Velvet Taco is Hiring Immediately
for Regional Culinary Manager

• Qualified candidates must have 2 years Restaurant Management experience.
• Candidates must have 2 years of Culinary/Kitchen Management experience.
• We prefer 2 years of new restaurant opening experience.

The Regional Culinary Manager reports directly to the Director of Operations with a “dotted-line” to the Director of Culinary at the RSO. Primary responsibilities include creating goals and actions plans with DO to help restaurants meet financial and non-financial results and working with Culinary Department on culinary focused training initiatives to continuously improve currently processes. The Regional Culinary Manager is responsible for acting as a brand guardian to ensure culinary consistency and communication at the restaurant level is accomplished and committed to making sure the restaurants are supported and profitable.

Recently certified by QSR magazine as one of the “Best Brands to Work For”, this person must have a “people first” approach to working with their Teams to maintain a culture that is inclusive, developmental, & Kick Ass!

Regional Culinary Manager Benefits:

• 20% of base salary performance bonus paid annually
• Competitive Salary
• Medical, Dental and Vision after 30 days
• Paid Time Off
• 401(K)
• Leadership and Career Development Opportunities & Programs
• Casual work attire
• FREE TACOS!

Regional Culinary Manager Duties:

• Restaurant Support: Creates goals and action plans with Director of Ops to ensure restaurants are at or above company standards on food cost, ticket times, and sanitation scores. Supports Culinary and Purchasing Departments in communicating food shortages, outages, etc. to restaurants.
• Culinary Manager AOO Support: Partners with GMs on development for Culinary Manager at each restaurant to ensure they are successful and driving the brand forward. Including identifying new trainers, line check and food quality action planning and follow up, Heart of House development and scheduling, regular maintenance of inventory sheets, order guides, and prep sheets.
• MIT Development: Builds relationship with MITs, spends at least 5 days with them during their training, conducting skillouts, and follow up post certification.
• New Restaurant Openings: Provides support leading up to NRO, ordering smallwares, assisting with kitchen setup, setups order guides and prep sheets, ensure food quality, food safety and sanitation is taught and followed. Oversee the Heart of House for food quality, recipe adherence, food safety, Taco builds/specs, line checks, trainer appraisals, etc. Provides notes post-NRO to help improve processes.
• Culinary Initiatives: Partners with RSO to create, implement, test and/or follow up with culinary initiatives including menu rollouts, menu tests, equipment tests, etc.

Additional Requirements:

• Aligns with Velvet Taco’s culture
• Restaurant Management experience required
• Training Manager and/or MIT development preferred
• Travel Requirements: Expected to have presence in restaurants (80% of time)
• Educational Requirements: Undergraduate degree

At Velvet Taco, we celebrate individuality! We are an equal opportunity employer and try to select and retain the best Team Members and Managers based on their job-related qualifications regardless of race, color, creed, sex, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or medical condition.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Food provided
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Experience level:

• 2 years

Shift:

• Day shift
• Evening shift
• Morning shift
• Night shift

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus opportunities
• Performance bonus

Weekly day range:

• Monday to Friday
• Weekends as needed

Work setting:

• Casual dining restaurant

Experience:

• high-volume (fast casual/full serve) management: 2 years (Required)
• culinary/kitchen management: 2 years (Required)

Work Location: In person