Kitchen Manager

Hotspot Convenience Store (RL Jordan) • Mathews Heights, SC

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About The Position

The Kitchen Manager coordinates and supervises kitchen employees while ensuring food safety, sanitation, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction. The role oversees food preparation and cooking, purchasing and receiving, inventory, portioning, food storage, and quality control. It also includes hiring, onboarding, training, scheduling, coaching, and motivating kitchen staff; maintaining equipment and workplace safety; and communicating with the kitchen supervisor or district manager. The Kitchen Manager must follow company money-handling procedures and complete daily build-to’s.

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.
• Excellent communication skills and a positive leadership approach.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Must follow company money-handling procedures.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and supervise kitchen employees according to food safety standards, and ensure they complete their duties.
• Ensure compliance with state, federal, and local food-handling requirements, as well as health and fire department regulations.
• Set cleaning standards and verify that staff maintain sanitation and safety standards.
• Order food and kitchen supplies; receive vendor deliveries by counting items and checking their accuracy.
• Supervise food preparation and cooking times, check cooking and holding temperatures, and maintain correct portion sizes.
• Ensure food is dated and labeled according to DHEC standards, use FIFO (first in, first out), and store food products 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 frequently.
• Make daily build-to’s.
• Maintain high-performance standards and use first-aid knowledge for burns and cuts, as well as knowledge of the company incident-report process.

What This Job Offers

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