Kitchen Manager

We're celebrating 26 years and growing!!  If you love a scratch kitchen that uses high quality ingredients, this job is for you!  The Tacodeli Kitchen Manager ensures excellence by making our purpose of sharing our love of tacos come to life in our restaurants. Through inspiring leadership, the Kitchen Manager builds and leads a kitchen team to execute Tacodeli quality, food safety, and operational standards. The Kitchen Manager is instrumental in ensuring an efficient, consistent kitchen with fully trained Team Members.  The Kitchen Manager leads by example and coaches the team to consistently achieve results and maintain our uncompromising standards of food quality, cleanliness, service, and sanitation.  

What You’ll Be Doing

• Hand cracking eggs, peeling avocados, shucking corn, using high quality ingredients!
• Model Tacodeli's values, culture, and leadership behaviors
• Utilize training programs with new hires and existing team members
• Set clear standards and hold the team accountable to high-performance expectations
• Lead and encourage a rich culture of execution, training, development, and high performance in our scratch kitchen
• Become the expert on all food quality and safety standards
• Provide operational insights to the Culinary and Senior Leadership team to increase product quality, efficiency, and operational success
• Purchase food to ensure the restaurant is well-equipped and ready for day-to-day operations
• Follow all food safety programs, including consistent hand washing
• Responsible for writing schedules every two weeks and training in proper food preparation and kitchen safety techniques.
• Work side by side with the General Manager on execution of food
• Lead by example and hold the team accountable for excellence in product quality, consistency of execution, speed of service, cleanliness, maintenance, and service.
• Competitive salary and $8,000 annual bonus potential

 REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES

• Minimum 1 year of restaurant kitchen leadership
• English language proficiency is required, and Spanish language proficiency is highly preferred. 
• Ability to use desktop computer programs/familiarity with MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.)
• Expected to work when the business requires which includes weekends, early hours, and evenings.
• Experience managing food costs and labor, ability to do so using technology (preferred experience with Hotschedules, and online ordering systems
• Ability to work cohesively in a team environment as well as perform job functions
• Proven skills in organizing work, attending to detail, giving direction, managing time effectively, and handling multiple tasks promptly.
• Must believe in a hands-on managing style and be willing to lead by example
• Experience hiring, developing, and training.
• Acts with the highest degree of integrity
• Substantial functional kitchen and restaurant operations expertise

Physical/Mental Requirements:

• Ability to stand/walk for 8 hours per day.
• Ability to occasionally bend, twist, reach, and lift items to 50 lbs, including stooping, lifting, pushing, pulling, kneeling, etc.
• Must be able to tolerate higher levels of noise from music, customer, and employee traffic.
• Ability to tolerate extreme temperatures
• Must have a solid positive attitude towards guests and team members. 

• Ability to use a personal computer.
• Must have a strong positive attitude towards guests 
• We are an E-Verify Employer