Kitchen Manager

About us: Tacofino began as a food truck in the back of a surf shop in beautiful Tofino, British Columbia. We balanced surfing with creating world-inspired food with the best possible ingredients and serving it with love. We kept the spirit of where we came from alive and have since grown into a unique restaurant brand with locations across the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island and continue to grow today.

Our values:

• Creative quality food - We create original, quality offerings with unique flavours
• Community - We partner with our communities to support impactful positive change
• Inspired hospitality - We want to provide memorable experiences that cannot be found anywhere else
• Our Team - We achieve our goals by embracing people for their individuality and supporting their personal and professional growth
• Environment - We strive to make positive sustainable decisions whenever possible

About you: You are passionate about food preparation and management. You want to play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth operation and success of our kitchen.

What we offer:

• Positive workplace culture
• Work/life balance
• Competitive Salary
• Eligibility for extended health, vision, and dental benefits
• Eligibility for maternity/parental leave top-up program
• Eligibility for discretionary incentive program
• Eligibility for Employee and Family Assistance Program
• Opportunities for continued growth

You will be:
People

• Supporting the Restaurant Operator in providing leadership to a team to ensure production goals are met and managing day-to-day kitchen operations
• Maintaining strong and positive communication with team members
• Being involved in the training of team members and offering continued growth opportunities for improvement
• Ensuring team members are following appropriate policy and procedure and upholding positive workplace values

Kitchen Operations

• Ensuring high-quality and consistency of food
• Work toward efficiency and managing location costs, including food, beverage, and labour
• Providing support with administrative tasks
• Helping support daily prep, reviewing inventories, and ordering to support product on hand while minimizing food waste
• Ensuring safe food handling procedures are being followed
• Ensuring compliance to Tacofino’s health and safety standards,Health and Safety Plan, and HACCP
• Ensuring proper storage procedures are being followed
• Other duties as required

You have:

• 1 year experience of providing supervision and direction within a fast paced culinary environment
• Passion in creating great guest experiences in both food and hospitality
• Providing support in onboarding, ongoing training and development, and increasing product knowledge within the team
• Experience in providing feedback, training, and support to team members
• Experience in positive and clear communication and encouraging feedback and questions from your team
• Values diversity, equity and inclusion by learning and adapting to individual learning and communication needs, alignment to goals, and contributing to a positive workplace experience
• A demonstrated passion for soulful food, people, and being a part of the restaurant industry
• Eagerness to gradually take on more responsibility and for continued growth
• Experience with an inventory management system ie optimum control or Market Man
• Strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to prioritize
• Attention to detail

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At Tacofino, we believe our people are what makes us great. If you are a positive person with a strong work ethic that is looking to come to join a fun workplace culture, then we invite you to apply for this role by submitting a cover letter and resume.
We believe in creating an inclusive environment and welcome all qualified applicants to apply.