Production Chef

Feast & Fettle is seeking a PRODUCTION CHEF to join Hot Line operations at our production kitchen in East Providence [PM Shift].

What is Feast & Fettle?

Feast & Fettle started as a private chef’s business in 2016, and has since scaled into New England’s leading premium, fully-prepared meal delivery service.

Each week at our Rhode Island production kitchen, our high-quality menu items are prepared from scratch, packaged with care, and then hand-delivered to our retail locations and growing member base across New England.

In joining us at F&F, you will work alongside a transparent, high-growth team filled with joyful, ambitious people. The culture at Feast & Fettle is what sets us apart from any other organization, and in particular from the common pitfalls of the food service industry. We commit every day to fostering a positive and empowering environment where we all are driven to bring our best selves to work and to make the company better each day. Feast & Fettle is also actively growing, and passionate about providing growth opportunities to our employees.

What does a Production Chef at F&F do?

Each day of the weekly production cycle, your Executive Chef will rely on you and your team to facilitate the preparation of our menu items (entrees, sides, soups, kids meals, etc) with the highest possible quality, level of precision, and food safety for home delivery to our members.

This work includes the responsibility to:

• Direct and execute the planning, preparation, and production of a set of recipes each week

• Supervise, mentor and work alongside a team of 4-6 Production Cooks 

• Ensure consistent, high quality standards are being maintained 

• Ensure all weights are being recorded for all recipes being executed by Production Cooks 

• Collect data used to adjust recipes that are off-yielding

• Direct and execute the planning, production, and packaging of hot line entrees, sides & add ons

• Ensure consistent, high standards of food quality are being maintained 

• Record and communicate leftover product, allowing for Production teams to adjust output

• Taste all product prior to sending to Garde Manger for portioning and packaging

• Ensure safety standards are being upheld, recording temperatures of food at various stages of the process and adhering to F&F cooling standards

• Enforce first in first out for raw product

• Assist with organization-wide demands of the weekly production cycle, including: labeling and packaging, pro-actively maintaining the F&F standard of cleanliness and organization of our equipment and storage across the facility, and helping coworkers across teams, with an all-hands-on-deck attitude reflective of our We Got You values.

What does a strong applicant for this position have?

• 5 years working in commercial kitchen, catering, or scaled production environment

• 3 years of training and managing kitchen teams of 3 employees

• Experience with scaled food production preferred

• Able to maintain rigorous, high quality, food safety standards

• Highly detailed-oriented and able to keep calm under pressure

• Familiarity with kitchen math- weighing raw and finished product plus adjusting recipe yields

• Must be able to lift 50 lbs. Multiple times/day

• Must be able to stand for long periods of time (8-10 hours)

• Desire to contribute positively to your coworkers and to the company

• Ability to listen and communicate effectively

• Very strong work ethic and enthusiastic attitude

• Tech savvy is a major plus! We like to integrate tech into all aspects of the business

• Positive attitude; we believe a negative attitude inhibits everything about what we are trying to accomplish as a team.

What you get:

• Competitive Salary: $55,000 per year

• Competitive benefit package including:

• Health Benefits (medical, dental, vision): Feast & Fettle covers 65% of employee premiums!

• Paid time off, accrued

• Free F&F weekly meal plan membership ($139 weekly value)

• 401k

• $50 monthly wellness benefit

• $1,000/yr Professional Development Reimbursement

• Paid Parental Leave

• Access to staff Social Worker

Salary : $55,000 - $0