About this role
Job title: Executive Sous Chef
About the Role Executive Sous Chef at Lincoln Ristorante in New York, NY, responsible for managing high-volume kitchen operations and ensuring exceptional food quality, presentation, and menu development. This role requires a dynamic leader who can manage, inspire, and develop the kitchen team, collaborate with other departments, and maintain an organized, efficient, and sanitary workspace.
What You'll Do
- Assist the Executive Chef with daily supervision and production of all operations and events, ensuring adherence to recipe standards and high-quality food preparation
- Showcase culinary expertise and refined cooking technique, style, and taste
- Hire, train, and mentor team members, creating a cohesive work environment
- Oversee budget management, monitor food and labor costs, manage staffing levels, and ensure efficient inventory control, ordering, and receiving processes
- Collaborate with the Executive Chef and culinary team in menu design and recipe development
- Maintain a safe, sanitary, and organized kitchen that complies with state and local health department regulations and company policies
What We're Looking For
- Minimum of 3 years of previous culinary management experience in upscale high-volume food and beverage operation
- Exceptional skills in high-volume cooking, food presentation, and precise recipe adherence, with the ability to lead, coach, and motivate a diverse team
- Knowledge of best practices for monitoring food and labor cost, menu development, costing, ordering, inventory, and food safety and sanitation
- Proficient computer skills, including Word and Excel
- Ability to obtain ServSafe, Food Safety Handler
- Capacity to work a flexible schedule to accommodate business levels
- Experience with butchering techniques, meat fabrication, and fish processing in a professional kitchen environment
- Possess hands-on experience with extruded and sheeted pasta production, including dough preparation, shaping, and quality control
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary range: $88,000-$111,000 per year
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) with up to 4% company match
- Annual performance bonus based on level, as well as individual, company, and location performance
- Paid vacation days and holidays
- Paid parental bonding leave
- Tuition and/or professional certification reimbursement
- Generous friends-and-family discounts at many of our hotels and resorts