Executive Chef - Patient/Resident - Luby's Culinary Services
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Description:The Executive Chef will lead the culinary trajectory for patient and resident food service programs. They will be responsible for menu creation, managing kitchen operations, overseeing food quality, ensuring food safety standards, and maintaining cost controls.Responsibilities:1. Designs and implement creative, seasonally appropriate menus.2. Incorporates local and sustainable ingredients.3. Innovate new dishes while maintaining consistency in established signature dishes.4. Works with clinical team to ensure all nutritional and national guidelines are being followed.5. Works with menu management system and understand all modules.6. Supervises the daily kitchen operations.7. Trains and coaches the kitchen staff processes, procedures and kitchen operations.8. Monitor food costs.9. Ensures the highest standards of food presentation, flavor, and consistency.10. Ensures compliance with food safety, health, and sanitation regulations.Requirements:• Positive, professional attitude.• Culinary degree or equivalent professional experience.• Minimum 5 years of experience as an Executive Chef or similar leadership role in a hospital and/or senior living community.• Expertise in patient feeding.• Strong leadership skills.• Strong communication skills, both oral and written.• Expertise in modern and classing cooking techniques, including international cuisine.• Knowledge of health and safety regulations related to healthcare food service.Essential Physical Job Functions:1. Physical requirements are the ability to stand for long periods of time and able to lift up to 50 pounds with or without reasonable accommodation.2. This position requires a focused individual in order to achieve success.3. Must be able to multi-task with good organizational and project skills.4. Must be able to work well under pressure.Additional Info:This job posting contains some general information about what it is like to work at Pappas Restaurants and is not a complete job description. Pappas Team Members perform a number of different tasks every day, and this posting does not list all of the essential functions of the job.Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done that will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing an undue hardship on the Company. Please contact ...@pappasrestaurants.com for assistance completing any forms or to participate in the application process.Pappas Restaurants is an Equal Opportunity Employer.