Executive Chef jobs in Winston Salem, NC

The Executive Chef is a management position overseeing fresh market culinary staff, responsible for developing and executing fresh seafood solutions to meet customer needs and tastes. The executive chef will oversee and manage culinary operations to meet fresh seafood production, line presentation, sanitation practices, and service standards. The executive chef will need to apply culinary techniques to food preparation and manage the final presentation to meet local seafood standards. 

Responsibilities:

Comprehensive knife skills

Strong fish butchering & fabricating skills

Maintaining food cost & inventory management

Coach employees by creating a shared understanding about what needs to be achieved and how it is to be achieved 

Reward and recognize employee wins

Plan and execute team meetings and daily huddles 

Complete & maintain all staff records including training records, shift opening/closing checklists and performance data 

Develop and maintain effective client and guest rapport for mutually beneficial business relationships 

Interact directly with guests daily 

Aggregate and communicate regional culinary and ingredient trends 

Responsible for labor targets

Qualifications:

Requires at least 4 years of culinary experience 

At least 2 years in a management role preferred 

Requires a culinary degree or equivalent experience 

Ability to multi-task 

Ability to simplify the agenda for the team 

Culinary creativity 

Requires advanced knowledge of the principles and practices within the food profession

This includes experiential knowledge required for management of people and/or problems

Requires oral, reading, and written communication skills 

ServSafe certification and/or food safety knowledge required

Strong catering & merchandising experience encourage

• This job profile does not contain a comprehensive listing of all required activities, duties, or responsibilities. Job duties, responsibilities and activities may change. 

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