Pizza Executive Chef

Flour + Water Hospitality Group; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dining discounts

Medical, dental, 401k benefits

Job summary

Flour + Water Hospitality Group is seeking an exceptional Pizza Executive Chef to lead culinary vision and back-of-house operations across our pizza restaurants, commissary, frozen production program, catering, and events.

You’ll shape culinary direction, oversee multiple kitchens, and build scalable production systems while mentoring BOH teams and ensuring top quality and compliance.

Qualifications

• Proven multi-unit culinary leadership experience.
• Deep knowledge of pizza, menu development and operations.
• Experience with commissary or large-scale production.
• Strong food costing, purchasing, inventory, labor, and financial skills.
• Knowledge of HACCP, food safety, sanitation, and regulatory compliance.
• Excellent communication, organization and leadership skills.
• A calm, solutions-oriented approach in high-pressure environments.
• A genuine passion for hospitality, education, quality, and developing people.
• Familiarity with systems such as Toast, MarginEdge, Excel/Google Workspace, Resy, DoorDash, Ctuit, Slack, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Set culinary direction, develop menus, and drive new product development across multiple locations.
• Oversee restaurant kitchens, commissary operations, frozen/retail production, catering, and events.
• Build scalable systems for recipes, production, costing, purchasing, inventory, and quality control.
• Lead commissary and frozen production, including forecasting, yields, packaging, labeling, shelf life, and cold-chain standards.
• Own food cost, labor, inventory, purchasing, and operational performance alongside leadership.
• Hire, mentor, and develop BOH chefs, managers, and kitchen teams.
• Create a positive, accountable, education-driven kitchen culture.
• Ensure compliance with food safety, sanitation, HACCP, USDA, and health department standards.
• Lead culinary training, events, collaborations, and brand-facing opportunities.
• Partner with leadership on future growth, new locations, and the continued development of our frozen/CPG business.

Skills

Multi-unit leadership

Pizza expertise

Menu development

Cost control

Forecasting / production planning

Food cost management

Regulatory compliance

Leadership & mentorship

Systems familiarity

Education

Culinary leadership experience

Tools

Toast

MarginEdge

Excel/Google Workspace

Resy

DoorDash

Ctuit

Slack

Job description

Schedule: Full-time, salaried | 5 shifts/week | Approximately 50–60 hours/week

Flour+Water Hospitality Group is a family of businesses which includes the original Flour+Water restaurant, Flour + Water Pizzeria and Pizza Shops, Flour+Water Pasta Shop, and Penny Roma - as well as Flour+Water Foods - our line of frozen pizza and retail pasta. We pride ourselves on having a great culture and unique, diverse workforce, and highly encourage BIPOC and LGBTQ+ to apply. We offer excellent benefits including medical, dental, 401k and dining discounts.

We’re looking for an exceptional Pizza Executive Chef to lead the culinary vision and back-of-house operations across our pizza restaurants, commissary, frozen production program, catering, and special events.

This is a high-impact leadership role for a chef who thrives at the intersection of great food, strong teams, operational excellence, and scalable systems. You’ll work closely with our culinary, operations, production, and ownership teams to ensure every kitchen consistently delivers the quality and identity our guests expect.

What You’ll Lead

• -Set culinary direction, develop menus, and drive new product development across multiple locations.
• -Oversee restaurant kitchens, commissary operations, frozen/retail production, catering, and events.
• -Build scalable systems for recipes, production, costing, purchasing, inventory, and quality control.
• -Lead commissary and frozen production, including forecasting, yields, packaging, labeling, shelf life, and cold-chain standards.
• -Own food cost, labor, inventory, purchasing, and operational performance alongside leadership.
• -Hire, mentor, and develop BOH chefs, managers, and kitchen teams.
• -Create a positive, accountable, education-driven kitchen culture.
• -Ensure compliance with food safety, sanitation, HACCP, USDA, and health department standards.
• -Lead culinary training, events, collaborations, and brand-facing opportunities.
• -Partner with leadership on future growth, new locations, and the continued development of our frozen/CPG business.

What We’re Looking For

You’re an experienced culinary leader with strong multi-unit and production experience. You know how to protect culinary standards while building systems that work at scale. You’re equally comfortable developing a menu, reviewing a P&L, coaching a chef, troubleshooting production, or jumping into a kitchen when needed.

You bring

• -Proven multi-unit culinary leadership experience.
• -Deep knowledge of pizza, menu development, seasonality, and culinary operations.
• -Experience with commissary or large-scale food production.
• -Strong food costing, purchasing, inventory, labor, and financial skills.
• -Knowledge of HACCP, food safety, sanitation, and regulatory compliance.
• -Excellent communication, organization, and leadership skills.
• -A calm, solutions-oriented approach in high-pressure environments.
• -A genuine passion for hospitality, education, quality, and developing people.
• -Familiarity with systems such as Toast, MarginEdge, Excel/Google Workspace, Resy, DoorDash, Ctuit, Slack, or similar platforms.

The Opportunity

This is a chance to shape the culinary future of a growing Bay Area pizza group—from the restaurant kitchen to the commissary, frozen products, events, and beyond.

If you’re a hands‑on culinary leader who believes great pizza starts with great systems and great people, we’d love to meet you.

We are passionate about doing great work, producing great products, taking care of our employees, and doing it right.

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment regardless of a person's actual or perceived race, color, ancestry, national origin, place of birth, sex, age, religion, creed, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, weight, or height. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.