Kitchen Manager- Beer Barrel Pizza & Grill - Good Food Restaurants

Kitchen Manager

Beer Barrel Pizza & Grill is actively seeking a highly motivated Kitchen Manager to join our Hilliard team. We strongly prefer bilingual candidates who are comfortable communicating with both English and Spanish-speaking team members. If you are goal-oriented, team-focused, and possess strong management skills to support our growing team, we encourage you to apply today!

Goal: The Kitchen Manager's role is to ensure Beer Barrel kitchen operations are held to company standards. This role is primarily responsible for keeping cost of goods, kitchen staffing, cleanliness, health and sanitation, safety, ticket times, and the kitchen training program in alignment with company expectations and store-specific goals. By analyzing our overall kitchen performance and implementing 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.
• Order inventory weekly to keep food costs at or below company goals and use Margin Edge to track COG progress while actively adjusting your processes to align with goals
• Ensure BOH staffing levels are met by actively hiring for terminations and/or seasonal help - complete all steps for successful onboarding and training for new hires
• Build relationships with your staff, be flexible with their scheduling needs, create a welcoming and enjoyable workplace, and provide praise performance feedback and developmental plans through timely evaluations to keep employee turnover to a minimum
• Collaborate with and oversee the Assistant Kitchen Manager (where applicable), providing regular guidance and directives, and scheduling weekly check-ins
• Responsible for all BOH interpersonal staff conflicts, including call-offs, progressive disciplinary action, and terminations, while collaborating with your General Manager
• Build weekly kitchen schedules that are in line with labor budgets, fair for staff and work with the flow of business
• Responsible for health and safety compliance with the state of Ohio, including ongoing training with team members, addressing issues at hand, maintaining temp logs, and storage
• Develop a team to ensure trucks are put away properly, including rotation and organization. Approve that all items on invoices are accounted for, and if not, take proper steps to make it right
• Communicate on an ongoing basis with your GM and maintenance team to flag high-priority needs and follow through until the task is completed
• Communicate and execute successful menu rollouts, menu changes, and product changes
• Manage the kitchen department's finished product quality and average ticket times, evaluate our areas of opportunity and collaborate with store managers and Director of Kitchen Operations to make necessary process improvements
• Oversee Cintas billing, product quality, and uniform program
• Evaluate the quality of kitchen tools, smallware, China, etc. and replace items not up to code
• Keep cleanliness as an ongoing project with weekly and daily cleaning, identify and assign larger tasks, create checklists, and follow through

Qualifications:

• A minimum of 3 years of supervisory or management experience   
• Knowledge of or certification in safe food handling procedures 
• Experience leading diverse teams of people 
• Experience training and mentoring new staff 
• Strong judgment which can be used to set and achieve goals  
• A positive and upbeat personality, capable of inspiring others 
• Basic business math skills and computer literacy 

Work Environment:

• This position is a full-time, 50-hour, exempt salaried position
• This position reports directly to the General 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.