Sous Chef - Macau Kitchen

at Bally's (Dover Downs) in Dover, Delaware, United States

Job Description

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 

·         Understands the daily production of all food.

·         Leads all aspects of the venue’s kitchen, including both hot and cold culinary.
Works cooperatively with the managers of assigned outlets to achieve excellent products for our guests.

·         Manages the production side of food service.

·         Ability to train all Leads and cooks to run the operation in same consistent manner, regardless of scheduling, days off, and/or in the absence of the Chef de cuisine.

·         Assists Executive Chef and Buffet Chef de cuisine with Banquet events on and offsite.

·         Creates new recipes and contributes to the menu development.

·         Ensures that standardized and national-contract products are used in the kitchen.

·         Maintains current recipe files and enforces the consistent use of recipes by staff.

·         Ensures that safe and appropriate procedures are used when receiving,

·         storing, preparing, holding, cooking, and serving food.

·         Uses HACCP sanitation guidelines and procedures when doing the above.

·         Follows all Bally’s guidelines in terms of sanitation inspections etc.

·         Inspects and tastes prepared foods on a daily basis to ensure excellent quality and presentation.

·         Communicates consistently all engineering and safety issue(s) to all appropriate parties.

·         Oversees the cleanliness of all food areas of said Venue. Oversees the appropriate operation, cleanliness and maintenance of kitchen equipment and other kitchen assets.

·         Oversees the safety programs of assigned outlets.

·         Participates in the budgeting and planning processes.

·         Maintains food, labor, and other expenses at budgeted levels, using established procedures.

·         Ensures that appropriate staffing levels are maintained in assigned kitchens.

·         Hire, train, supervise and develop kitchen supervisors, leads, cooks etc.

·         Develops and maintains a positive work environment.

·         Acts as a role model to other employees and always presents self as a credit to Bally’s and encourages others to do the same.

·         Spends the majority of time training, coaching and motivating employees to exceed guest’s expectations.