Executive Chef

National Meal Plan Company delivering healthy and delicious food nationally looking for and experienced culinary professional to help our rapid growth, privately held company focused on delicious food, healthy living and longevity. We offer a great working environment with health-minded people that have great attitudes. We focus on a positive rewarding workplace and top quality product.

If this appeals to you please forward your resume for consideration.

Summary of Position:

The Executive Chef is responsible for all food production; menu development, food purchase specifications and ensuring all recipes are standardly followed. Maintaining and monitoring of food and labor budgets for the department as well as staff supervision. Furthermore the Executive Chef is responsible for maintaining the highest professional food quality and hygiene standards throughout the operation

Duties & Responsibilities:

Schedules and coordinates the work of chefs, cooks and other kitchen employees to ensure that food preparation is precise and within budgeted labor cost goals
Ensures that high standards of hygiene, cleanliness and safety are maintained throughout all kitchen areas at all times
Evaluates food products to ensure that company quality standards are consistently attained
Should be able to project annual food, labor, and other costs as well as monitors actual financial results and take corrective action as necessary to ensure that financial targets are met.
Establishes and maintains controls to minimize food waste and theft
Approves the requisition and purchase of products and other necessary food supplies
Implements measures to minimize food costs and exercises portion control for all items served
Helps develop policies and procedures to enhance and measure quality; continually updating written policies and procedures to incorporate techniques, equipment and terminology
Maintains a high level of service principles in accordance with established standards
Establishes and maintains a regular cleaning and maintenance schedule for all kitchen areas and kitchen equipment
Interviews, selects, trains, supervises, counsels and disciplines all employees in the department
Develops, maintains & trains a professional work force
Must be accessible during business hours

Skills:

Demonstrates an ability to produce a high volume of work accurately and completed in a timely manner
Demonstrates an ability to interact positively with supervisors, management, and co-workers
Demonstrates the ability to delegate work accordingly to ensure the highest quality product is always produced
Shows the ability to analyze and interpret general business publications, technical procedures, manuals and statutory regulations
Demonstrates the ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from other managers, suppliers and employees

Physical Demands and Other Requirements:

Candidate should have a degree in Culinary Arts and at least 5 years of experience as an Executive Chef
Working knowledge of MS Office including (Word, Excel)
Regularly required to work in a refrigerated and/or freezer cooler
Regularly required to stand for 8 or more hours
Regularly required to use hands
Occasionally required to lift up to 50 pounds.
Regularly required to bend down to floor level or reach above eye level
Must have reliable transportation
Must have reliable means of communication

We want to change the way America thinks about healthy eating. Start by taking all of the time for planning, shopping and prep out of your week. Already, you’ve got more time to work out, train or just keep up with your active lifestyle. Never mind researching your meals, controlling your caloric content, balancing proteins, vegetables and complex carbohydrates or learning the skills needed to expertly cook and season your food. Instead, choose from hundreds of delicious dishes on our Fresh Meal Plan menu with all the nutritional planning done for you. Consider Fresh your weekly meal planner.

Forget about the expense of sourcing the finest, freshest gourmet ingredients with perfect portions to avoid wasted leftovers or repeating the same dish over and over again. We do it all for you, saving you time and money. With us as your official meal plan, you’ll enjoy fresh, healthy gourmet food delivered right to your door. It’s that simple.

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