Assistant Kitchen Manager-Beer Barrel Pizza & Grill

Job Description

Job Description

Assistant Kitchen Manager

Goal: In support of the Kitchen Manager, the Assistant Kitchen Manager's role is to ensure Beer Barrel kitchen operations are held to company standards. Monitoring our most important metrics, including cost of goods, kitchen staffing, cleanliness, health and sanitation, safety, ticket times, and the kitchen training program, is the comprehensive goal of this position. By evaluating our overall kitchen performance and collaborating with the Kitchen Manager to implement improvements, you ensure quality food is getting to our guests promptly.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure food quality, presentation, and ticket times are the top priorities for each shift

• Minimize waste through proper training, weekly review/adjustments of prep lists, and department pre/post shift

• Collaborate with kitchen manager on weekly morale-boosting ideas and weekly focuses

• Keep cleanliness as an ongoing priority with weekly and daily cleaning, identify and assign larger tasks, checklists, and follow through

• Responsible for health and safety compliance with respect to Health department regulations, including ongoing training with team members, addressing issues at hand, maintaining temp logs, and storage hierarchy

• Report directly to the kitchen manager and participate in weekly 1-on-1 meetings to keep communication strong

• Ensure quality food is leaving the kitchen at all times by floating from station to station, supporting where needed throughout the shift

• Oversee the prep team while ensuring quality is there and recipes are being followed

• Assign temp chart completion and ensure they are completed four times a day and are being done correctly

• Work with KM on cross-training plans and new-hire training

• Responsible for overseeing new-hire training. If you are not the trainer, you will check in each shift on progress and needs

• Ensure each shift that all measuring scoops are in place and used accurately.

• Responsible for food orders - C&M, SOFO, Ciminillo's

• Actively coach team members to continuously improve skillsets and knowledge

• Conduct roll call and make sure staff are 100% in uniform before allowing clock in

• Responsible for nightly check-outs at each station and ensuring their area is approved before allowing the team to leave when the KM is not closing

Qualifications:

• Knowledge of or certification in safe food handling procedures

• Minimum 2 years of kitchen focused leadership strongly preferred

• Proven record of reliability and ability to exercise good judgment

• A positive and upbeat personality, capable of inspiring others 

• Basic Business Math Skills and computer literacy

Work Environment:

• This position is a full-time, 40-hour, exempt salaried position

• This position reports directly to the Kitchen Manager

• This position is 100% in-person

Beer Barrel Pizza & Grill is an equal opportunity employer. We offer a welcoming and inclusive environment in service of one another, our employees, the diverse customers we aim to serve, and the communities we call home. We do all of this with kindness, empathy and respect for each other.