COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Soft Medicine Sanctuary is an Ayurvedic-based whole foods cafe in Sebastopol. We serve the cleanest food in town with 100% organic farm-to-table ingredients. Our cafe is a bar service environment with a small prep kitchen.

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a dedicated and creative kitchen manager to join our team to help improve and maintain our diverse menu offerings. You will be working with farmers, wholesale accounts, staff, and the public to maintain our inventory and check the ongoing quality of the food our prep chefs and staff are producing. We would like you to be available 4-5 days per week, approx. 30 hours, to come in person for quality control, checking inventory, and working with the staff to optimize the kitchen flow. Some of the hours will be on your own schedule: ordering goods, improving sourcing, and refining our menu.

Responsibilities would include:

Inventory Management

* Negotiate with vendors/suppliers 

* Maintain wholesale contracts and streamline sourcing

* Track price fluctuations and profitability by dish 

* Manage delivery receipt/pickup of ingredients or prepared foods from suppliers

* Monitor/organize stock and order new supplies and ingredients 

* Quality control

Staff Management

* Ensure floor staff is trained on preparing food/drinks

* Ensure proper handling, preparation, and storage of food/drink

Facility Management

* Improve kitchen flow and cleanliness

* Manage supplies stock

Qualifications:

* Be able to taste existing recipes for accuracy, and create your own recipes for public food service

* Work well with systems, record-keeping, and organization with spreadsheets

* Enjoy working with other staff members to optimize performance in the kitchen

* Have a flexible schedule to deal with changing demands in the kitchen

* Love organic, local, vegetarian food, superfoods, and herbal elixirs

* Love cooking and and making food as medicine

* A strong work ethic, communication skills, proactive, and reliable

* Restaurant, hospitality, or food service experience required

* Food manager certification required (can acquire after hiring)

* Basic knowledge of functional nutrition, ayurveda, and/or herbalism preferred

* Bonus points if you are a pro dessert chef, raw food chef or have worked with gourmet sauce creation.

Think you’ll be a great fit? Please send a résumé and a description of your relevant work experience, why you would like to be part of our team, and any questions to: info@softmedicinesanctuary.com

Look forward to hearing from you!

DEADLINE:

March 26, 2024