Kitchen Manager

Working at The Cow?!? You bet! Join our team and see how much fun and rewarding work can be.

We are looking for a positive, motivating, and inspiring leader with a “Servant to All” type attitude. Managers should be able to work with the team to provide guests with “Outrageous” service and quality standards by leading a hardworking team in a fast-paced environment.

Title of Position: Kitchen Manager

Reports to: General Manager/Director of Operations/Ownership

Objectives:

• Meets restaurant financial objectives by achieving annual forecasts and budgets; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions; monitoring financial controls; developing and implementing strategies to increase average guest count and per person average
• Attracts guests by developing and implementing quality operations, executing local store marketing practices, participating and providing input in marketing strategies, and community relations programs
• Controls purchases and inventory; manages costs; taking corrective actions.
• Maintains operations by ensuring policies and standard operating procedures compliance; implementing production, productivity, quality, and guest-service standards; determining and implementing system improvements
• Maintains guest satisfaction by monitoring, evaluating, and auditing food, beverage, and service; initiating improvements; building relationships with guests
• Accomplishes restaurant human resource objectives by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, praising and disciplining team members; communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions; planning and reviewing compensation actions
• Maintains a safe, secure, and healthy facility environment by establishing, following, and enforcing sanitation standards and procedures; complying with health and legal regulations; maintaining security systems; caring for and maintaining equipment, furniture and facilities
• Accomplishes company goals by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

Restaurant Kitchen Manager Skills and Qualifications:

• Decision Making, Process Improvement, Strategic Planning, Verbal Communication, Guest Focus, Management Proficiency, Managing Profitability, Quality Focus, Food and Restaurant Safety Focus, Marketing

Purple Cow seeks leaders that will lead by example and inspire our team members to be team players focused on the guest as their #1 priority.