Executive Sous Chef - Polished Steakhouse Brand

Executive Sous Chef Fine Dining Steakhouse

We are seeking a talented Executive Sous Chef to join a high-growth fine dining steakhouse company known for exceptional food quality, high standards, and outstanding hospitality.

This is an excellent opportunity for a chef who wants to grow their career, develop their leadership skills, and position themselves for future Executive Chef opportunities.

What Were Looking For

The ideal candidate is a hands-on culinary leader who is passionate about great food, developing people, and operational excellence.

You will work closely with the Executive Chef to lead the culinary team, maintain exceptional standards, and create a kitchen culture built around accountability, teamwork, respect, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Help lead all aspects of daily kitchen operations
• Maintain exceptional standards for food quality, consistency, presentation, and execution
• Coach, train, and develop culinary team members
• Support hiring, onboarding, scheduling, and team development
• Maintain strong food safety, sanitation, and cleanliness standards
• Assist with food cost, inventory, purchasing, and labor management
• Lead by example during high-volume service
• Build a positive, professional, people-first kitchen culture
• Partner with the Executive Chef to continuously improve culinary execution

Ideal Background

• Leadership experience in fine dining, upscale steakhouse, or high-end polished casual restaurants
• Strong knowledge of steaks, proteins, seafood, sauces, and scratch cooking
• Experience leading high-volume, high-standard kitchen operations
• Strong organizational and communication skills
• Passion for coaching and developing culinary talent
• High standards with exceptional attention to detail
• Desire to grow into an Executive Chef or senior culinary leadership role

Why Join Us?

This is more than an Executive Sous Chef position. It is an opportunity to join a growing restaurant company that invests in its people and promotes culinary talent from within.

If you are a driven culinary leader who takes pride in exceptional food, high standards, developing people, and creating memorable guest experiences, we would love to speak with you.

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Superior Talent Source is a niche search agency specializing in executive placement nationwide with leading restaurants, hotels country clubs and resorts across the United States.

Our recruiters have decades of experience in recruiting for the Hospitality industry, and they have built up an excellent network of relationships as well as a deep understanding of the marketplace.

Our recruiter's expertise together with our approach is focused on finding the right fit for both candidate and client, whilst delivering a quality service.

Our success is built on investing in relationships and doing it the right way. Going beyond phone calls and e-mails, taking the time to attend conferences, being active members of professional groups and social media. Getting to know clients and candidates on a personal level and supporting and nurturing the relationships we establish.

Lastly, we know what it takes and how to match the right candidate to the right client.