Director of Food & Hospitality

T&J Travel Centers•Midland, TX

5d•Onsite

About The Position

About T&J Travel Centers At T&J Travel Centers, we're redefining what a travel center can be: a place where guests experience genuine hospitality, not just convenience. We combine craveable food, spotless facilities, and friendly local service that feels like home. We're a fast-growing, family-run company built on strong values and servant leadership. We're looking for a Director of Food & Hospitality who lives craveable food, leads humbly, stays hungry, and helps every kitchen deliver the same great meal every shift. MISSION OF THE ROLE Own the food: every item that comes out of any T&J kitchen, every guest's experience at Tarzan Grill, and a grab-and-go program built on deli offerings made fresh in-house every day.

Requirements

Five or more years in multi-unit food operations, at director or area manager level
Experience running a kitchen that cooks from raw product
Recipe, SOP and food cost systems you have built yourself

Nice To Haves

Culinary degree or formal culinary education
Experience as a head chef, including menu design at a busy fast casual
Bilingual, English and Spanish. This would be a big advantage in this role
Experience building teams
A record of humble leadership

Responsibilities

Hold every kitchen to the same standard for quality, portion and ticket time, and review the numbers weekly
Write the spec for every menu item and build the brand book a new store can open from
Own kitchen training: the curriculum, station certification, and follow-up to make sure it sticks
Build and coach a bench of Kitchen Managers who are trained and ready to step up
Launch and run the grab-and-go deli at every store, with fresh product in the case from open to close
Protect the menu: new items earn their place on speed and quality, and come off if they slip