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Form of workAre you passionate about cooking, creating great menus, working on the next specialty cocktail and serving some of the most interesting people you’ll ever meet? Do you love cooking for your parents/grandparents, do you have traditional family recipes you want to share? Then a highly rewarding and exciting opportunity awaits you at our newly built premier senior living community - Clearwater Living at Newport Beach!
Clearwater at Newport Beach is opening in February and we are looking for the right culinarian to lead our team bringing our hospitality to life in a multitude of restaurants available to our residents and guests!
Clearwater Living associates enjoy great benefits:
- Excellent benefits
- 401(k)contributions
- Paid Vacation and Sick leave
- Exciting opportunities to grow
- Dynamic and fast paced environment
- Culture of people first and service always
Clearwater Living’s culinary mission is to source fresh seasonal ingredients to use in our daily specials and rotating menus. Whether you create one of our high-lighted Mediterranean selections or a choice that brings back memories of “good-ole home cooking”, you will lead team members to create new culinary experiences for everyone to enjoy!We believe certain values are timeless and remain from generation to generation. An internal compass leads us back to basics. Basic hospitality is “the sacred art of making a stranger feel like home”, many times this starts and continues around a sumptuous meal shared with friends. Are you the person to lead this adventure? If so, we welcome you to our table and our home! Apply today!
Pay Range: 85-100k depending on experience
- Manage, plan, develop, organize, schedule, evaluate, and direct the Culinary department
- Supervise the production, presentation and cost of food, and create a balanced rotating menu
- Serve as liaison between guests, residents and Culinary staff and be responsible for effective communication across all areas
- Resolve resident complaints regarding food quality and/or service
- Establish a Food Committee and/or survey and visit with residents regularly to determine resident special likes/dislikes and, as much as possible, resident preferences and requests
- Ensure a sanitary work environment and comply with all health and safety codes, state licensing regulations and policies and procedures regarding proper storage, handling and serving of food
- Develop and implement policies/processes to ensure that food is ready on time and proper temperature levels are met
- Backup Culinary staff in their job duties as needed
- Responsible for the cleanliness in dining room and ensure proper table settings at all times
- Recruit, hire, train, motivate, and supervise department staff in accordance with all company policies, procedures, and core values
- Carry out required new hire training and ongoing skills training for associates and maintain appropriate documentation
- Bachelor’s degree or related education in Culinary Arts or Hospitality is preferred or combination of formal training from a related culinary or technical school and experience overseeing restaurant and dining operations
- Minimum eight to ten years of experience in food service
- Minimum five to seven years of supervisory experience to include hiring, training, and supervising staff and developing and managing a budget
- Serve Safe certification preferred
- First Aid Certification required
- Ability, licensure and willingness to drive the community vehicle as needed
- Background clearances as required by government regulations
- Must meet health requirements, including TB
