Dining Center Manager

Pepi Foods•Thomasville, GA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Pepi Companies, a family-owned corporation operating in 5 Southeast US states (Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana) for almost 40 years, is dedicated to its employees and customers. They are committed to providing a great place to work and offering custom solutions to the convenience market through great people, excellent service, and great tasting products. The company emphasizes core values of SERVE OTHERS, DO IT RIGHT, and BE THE BEST. The Dining Center Manager role involves leading, developing, and being accountable for all actions and people in the kitchen, ensuring the safety and well-being of team members, and providing superior customer service. This includes maintaining a clean, labeled, and organized kitchen, ensuring consistency in food quality, adherence to menu plans, purchasing guidelines, and portion controls. The manager will also oversee resource management, sustain operational metrics, plan menus, develop digital communications, conduct routine customer visits, and ensure adherence to all local, state, and federal regulations, including food safety and sanitation standards.

Requirements

Food Safety Manager Certification (e.g., ServSafe) required.
Minimum of 3 years of progressive experience in food service management.
Competency with Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, Sharepoint, and other applications.
Ability to quickly learn additional internal software as needed.

Nice To Haves

Associates Degree in Culinary Arts, Business Administration, etc. preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead, develop, and be accountable for all actions and people in your kitchen.
Hire and train great Pepi people that embody and foster Pepi culture.
Ensure the safety and well-being of all team members.
Provide superior customer service.
Ensure a clean, labeled, and organized kitchen always.
Ensure consistency in food quality, adherence to menu plans and purchasing guidelines, portion controls, and exceptional customer service.
Oversee all facets of resource management within the location: purchasing of food supplies to comply with the menu, preparation according to recipes, ensuring portion control, controlling inventory levels, etc.
Sustain and ensure that all operational metrics in food service are followed with sustainable success.
Menu planning and development of digital communications in our dining centers to our customers.
Develop routine visits with our customer contacts and generate action plans for continuous improvement and follow up on completed items.
Ensure adherence to all local, state, and federal regulations, including food safety, sanitation standards (e.g., HACCP), and workplace safety protocols.
Maintain a “Gold Standard” Kitchen – meaning it is always clean, labeled, and organized.

Benefits

Great Working Environment with emphasis on teamwork and great communication.
Great hours.
Incentive Package to include ASAP (Attendance, safety, attitude, and performance) bonus potential.
Health.
Dental.
Life.
Vacation.
PTO.
Holidays.
Great company to learn and grow with.