Sous Chefs- Kitchen Manager - Dining Room Manager

Are you an ambitious hospitality professional ready to take the next step in your career? Our recruitment firm represents several of the premier hospitality groups in Columbus. These organizations are known for their award-winning culinary programs, vibrant cultures, and industry-leading guest experiences.

Positions: Hospitality Manager (Kitchen manager/ Sous chefs / Front of house managers
Location: Columbus, OH (Short North, Downtown, Easton, and surrounding areas)
Client Types: Elite Scratch Kitchens, Casual and Upscale Casual Concepts
Compensation: Competitive Base Salary Performance Bonuses Premium Benefits Packages

About the Opportunity

We are currently building a talent pipeline of elite leaders for multiple open roles. Based on your specific expertise, leadership style, and career goals, we will align you with the perfect groups: Kitchen manager, sous chefs, and front of house managers.

Key Areas of Placement

Back-of-House Track (Sous Chef / Kitchen Manager)

• Culinary Standards: Direct daily high-volume scratch kitchen operations, ensuring uncompromising food quality, plating, and consistency.
• Cost Controls: Take ownership of food costs, vendor ordering, waste logs, and inventory management to maximize profitability.
• Team Leadership: Train, schedule, and inspire a diverse BOH team (line cooks, prep, dish) to maintain a highly collaborative workspace.
• Compliance: Ensure 100% compliance with Columbus Public Health standards, sanitation protocols, and workplace safety guidelines

Front-of-House Track (Service Managers)

• Guest Relations: Act as the face of the business on the floor, building neighborhood rapport and swiftly resolving guest complaints with grace.
• FOH Excellence: Lead daily service shifts, optimize seating grids, and manage high-volume bar and beverage programs.
• Financial Oversight: Manage controllable expenses, optimize labor schedules, handle daily cash drops, and track shift-level P&L data.
• Culture & Retention: Recruit, onboard, and continuously train front-of-house staff (servers, bartenders, hosts) to lower turnover and elevate service.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Proven Track Record: 2 years of management experience in a high-volume hospitality environment ($3M–$6M annual revenue preferred).
• Leadership Style: Hands-on leader who coaches in the moment, leads by example, and thrives in high-stress, fast-paced situations.
• Business Acumen: Solid understanding of restaurant financial metrics (prime costs, labor percentages, margin management).
• Certifications: Current ServSafe Manager certification.
• Availability: Flexibility to work a dynamic hospitality schedule, including late nights, weekends, and holidays

What Our Premier Clients Offer

Because we partner exclusively with top-tier hospitality groups, our clients offer highly competitive packages designed to attract and retain the best talent in Ohio:

• Premium base salaries tailored to your experience level
• Achievable monthly or quarterly bonus structures tied to realistic KPIs
• Top-tier medical, dental, and vision insurance options
• 401(k) retirement plans (many with generous company matching)
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) and quality-of-life scheduling initiatives
• Exceptional dining discounts across diverse, multi-concept portfolios
• Clear, documented pathways to General Manager and Executive Chef positions

If you're passionate about hospitality, leadership, and creating exceptional guest experiences, we'd love to hear from you. Join a team that values energy, teamwork, and excellence every day. Apply today!

Cindy Broome

Gecko Hospitality - Central OH/Tennessee

Restaurant Executive Recruiter

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Since 2000, Gecko Hospitality and its dedicated Franchise Partners and Recruiters throughout the United States have been pioneers in the hospitality recruiting industry. The value that Gecko Hospitality provides to its Clientele is evident in the advanced networking and technology skills our professional recruiters possess in identifying qualified restaurant professionals. Voted Forbes best recruitment firm since 2018.

Our national network consists of 37 regional offices that are driven to meet the needs of the hospitality industry. In addition, Gecko Hospitality offers the largest selection of hospitality jobs, restaurant jobs, hotel jobs, resort jobs and club management jobs online. Our specialized, hospitality-focused team covers all 50 states and Canada with over 80 Franchise Partners and recruiters. Gecko Hospitality was founded on providing the finest restaurant jobs nationwide to the highest performing candidates. More importantly, our Franchise Partners and recruiters began their careers in hospitality and there is no finer training ground for recruiting than real life experience.

At Gecko Hospitality, we are passionate about making sure that every member of our recruiting team is familiar with our philosophies. In the same way that we learn about people when developing relationships and friendships, we want our people to have a sense of Gecko Hospitality's values and insight into our company's "personality." With this insight comes a greater understanding of how values "fit" with Gecko Hospitality's values, why we do things the way we do as well as providing a basis for making decisions that are appropriate to those values. We all play a part in keeping these traditions and philosophies alive.

We want every member of our recruiting team to understand that we are only as good as how well we follow these philosophies on an every day basis. Gecko Hospitality is all about achieving results by being motivated. This motivation to achieve results comes from within. No one can motivate us, nor can we motivate anyone else. As leaders, all that we can do is provide an environment where people motivate themselves to achieve mutually beneficial goals. Along with this philosophy, each team member possesses the following traits for which we are proud: honesty, integrity, desire, determination, listening skills, rapid learning, responding in a timely manner, effective communication skills, thoroughness, empathy, compassion, and most of all we want every team member to have a strong work ethic that motivates them to produce superior results both for our candidates and for our Clients.

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