What are the responsibilities and job description for the Kitchen Manager position at RL Jordan?
Kitchen Manager Job Description
- Coordinate and supervise the kitchen employees according to food safety standards.
- Ensure compliance with state, federal, and local food handling requirements and standards.
- Provide direction to kitchen employees, ensuring the execution of all employee duties.
- Set regular cleaning standards and verify that the staff is maintaining sanitation and safety standards
- Ensure compliance with health and fire department regulations
- Order all food and supplies for the kitchen
- Check in kitchen vendors by counting each item and ensuring all items are correct
- Supervise food prep and cooking times.
- Check food temperatures (165-degree cook temp & 135-degree hold temp)
- Maintain correct portion sizes.
- Quality Control: Make sure items are dated & labeled correctly by Dhec standards, using FIFO rule (first in first out)
- Ensure food products are stored in compliance with safety practices.
- Perform weekly inventory counts
- Control waste by tracking waste
- Train all kitchen employees on food prep, procedures, and managing inventory.
- Drive customer satisfaction through quality control and efficiency.
- Must be knowledgeable of all kitchen operations and safety procedures,
- Knowledge of first aid (in case of burns & cuts)
- Knowledge of how to fill out the company incident report.
- Maintain high-performance standards.
- Supervise, coach, and motivate kitchen employees.
- Recruit, interview & complete New Hire paperwork for all kitchen employees.
- Create weekly schedules and ensure staff is clocking in correctly for the kitchen
- A positive leader with excellent communication skills.
- Must have excellent customer service skills.
- Must pass ServSafe Certification.
- Must follow company money-handling procedures
- Ensure food equipment is clean and in good working order (log in work orders as needed).
- Keep good communication with the kitchen supervisor/district manager.
- Feed your warmers/staging your food in warmers/ make less more often
- Making daily build to's