Chef De Cuisine
About The Position
Fairmont El San Juan Chef de Cuisine oversee kitchen operations in commercial and private kitchens. This role balances excellent cooking skills with managerial decision-making and team leadership, making it a great role for an experienced and accomplished kitchen professional. A chef de Cuisine may make key decisions about menu items, ingredients, and even personnel within a restaurant’s kitchen.Chefs de cuisine are frequently the highest-ranking chefs within a kitchen, and as a result play an important role in menu development, food preparation and presentation, and kitchen operations. This fast-paced role requires the chef de cuisine to constantly balance providing a high level of customer satisfaction with keeping the kitchen moving efficiently.
Requirements
- Chefs de cuisine are experienced cooks or sous chefs, and most kitchens look for individuals with at least six or seven years of food preparation experience for this role.
- Food Preparation Skills – Chefs de cuisine are kitchen experts who successfully prepare a wide variety of meals and dishes on time and with a high level of quality and presentation
- Menu Development – Because they often help develop a restaurant’s menu, chefs de cuisine have experience with creating new dishes and changing items based on ingredient availability and quality
- Team Leadership – Chefs de cuisine coordinate the activities of both kitchen and restaurant staff, so they are effective leaders who delegate tasks and oversee many employees
- Budgeting Skills – While making decisions regarding ingredient sourcing and purchasing, chefs de cuisine need to employ significant budgeting and financial management skills to ensure profitability
- Communication Skills – This role also requires excellent written and verbal communication to work with customers and kitchen staff as well as
Nice To Haves
- While there are no formal education requirements, chefs de cuisine can increase their job prospects by attending culinary school and achieving certification as executive chefs through the American Culinary Federation.
- Food and Beverage experience in related field preferred
- Hospitality experience preferred
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
