AJ's Fine Foods Gourmet Chef - Central & Camelback

Job Description The gourmet chef will assist in the preparation, display, and merchandising of all bistro foods for sale (fresh prepared and packaged). The chef's creativity, and passion for food and cooking, contributes to the development, preparation and presentation of outstanding prepared foods available for breakfast, lunch, dinner as well as for catered events. Must have chef certification from a recognized culinary school. Some Job Responsibilities include: "• Working with the deli/bistro manager and/or executive chef to achieve the sales, product quality and presentation and customer service goals established for the department. • Planning, developing and presenting various menus, using a great deal of expertise and creativity. • Answering phones and taking special orders. • Maintaining a positive and friendly attitude towards customers and fellow team members. • Engaging with customers through smiles and greetings, offering product information, providing selling suggestions and active sampling and always giving a genuine thank you. • Facilitating catered events from their beginning to a happy conclusion. • Working with catering director and the executive chef on menu planning and facilitating the production of catering menus to ensure profitability and company standards. • Demonstrating excellent communications and salesmanship skills with clients and vendors. • Maintaining open communication with all members of the deli/bistro department, catering department, deli/bistro department manager, and executive chef. • Ensuring compliance with all state, county and local health department and weights and measures policies, laws and requirements. • Controlling food cost control shrink by monitoring production and implementing reworks. Performs other duties as needed or assigned by management. Must be at least 18 years old. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time .This description reflects management's assignment of essential functions. It does not proscribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned. This job description is subject to change at any time. Employer provides reasonable accommodations to a qualified employee that does not impose an undue hardship on the employer. " Job Qualification "• With both customers and team members, remain helpful, tactful and courteous. • Work quickly and efficiently, sometimes with little direction, to accomplish assigned duties. • Add, subtract, divide, multiply and perform other basic business math calculations. • Read UPC codes, product labels, shelf signage, business forms, and posted company policies/procedures. • Be knowledgeable of a wide variety general department products (grocery, frozen food, HBC, non-foods, liquor, DSD and dairy), including their locations in the store. • Memorize product locations. • Be dexterous enough with hands and fingers so as to be able to fill and rotate products quickly and use necessary equipment, including box cutters. • Communicate openly and professionally through appropriate body language, facial expressions and speech, also communicating in writing when necessary. • Listen to and understand verbal and non-verbal communication of customers and fellow members. • Stand for long periods of time, bend and twist, and frequently lift and/or maneuver merchandise and supplies weighing 30 – 50lbs. • Lift 50 and maneuver up to 100 lbs. while breaking down large and very heavy pallet loads of produce cases, boxes and bags. • Operate manual and electric pallet jacks. • Often work in walk-in refrigerated coolers. • If called upon, night crew clerks may need to learn use of cash registers. "