Kitchen Manager

Hotspot Convenience Store (RL Jordan) • Laurens, SC

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About The Position

The Kitchen Manager coordinates and supervises kitchen employees while ensuring food safety, sanitation, quality, and efficient kitchen operations. The role oversees food preparation and cooking, inventory and ordering, equipment condition, employee training and performance, scheduling, hiring paperwork, and customer satisfaction. The Kitchen Manager must maintain company procedures, communicate with the kitchen supervisor or district manager, and uphold applicable food-handling, health, and fire regulations.

Requirements

• Must pass ServSafe certification.
• Must be knowledgeable about kitchen operations and safety procedures.
• Knowledge of first aid for burns and cuts.
• Knowledge of how to complete the company incident report.
• Positive leadership and excellent communication skills.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Must follow company money-handling procedures.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and supervise kitchen employees according to food safety standards.
• Ensure compliance with state, federal, and local food-handling requirements and standards, as well as health and fire department regulations.
• Direct kitchen employees and ensure they complete their duties.
• Set cleaning standards and verify that staff maintain sanitation and safety standards.
• Order food and kitchen supplies, and check vendor deliveries for accuracy by counting items.
• Supervise food preparation and cooking times, check cooking and holding temperatures, and maintain correct portion sizes.
• Ensure items are dated and labeled according to DHEC standards and the FIFO (first in, first out) rule, and ensure food is stored safely.
• Perform weekly inventory counts and track waste to control it.
• Train kitchen employees in food preparation, procedures, and inventory management.
• Drive customer satisfaction through quality control and efficiency.
• Supervise, coach, and motivate kitchen employees; recruit and interview candidates and complete new-hire paperwork.
• Create weekly schedules and ensure kitchen staff clock in correctly.
• Follow company money-handling procedures.
• Ensure food equipment is clean and in good working order, and submit work orders as needed.
• Communicate with the kitchen supervisor or district manager.
• Feed and stage food in warmers, making smaller quantities more often.
• Prepare daily build-to lists.
• Maintain high-performance standards and follow kitchen operating and safety procedures.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed