Serving Lancaster County Since 1929!

Few companies can claim over 95 years in business, but we can at Thomas E. Strauss, Inc. We owe our ongoing success to our exceptional staff and solid management team who are dedicated to an exceptional guest experience.

Here is your opportunity to be part of a dedicated team at Thomas E. Strauss, Inc.

Our business is booming, and we are seeking outstanding team members who take pride in their work, and ownership of the position to ensure we are living up to our high standards and providing a friendly guest experience.

What we expect from you:

• A friendly, professional demeanor toward coworkers and guests – after all, our mission is to make people feel valued. We expect that of you, and we do our best to make YOU feel valued as well!
• Self-starter who owns the responsibilities of the role.
• A commitment to show up on time for every shift - ready to work hard alongside your team members.
• Your dedication to our values of diversity, integrity, excellence, accountability, community, and especially your willingness to have FUN!

Here’s what we offer to you:

• Competitive pay.
• Excellent benefit package and employee perks.
• Ability to earn unlimited employee referral bonuses.
• Ability to work in other business units within the hospitality group to make extra cash or gain new work experience. The more you know, the more you grow!
• A “work-to-live” not a “live-to-work” workplace!

Our Mission: Make people feel valued.

Our Values: Diversity, Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, Community and FUN!

Thomas E. Strauss, Inc., is a local family-owned hospitality group. Our businesses include Miller’s Smorgasbord, Miller’s Bakery, The Quilt Shop at Miller’s, Locally Made Food Shop, Anna’s Gifts & Sundries, Plain & Fancy Farm, AmishView Inn and Suites, Smokehouse BBQ and Brews, and Plain & Fancy Country Store.

Position Summary

The Breakfast Kitchen Supervisor is responsible to assist the Breakfast Kitchen Manager with ensuring that the kitchen team provides an outstanding guest experience by delivering great service and products in a clean, healthy and safe environment at this award-winning hotel. The Breakfast Kitchen Supervisor will possess the ability to support the Breakfast Kitchen Manager in training, developing, coaching and retraining employees while maintaining a healthy culture and keeping morale high by using accountability, fairness and consistency. The Breakfast Kitchen Supervisor assists in overseeing compliance to established policies, procedures, and guidelines. The Breakfast Kitchen Supervisor assists the Breakfast Kitchen Manager with catering events, with ordering products and with maintaining cost and labor effective kitchen operations.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Exhibits exemplary behavior in accordance with company core values and purpose.
• Work 5-6 shifts per week, approximately 5:30am - 1:30pm on weekdays and weekends, available holidays, occasional evening times required.
• Interact with our guests to help our team provide an outstanding breakfast experience.
• Open breakfast, cook and maintain food items on buffet including light grill work.
• Operate our small dish machine and help out as needed with general duties and cleanup in the kitchen and dining room.
• Follow food safety procedures as implemented by management and ServSafe standards.
• Responsible to assist with catering events at the hotel, some required evening events.
• Support Kitchen Manager with coaching and training fellow team members where needed. Help ensure that they have a full and accurate understanding of kitchen policies and procedures.
• Hold team members accountable to policies, procedures, and standards through coaching, leading by example and performance management as needed.
• Assist with ordering products and communicating with vendors with kitchen needs.

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

• Minimum of two years leadership experience in restaurant/hospitality
• ServSafe Certified
• "Safety First" focus
• Excellent people skills with the ability to interact with guests, all levels of management and employees
• Understanding of how to meet employees where they are at while maintaining positive company culture, policies and company core purpose and core values in the workplace
• Able to follow and give directions and communicate with both guests and coworkers effectively
• Display a positive and professional attitude at all times
• Deliver a high quality of work to ensure we are providing top notch service
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to help coordinate catering events at the hotel
• Appropriate Time Management
• Strong Command of the English Language

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.
While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands or fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. The employee must be able to withstand heat in the kitchen for up to 8 hours. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to high.

Note

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbents will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” relationship.
Updated 05/06/2024