Kitchen Team Lead

Job Summary 

The Kitchen Team Leader takes on a first level leadership role within the store. They are responsible for supervising, managing and motivating staff members while driving the kitchen flow and the station execution during shifts. Team Leaders ensure guest satisfaction through training employees properly, adhering to company policy, and acting as quality control.

Job Duties & Responsibilities 

• Ensure that all food and products are fresh and consistently prepared and served according to the company recipes, portioning, cooking and serving standards.
• Drive and motivate the team in a positive manner.
• Act with integrity and honesty while promoting Hemingway’s culture.
• Performance manage kitchen staff as appropriate and partner with management team for any final decisions. 
• Provide and oversee the training and cross-training of new kitchen staff. 
• Provide and oversee the training for safe operation of all kitchen equipment, utensil cleanliness and sanitation practices.
• Must be proficient in all areas of the kitchen to fill in where needed to ensure guest service standards and efficient operations. 
• Must be proficient in opening and closing the kitchen with efficiency.
• Prepare all required paperwork, including forms, checklists, reports and schedules in an organized and timely manner.
• Ensure that all equipment is kept clean and kept in excellent working condition through personal inspection and by following the company’s preventative maintenance procedures.
• Quality control: ensure all food and service are up to Hemingway’s standards of quality, consistency, and timeliness.
• Control food cost and usage by following proper requisition of products from storage areas, product storage procedures, proper rotation standard recipes and waste control procedures.
• Be knowledgeable and support all restaurant policies. 
• Responsible for maintaining appropriate cleaning schedules for kitchen floors, mats, walls, hoods, other equipment, food storage areas and clean as you go training.   
• Check and maintain proper food holding and refrigeration temperature control points.
• Responsible for daily interaction and communication via our portal.
• Assist with labor management costs.
• Proficient at line checks.
• Understand management bonus structure and how your decisions and actions affect it.
• Cross-trained FOH set-up and server sectioning
• Cross-trained server checkouts and money handling
• Cross-trained Toast Comps, Promos, Credit Card batch settlements 
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications 

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Proficient in Microsoft Office/ Excel and/or Google sheets
• Must be able to communicate clearly with managers, kitchen and dining room staff and guests.
• Manager Food Handler certification, required
• Must have flexible and open availability
• Ability to direct, support, and drive excellence
• Ability to maintain all kitchen standards
• Highly motivated and organized.
• Certified in all kitchen positions 

Physical Requirements

• Some lifting and the movement of moderate loads require a 50-pound lifting requirement.
• Responsible for utilizing office equipment. The effective operation of equipment requires the use of all limbs, fingers and the ability to see.
• Spends approximately 80% of his/her time standing and walking swiftly, therefore, he/she must have the ability to bend, stoop, kneel, and move freely using all limbs and seeing at close/long distances.
• Attend meetings, conferences, workshops, etc. as well as visit LDE locations, off site locations, etc.; therefore, he/she must be able to travel autonomously, possibly to other geographical locations.
• Expectation to work a 40 -hours work week and have full availability including weekends, holidays and special events.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.