Sous Chef

The-Standard-High-Line; New York (NY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

401k

Paid time off

Employee meals

Employee discounts

Staff events

Job summary

The Standard High Line is seeking a Sous Chef to assist the Executive Sous Chef in daily kitchen operations at our iconic High Line restaurant and hotel. You will mentor staff, expedite service, manage inventory, and uphold top-quality food preparation in a fast-paced environment.

We value a strong team player with English communication skills, 2+ years cooking experience, and a passion for hospitality. Open availability and adherence to health and safety standards are essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years cooking experience; hotel/restaurant preferred.
• High standards of appearance, teamwork, and ownership.
• Good English communication; second language is a plus.
• ServSafe or equivalent certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Cooks food of high quality according to standard recipes.
• Manages multiple stations (hot and cold).
• Assists with preparation, presentation, and storage of all food items.
• Prepares in advance food, beverages, materials and equipment for service.
• Maintains knowledge of menus, ingredients and specials.
• Operates opening/closing duties and side work checks.
• Keeps stations clean and organized during shifts.
• Supports team members and communicates effectively with management.
• Alerts management to shortages and safety concerns.
• Participates in training of new team members.

Skills

Culinary skills

Team player

English communication

Knife skills

Education

High School Diploma

Job description

Company Background

The Standard is one of the most culturally engaged hotels in the world. Hotels with real cultural life, an inclusive spirit, and a true creative attitude. A destination layered with events and amusements that leave you with an uplifted feeling.

Mission Statement

To create experience by embracing and empowering team members, collaborators, and guests, who choose to call The Standard home.

Our Purpose

The Standard’s commitment is to be an anchor for each neighborhood in which we reside as well as a platform for culture and creativity. Bringing people together in its spaces to interact with each other in genuine ways.

Our promise is to ensure that a stay is an experience and that memory means making friends and having stories to tell. To understand why it exists is to understand that The Standard, is a platform for people to meet, to engage, to learn, to dine, to sleep, to dance, hideaway, make-believe, and do so whilst being yourself and having fun doing it.

We think of ourselves as a stage, not just a hotel. Here, you can become whomever you like, even if for just a night. Here, you will meet new friends, find new challenges, eat new food, stay up late, sleep in later, and at times, never even leave the property. We are unapologetically comfortable with disrupting expectations. It’s WHO WE ARE!

#StandardFamily

Job Title: Sous Chef

Department: Food and Beverage

Location: The Standard, High Line

Reporting to: Executive Chef, CDC, Director, Food and Beverage

Responsible for: Kitchen staff

Job Purpose: Assist Executive Sous Chef in daily operations, including mentoring and coaching, expediting, ordering, inventory, butchering, organizing, and maintaining a clean, sanitary, and tidy kitchen.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Cooks food of high quality according to standard recipes.
• Manages multiple cold and hot stations
• Assists with the preparation, presentation, decoration and storage of all food items.
• Prepares in advance food, beverage, material and equipment needed for the service
• Have a thorough knowledge of menus, ingredients, out of stock items and current specials in all applicable venues
• Perform opening and closing duties according to established side work checklist
• Works in a clean in an organized manner keeping assigned stations and service areas maintained during shifts
• Assists other team members as needed, both with and without the direction of management
• Maintains positive and effective communication with team members and managers regarding all relevant information, special considerations and/or concerns pertaining to our members
• Re-stocks items and supplies as needed and alerts management of shortages
• Communicates health and/or safety concerns/violations immediately to the management
• Attends all informational meetings
• Understand all policies, procedures, standards, specifications, guidelines and training programs
• Assume 100% responsibility for the quality of food cooked
• Assists in providing training opportunities for team new members.
• Performs all other related duties as assigned
• Assist in the investigation of member complaints regarding food quality and service

Essential:

• Minimum of 2 years of cooking experience preferred
• Experience in a hotel or restaurant preferred
• Maintain high standards of personal appearance and grooming
• A strong team player who supports their team and embraces ownership, accountability, and responsibility for the team’s work
• Good oral and written communication skills in English, second language is a plus
• Detail oriented, good prioritization and follow up skills
• Basic understanding of Health and Safety, Food Hygiene and Employment Legislation, and demonstrated knife skills and safe food handling practices preferred.
• Open availability and flexibility to work according to the needs of the business
• SERV Safe or equivalent certification preferred
• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Culinary arts or a related field education or experience preferred

Compensation and Benefits

• $70k - 75k annual salary range
• Excellent and Affordable Health care coverage
• Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, Pet Insurance
• 401k with Company to match after 1 year
• Up to 104 hours PTO, 56 hours - Paid Protected Time Off (Sick), 32 hours - Unpaid Protected Time Off, 20 hours Paid Prenatal Leave
• 401k - Company matching up to 2% after 1 year
• Employee Discounts on Rooms, F&B, Retail, and The Standard Marketplace
• Employee Meals, Employee Referral Program, Commuter Discounts
• Regular fun staff events and celebrations!

Source: Hospitality Online