KITCHEN MANAGER IN TRAINING
GATE Store – Jacksonville, Florida
Kitchen Manager Essential Skills
• Customer-Service: Food Service Fresh Kitchen Manager will interact with customers. Being friendly and courteous will help keep customers coming back.
• Attention to Detail: Food Service Fresh Kitchen Manager must keep their eyes on a multiple area: food standards, food safety, and cleanliness.
• Leadership: Food Service Fresh Kitchen Manager must be responsible and willing to often work autonomously.
• Problem-Solving Skills: Dealing with irate customers is part of a Food Service Fresh Kitchen Manager job. Being able to come up with a solution quickly is a needed skill.
• Communication Skills: Food Service Fresh Kitchen Manager need to accurately and easily communicate to other staff, give suggestions to customers and speak with customers clearly.
• Stamina: Food Service Fresh Kitchen Manager can have long hours around hot cooking elements, much of it on their feet, multi-tasking across different areas of the food service offerings.
• Standards and Practices: Maintaining safety, sanitation, and quality controls to protect company investment in Foodservice offering
• Training: Food Service Fresh Kitchen Manager works in both a constant leaning /teaching environment and aids in reinforcing training and food service concepts
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Aids in maintaining sales goals and margin goals
• Reinforces and abides by safety training according to Federal, State, Local law rules and regulations including company policy
• Interacts with Federal, State, County or local representatives to maintain all necessary certifications and follows all regulations as dictated by said agencies
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals for food service equipment
• Maintain safety standards in conformance with state and company guidelines
• Assists with coordinating employee training to standards set forth by training aids and manual
• Maintain appropriate Periodic Automatic Replenishment (PAR) levels (Fixed quantity of an item that must be kept on hand to support daily operations)
• Assist with weekly and monthly food service financial reporting
• Attend appropriate store meetings and training sessions
• Supports sales promotion activities
• Coordinates employee training to standards set forth by training aids and manual
• Determines the materials and supplies necessary to maintain appropriate levels
• Coordinates sales promotion activities
• Food safety knowledge as dictated by the most recent Federal Food Code
• Complete all monthly food service financial reports
Requirements
Qualified Candidates Must:
• Be at least 18 years old for Food Service Kitchen Manager
• Maintain a valid Driver’s License
• Be willing to travel and support other stores training and opening initiatives
Knowledge & Skill Requirements:
• Successful job experience in a convenience store, restaurant / fast food or related environment; knowledge of Food Safety
• Must have and maintain Food Safety Certification
Supervision of Personnel:
Supervise 3 or more Food Kitchen Associates in a Fresh Kitchen or advanced Foodservice concept store
Physical/Environmental:
Physical Demands:
Activities: Bending, kneeling, reaching and stooping are required to perform the tasks of this position / adequate strength, balance and coordination are required
Lifting: Must be able to lift 50 pounds
Environment: Climate controlled store / walk-in coolers
Evaluation
• Performance of this position will be evaluated annually by the Store Manager
• Fresh Kitchen Manager position qualifies for Quarterly bonuses based on performance