Kitchen Manager - Des Moines

Summary/Objective 
The objective of our kitchen manager position is to oversee all aspects of daily kitchen operations, ensuring that all food preparation and cooking activities are carried out efficiently, safely, and in accordance with Big Grove's quality standards. This role involves managing culinary staff, assisting in inventory and ordering of supplies, and maintaining kitchen equipment and facilities. The kitchen manager is also responsible for ensuring food safety and cleanliness of the kitchen, managing food and labor costs, and working with our Chef de Cuisine and Sous Chefs to develop a menu that meets positive customer experience and profitability goals.

Core Values

Big Grove only hires and retains people who exhibit our core values. Our Core Values are:

1. Set the Tone

2. Thirst for Improvement

3. We Care

4. Practice Candor

5. Passion Driven

You will be given a culture deck explaining these core values. The goal of our culture deck is to show you who we are as a company, and then you can decide if you personally align with us and are excited to begin a career here.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Leadership and Staff Management:

1. Train and develop a high-performing kitchen staff, including cooks, prep cooks and dishwashers

2. Assign tasks, delegate responsibilities and provide feedback to ensure efficient kitchen operations.

3. Address disciplinary issues when necessary

4. Team management: Correct and compliant use of people and performance tools

5. Maintain routine kitchen maintenance and cleanliness

6. Ability to adapt and handle situations that may arise pertaining to the operation of the kitchen , including costs, productivity, scheduling and team health

7. Ensure enough staff are scheduled to cover shift needs and manage real time staffing based on business volume; run efficient labor

8. Assist in execution of events.

Food Quality and Consistency

1. Maintain Big Grove high food standards for food quality, ensuring all dishes are prepared according to recipe specifications.

2. Maintain safety and sanitation standards.

3. Creation, development, costing, description and execution of specials

4. Be an active contributor for new menu items and culinary technique while upholding Big Grove standards and expectations

Competencies

1. Team focused approach

2. Positive attitude

3. Safety minded

4. Thorough and efficient

5. Ability to Communicate