Kitchen Manager: Lead Team, Drive Quality & Free Meals

Ontario Trillium Foundation; Gaithersburg (MD); On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

Free meals

Health Insurance contribution

Holiday Pay

Weekly Pay

Job summary

Sardi's is looking for a Kitchen Manager to lead back-of-house operations, ensure food safety, and provide superb customer service. You will manage shifts, train staff, and control costs while maintaining high standards during busy service periods.

The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced restaurant environment, demonstrates strong leadership, and communicates clearly with team members and customers. This role offers competitive pay and benefits.

Responsibilities

• Customer-Service: Kitchen managers might have to interact with customers. Being friendly and courteous will help keep customers coming back
• Attention to Detail: Kitchen managers have to keep their eyes on a lot of elements: food standards, costs, safety, etc.
• Leadership: Kitchen managers must be leaders in the back of house, rallying their team during heavy shifts, resolving conflicts and getting the job done
• Management Skills: Kitchen managers not only deal with food, they also have to deal with costs, pricing, creating work schedules and more.
• Organizational Skills: Keeping work schedules, shipments, cleaning schedules and more organized is crucial to the job
• Problem-Solving Skills: Dealing with employee conflict, irate customers and wrong stock orders is part of a kitchen managers job. Being able to come up with a solution quickly is a needed skill
• Speaking Skills: Kitchen managers need to accurately and easily communicate standards and cooking methods to staff, give orders and speak with customers clearly
• Stamina: Kitchen managers can expect long days around hot cooking elements, much of it on their feet

Skills

Customer Service

Attention to Detail

Leadership

Management Skills

Organizational Skills

Problem-Solving

Speaking Skills

Stamina

Job description

Sardi's is looking for a Kitchen Manager to lead back-of-house operations, ensure food safety, and provide superb customer service. You will manage shifts, train staff, and control costs while maintaining high standards during busy service periods.

The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced restaurant environment, demonstrates strong leadership, and communicates clearly with team members and customers. This role offers competitive pay and benefits.