Department: BOH Kitchen
Reports to: General Manager
Location: Nashville, TN
ABOUT CHIEF'S
Located at the intersection of 2nd Avenue and Broadway, Chief's is a six-story bar, restaurant, and live music venue designed to celebrate Eric Church's ever-expanding musical legacy. Located in historic downtown Nashville, Chief's features a ticketed music venue, inspirational interiors, and a thoughtful focus on unique live performances, offering fans an unparalleled entertainment experience in Music City. Chief's also features a restaurant partnership with James Beard Award Winning Pitmaster Rodney Scott.
Why Work for Us?
Like a "Melody creates a Memory," we are a team of inspired, intentional creatives, linking great live music, incredible food and superior hospitality to create lasting memories. Refusing to be defined by other's ideas of what is possible, we strive to build timeless, meaningful experiences to life every day.
Benefits for both Part Time and Full Time
Access to great live music and complimentary concert tickets
Team Philanthropic Activities as Chief Cares Ambassadors
Employee Discounts on Food, Beverage, and Retail
Team Outings
Quarterly Team Meetings
Ongoing Career & Leadership Development
Diverse, Inclusive and Safe Venue
Certified Safe Bar
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Sous Chef's role is to provide uncompromised excellence at all times, making the Guest and the Food the heart and passion of all they do. This includes ensuring consistent execution of all FOH and BOH systems and profitability by providing and ensuring quality training, coaching and follow- through. The Sous Chef is accountable for food standards, systems, cleanliness, organization, Team Member engagement and the Guest experience.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
Responsibilities and essential job functions include but are not limited to the following:
Key Performance Elements & Essential Functions
Knowledgeable of all Kitchen (Pit, prep, Expo, QC and line quality identifiers and standards) and Dining Room systems and operations (To-Go, Host, Bar, and service standards); must demonstrate the ability to run effective shifts in all aspects of the restaurant.
Provides direction, coaching, and leadership for all Employees including training, safety and sanitation, and company policies and procedures.
Responsible for establishing and appropriately communicating goals to Executive Chef and General Manager on a regular basis.
Communicate effectively with the Management Team and staff.
Effectively maintains the restaurant's facility, both exterior and interior, to Rodney Scott's BBQ standards (clean, neat, and organized) and ensures sufficient supply levels of tools available for both FOH and BOH Team Members to execute their responsibilities.
Knowledgeable of inventory procedures and can complete weekly inventory in their area of responsibility.
Write department schedule, effectively maintaining labor goals and guest satisfaction. The schedule should be planned to use forecasted sales and labor budget, while taking employee availabilities, requests and vacations into consideration.
Responsible for posting department schedule in a timely manner. Ensures adequate advance notice is provided when posting holiday schedules.
Communicate effectively with vendors.
Provides direction, coaching, and leadership for all Employees including FOH and BOH training, safety and sanitation, and company policies and procedures.
Interview and assist in the hiring of all departments to maintain appropriate staffing par levels.
Effectively maintains an area of responsibility in restaurants that include Pit, prep, Line execution, and QC to include recipe adherence, cleanliness and sanitation, kitchen and storage organization, and employee kitchen knowledge is accomplished by coaching throughout and after the shift.
WHO YOU ARE
We are seeking a highly motivated individual who enjoys working in a fast-paced but disciplined environment. You are enthusiastic and committed to quality and you thrive on creating exceptional service and consistently delivering memorable experiences. You are always striving to learn more, work well with others and show up each day ready to deliver brand excellence. This role will need strong ambassadors of the brand ready to maximize the potential of revenue generation, profitability, and driving sales, while delivering unparalleled service.
This role also requires the following capabilities:
Exceptional leadership and motivational skills required. Must be able to attract, train, develop and retain the very best employees in the industry.
Exceptionally strong guest focus mentality, with the ability to provide an exceptional dining experience for each guest.
Ability to define, measure and attain stretch financial goals for the restaurant - with a focus on year-over-year sales growth, guest count increases, effective staffing levels, great service, add- on sales, and labor cost management.
Proven ability to multitask, delegate, and manage concurrent projects in a high-volume, fast-paced environment.
Exceptional decision-making and troubleshooting skills with meticulous attention to detail.
YOUR QUALIFICATIONS
Physical Requirements
Ability to sit or stand for long periods of time and work in a restaurant environment.
Ability to lift at least 50 pounds.
While performing the duties of the Manager, they are regularly required to stand and walk; talk or hear, in person and use hands repetitively to finger, handle, feel or operate kitchen equipment and other standard office equipment; reach with hands and arms; bend, kneel and crouch and climb.
Preferred
High school diploma, or general equivalency diploma (GED)
Some college preferred
One to two years of management experience preferred.
Full-service restaurant management experience preferred.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Chief's on Broadway is an equal employment opportunity employer and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, creed, religion, sex, age, national origin or ancestry, physical, medical or mental disability or condition (including, without limitation, HIV and AIDS), developmental disability, handicap, denial of family and medical care leave, denial of pregnancy leave, domestic partner status, status as a victim of sexual or domestic violence (or familial relationship to such victim), veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, arrest records, citizenship status, criminal history that has been expunged, unfavorable discharge from the military, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local laws.