Kitchen Manager
- Grahamstown, Eastern Cape
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Advanced knowledge with kitchen sanitation and safety regulations.
- Excellent organizational skills
- Great leadership and interpersonal skills.
- Outstanding communication ability.
- Well-organized with multi-tasking skills.
- Able to handle stress, work well under pressure and remain calm.
- Problem-solving ability.
- Perfection in sanitation and quality control.
- Conflict management abilities.
- Lead a team and be positive
- Energetic and self driven with a passion for plating and beautiful creative meals
- Ability to manage a team in a fast-paced work environment
- Manage kitchen staff and coordinate food orders
- Supervising food prep and cooking
- Checking food plating and temperature
- Establish portion sizes
- Schedule kitchen staff shifts
- Planning and organizing of large functions and executing them successfully
- Weekly stocktake as well as stock management and ordering
- Controlling of waste and practice FIFO principal in order to control all stock and food items
- Order food supplies and kitchen equipment, as needed
- Design menus and weekly specials for a high paced upmarket restaurant including buffet, a la carte, call order as well as canape and snack items for upmarket clients and functions
- Computer literate on excel and word as well as CANVA.
- Train kitchen staff on prep work and food plating techniques
- Store food products in compliance with safety practices (e.g. in refrigerators)
- Proven work experience as a Kitchen Manager or Head Chef
- Maintain safety standards in the kitchen area
- Able to work long hours and every Friday & Saturday
- Certification from a culinary school or degree in Restaurant Management is a plus