About the Company
Founded in 2016, Foodtastic is already one of the largest restaurant companies in Canada. We have increased system sales in the last five years from less than $50mm to over $1B. Our current portfolio of 27 brands includes Milestones Grill & Bar, Second Cup Café, Pita Pit, Quesada, La Belle et La Boeuf, and Rôtisseries Benny.
We are passionate about building our franchisee partnerships and providing our guests with a memorable dining experience. Our growth would not be possible without our people's creativity, dedication, and entrepreneurship. We continue to build the team and always look for exceptional candidates to join Foodtastic.
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Kitchen Chef - Milestones, Kingston Ontario
*Must be available on weekends, 5-day schedule*
Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities:
- Provide leadership to achieve operations standards
- Run the kitchen, role model standards, and operating practices
- Accountable for maintaining standards of cleanliness, timing, uniform, grooming, organization, production, food quality, and consistency
- Accurately orders (using order mapping) and maintains inventory on all food products and monitors daily prep production of food
- Ensures high level of cleanliness and repair of kitchen by creating and supervising kitchen cleaning schedules and overseeing equipment maintenance
- Ensure food and service quality is to Milestones standard
- Manages labour efficiencies in the kitchen and compiles accurate and timely kitchen schedules
People Development – Teammate Engagement
- Supports and oversees ongoing development of all heart of house teammates
- Develop heart of house teammates by supporting the chef in regular one-on-one meetings, training and development, regular coaching, and performance improvement measures
- Foster a culture of recognition and rewards
- Support the chef in tactics that create an engaging environment where all teammates work together as a team, have fun and show genuine appreciation for our Guests and each other
Financial and Restaurant Profitability
- Accountable for achieving budgets in area of the kitchen for food cost and labour
- Ensure the restaurant achieves maximum levels of efficiency and profitability by operating within an assigned budget
- Subject matter expert on all restaurant systems to effectively coach managers and teammates on the use of system, tools and reporting
- Accurately utilize labour planning methods to control labour dollars
- Improve Profit and Loss performance of the assigned restaurant on a shift-by-shift basis
Restaurant Quality / Operational Excellence
- Maintain and enhance brand standards by ensuring systems and processes are in place including opening and closing procedures and the dress code policy
- Conduct weekly maintenance of facilities, equipment, interior, exterior, parking lot and grounds
- Meet and exceed required food quality and safety standards (i.e. receiving, holding, preparing, cooking and serving)
- Establish and maintain adherence to operating practices and procedures including safe food handling, Food Safety Logs, inventory counts and required product rotation (FIFO)
- Implement all new menu launches, and marketing programs as per brand specifications
Food / Restaurant Safety
- Comply with provincial legislation regarding employment standards, human rights, Health & Safety and WHMIS
- Develop and follow-up on all Food Safety action plans to ensure future compliance and reduce potential liability.
- Ensure compliance with respect to cash and inventory controls
Required Skills:
- 4+ years high volume kitchen management experience
- Supervisory and management skills
- Ability to write reports summarizing culinary statistics, highlighting opportunities and gains
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills for interacting with teammates and Guests
- Proficiency in business software applications
- Knowledge of Point of Sale Systems and Restaurant Back Office Software
- Effective numeric, analytical and organizational skills
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment while balancing competing priorities
The salary for this position is around 55k per year.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Kingston, ON K7L 1A3: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: In person
