SUMMARY:
Off-Site-Catering Executive Chef
POSITION INFO:
Employer Description
A well-established off-site catering company located in Johannesburg.
Job Description
Menu engineering, Designing specials according to seasonal changes. Controlling food costs and purchases.
Planning production in warehouse kitchen with several functions happening at the same time with complex menus with scheduling other head chefs to their functions to run. Manage and implement menus together with purchasing for each function and preparing recipes and dishes for menus engineered. Implementing hygiene and safety standards. Quality control. Staff registry. Running day to day operations seasonal specials. Train and manage kitchen personnel. Planning dietary requirements. Day to day running of the kitchen adhering to companies’ policies and procedures. Ensuring Levels of discipline are maintained at all times. Supervise/coordinate all related culinary activities. Estimate food consumption and requisition or purchase food. Select and develop recipes; standardize production recipes to ensure consistent quality and establish presentation technique and quality standards. Plan and price menus and ensure proper equipment operation/maintenance. Ensure proper safety and sanitation in kitchen.
Supervise kitchen personnel with responsibility for hiring, discipline, performance reviews. Oversee special catering events and may also offer culinary instruction and/or demonstrate culinary techniques. Control expenses, Budgets Cost Of Sales, HACCP training. Select and develop recipes and standardize production recipes to ensure consistent quality from corporate to private functions, weddings, breakfast, lunches and dinners, a la carte harvest tables, whatever the clients want. Catering for large scale events functions. Do Multiple functions per day feeding thousands of people at a time.
Qualifications
Professional Cookery Diploma. Formal Culinary or Catering Management Diploma.
Skills
Previous experience within an Off-Site Catering Executive Chef/Catering Management role is required.
Benefits
Negotiable
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