Job Summary

The Kitchen Manager is responsible for delivering clear direction, leadership, and support to the bistro BOH team to ensure that Taste of Belgium continues growing bistro sales and profits. The Chef focuses on developing a culture of pride that consistently delivers quality obsessed guest service and food while ensuring compliance with policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to

Culinary Oversight - Lead the BOH team by ensuring that all recipes are adhered to, the presentation and quality of food are consistently served and within the TOB standards and guidelines. Follow all food handling, inventory, and scheduling standards.
Sales and Profitability - Challenge and inspire the BOH team to achieve positive business results, including the delivery of outstanding guest experience through the achievement of consistent food, and adherence to expense budgets including labor and cost of goods sold.
Administrative Support - Administration and oversight of operational software & systems, including but not limited to, point of sale, inventory management, and employee onboarding.
Facilities Oversight - Ensure that all TOB properties and equipment remain in good working condition and up to company standards through the monitoring and coordination of repairs, routine maintenance, and coordination with vendors.
Talent Management - Assertively directs and motivates all BOH team members in order to achieve the operational goals of Taste of Belgium. This includes maintaining proper staffing pars, ensuring all team members receive ongoing formal and informal performance coaching, and continuously advising teams of employee procedures and guidelines. Lead a positive team environment by recognizing and reinforcing individual accomplishments. Lead succession planning by identifying talent internally and externally.
Caterings/Events - Assist in the production of goods for outside events and provide general support in regards to these and all off-site events
Other duties as defined by executive management

Reporting Relationship

The Chef reports directly to the General Manager
Maintains a favorable working relationship with all TOB employees within the units and Home Office to foster and promote a harmonious working climate
All kitchen staff report directly to the Chef

Qualifications
Required

Minimum of 3 years kitchen management experience
Strong background and knowledge of food
Excellent communication, decision making and leadership skills
Demonstrated ownership mentality and a passion for the business
Image of professionalism, business maturity and self sufficiency
Certified in food safety
Computer knowledge including MS Word, Excel and POS
General accounting knowledge
Must be able to work flexible hours including evenings, weekends and holidays

Preferred

Culinary degree or equivalent progressive work experience

Conditions

Position requires prolonged standing, bending, stooping, twisting, and lifting of products and supplies weighing up 50 lbs.
Environmental exposures to cold, heat, and water

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Taste of Belgium is a restaurant group of Belgian-inspired eateries. We take traditional Belgian recipes and we twist them; we take American classics and we Belgianize them.

In 2007, Jean-François Flechet brought back a 120lbs cast iron waffle maker from his native Belgium. He began baking the waffles he grew up with at the back of a produce store at Findlay Market. After a few weeks, the store was congested with waffle-eating-people and Jean-François was told he needed to find a new home.

The little waffle place grew, one waffle at a time to become a new Cincinnati favorite. From one person and a waffle iron, Taste of Belgium expanded into multiple food establishments including the Findlay Market location and six full-service Bistros serving breakfast, lunch, dinner and a unique weekend brunch with a large selection of Belgian beers.

You might have seen Taste of Belgium featured at the Great American Ballpark as the official waffle of the Cincinnati Reds or on Food Network’s Diner’s, Drive-ins & Dives. With national recognition, Taste of Belgium is becoming a Cincinnati staple and food lovers destination.

Taste of Belgium draws on its Belgian heritage to create a one-of-a-kind, Belgian-inspired, locally infused culinary experience. We thumb our nose at convention and treat our guests and their taste buds to unexpected combinations and unorthodox preparations.

Belgians would be disturbed by the idea of eating a Liège waffle with fried chicken and hot sauce. The French would be upset that we Belgianized their “galettes Bretonnes” by adding beer to the buckwheat crêpe batter. And the old-grain Belgian Genever we use in many of our handcrafted cocktails can rival any Cachaça to make the perfect Caipirinha.

We believe elegant cuisine can be served with a down-to-earth attitude and humble foods can be served elegantly.

We take the food we create and the service we provide very seriously, but not ourselves.

Waffles, Chicken, Beer. Eat Like a Belgian, Drink Like a Belgian, Live Like a Belgian!

– Jean-François Flechet

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