Sous Chef (Fine Dining)

Truluck’s Ocean’s Finest Seafood & Crab; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Truluck's DC is seeking a Professional Fine Dining Sous Chef to join our culinary team. You will support the Chef in leading daily kitchen operations, ensuring consistent quality and service in a high-volume setting.

The ideal candidate brings at least five years of culinary experience, expertise in seafood and steak, and a track record of coaching staff while upholding our standards of professionalism, accountability, and teamwork.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years of culinary experience.
• Experience in preparing culinary products.
• Coaching culinary staff.
• Experience cooking in high-volume environments.
• Ideal candidate has worked in a fine dining steak and seafood kitchen.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Chef in leading culinary operations.
• Follow recipes and kitchen systems.
• Coach and develop culinary staff.
• Maintain professionalism, accountability, and teamwork.
• Aim for advancement to executive chef.

Skills

Culinary experience

Staff coaching

High-volume cooking

Fine dining

Job description

Since Opening Our Doors In 1992, We Have Dedicated Ourselves To Creating Exhilarating Moments And Enduring Memories. To Do So, We Bring Our Core Values To Your Table Every Day

Job Details

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Who We Are

Since Opening Our Doors In 1992, We Have Dedicated Ourselves To Creating Exhilarating Moments And Enduring Memories. To Do So, We Bring Our Core Values To Your Table Every Day

Culinary Excellence, Sustainable Seafood, Southern Hospitality, Company Culture, and Philanthropy are what make Truluck's, Truluck's.

Our professional sous chefs help us deliver these core values to our guests and communities daily.

Our mission is simple.

We are here to make good things happen for other people.

Who are you?

We are currently seeking Professional Fine Dining Sous Chef candidates who will dedicate themselves to this purpose in joining our exceptional team of culinary professionals at our Truluck's DC location. Successful candidates will have a minimum of five (5) years' previous culinary experience and experience in preparing culinary products, coaching members of the culinary staff and cooking in high-volume environments. The Sous Chef assists the Chef in the overall leadership of the culinary functions. In addition to this, successful candidates must possess the ability to follow all recipes and systems and have a proven history of professionalism, accountability, and team commitment. The ideal candidate will have worked in a similar fine dining steak and seafood kitchen. We are looking for enthusiastic chefs with the heart of a great kitchen manager. Someone who has the drive to be an executive chef in the future. If this sounds like you, we would like to meet you!

Why us?

Truluck's puts their employees and quality first. At Truluck's, we make choices that honor the plate, the palate, and the planet. We practice TRU Sustainability, by maintaining an unwavering commitment to serving the highest-quality sustainable seafood. We will never serve endangered, overfished species, and we always follow Ocean Conservancy guidelines. Our Florida Stone Crab is captured by our team of professional crabbers, and our produce is sourced from local growers whenever possible.