What are the responsibilities and job description for the Culinary Director position at Centro Restaurant Group?
Is organization one of your best traits? Are policies and procedures your secret language? Do you believe nothing can warm the heart like gathering with loved ones for a truly delicious meal?
If yes, … then Centro Restaurant Group (CRG) is looking for you, a self-directed leader to serve as our Culinary Director. Join our awesome team and be a key leader in building CRG’s commissary kitchen and overall brand.
Why Centro Restaurant Group?
Food and drink with innovation. Atmosphere felt with energy, heart, and dedication.
Centro Restaurant Group aims to create fun fast-casual concepts that provide a welcoming and memorable experience for all guests while providing speedy and thorough service and quality food and beverage.
Our company values lie within our team and our community. CRG is devoted to fostering a fun and respectful space for our staff and our guests. We view our relationship with our community as symbiotic - when we nurture our family, our family grows and becomes stronger and thus, helps us better serve our community. In addition, CRG nurtures our team. We work hard to create an equitable, positive, and fun experience for all staff. We will invest as much in you as you invest in us, and are focused on not only having a cohesive and efficient team but in creating leaders.
As a valued member of our team your compensation package would include:
- Competitive salary based on experiences: $65,00.000 - $75,000.00
- Medical, dental, and vision plans
- Retirement Savings Plan with 3% match
- Paid Time Off
- Opportunities for professional development and leadership training i
- Opportunities for community service and philanthropic work
- Opportunities for promotion and bonuses
- Free Meals
- Annual all staff celebrations/parties
This is where you come in…
Your Impact
Serving as the Culinary Director your main responsibility will be the oversight of CRG’s commissary kitchen. You will be an integral part of building the policies, procedures, and systems that will be implemented at CRG’s commissary kitchen. As the Culinary Director, your key goal will be to bolster commissary food production for all CRG storefront locations; as well as CRG’s catering and delivery programs. In addition, you will be responsible for supervising commissary kitchen staff and training the team on important operations protocol.
Responsibilities of the job include but are not limited to:
1) Operations: Oversee safety and sanitation standards. Run consistency and quality control for all CRG commissary kitchen products. Manage food and labor costs. Implement protocols for recipe creation and eliminating food waste.
2) Distribution: Manage the distribution of products to multiple CRG store fronts. Oversee distribution operations including inventory, transportation, maintenance and ordering systems.
3) Delivery Program: Build CRG’s delivery program from a one store operation to a robust delivery program. Create delivery policies and procedures. Oversee cross-functional communications between back of the house, delivery staff, and management.
4) Leadership: Assist in the training and supervision of all Centro commissary staff. Create weekly commissary kitchen schedules. Attend leadership meetings. Set company-wide goals for commissary kitchen production.
What You’ll Bring
- Culinary leadership experience
- Commissary kitchen experience preferred but not required
- Experience supervising and training teams
- A love for hospitality and the unique culture of restaurants
- A desire and ability to perpetuate a positive work culture
- A thirst to learn, develop oneself, and an openness to constructive criticism
- Experience working with diverse teams
- Ability to speak conversational Spanish preferred but not required
- Commitment to CRG’s mission and values
Centro Restaurant Group is an equal opportunity employer
We value diversity, inclusion and belonging at Centro Restaurant Group (CRG). CRG does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, age, marital status, familial status, or veteran status.