Published: August 29, 2024 - The Culinary Manager oversees all administrative tasks, including inventory management, purchasing, scheduling, payroll, and performance evaluations. They provide comprehensive supervision and training to café staff, ensuring proficiency in all menu items and special event preparations. Emphasizing food safety and customer service excellence, they manage barista duties, catered events, and promotional initiatives to enhance community engagement and patron satisfaction.


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1. Brand Manager Culinary, Savory Bites Catering, Springfield, IL
Job Summary:
- Creates, develops, and applies marketing strategy for product brands
- Manages brand communication projects
- Proposes pricing strategy and brand /channel-pack pricing strategy
- Constantly studying and analyzing consumer and market needs in order to meet or exceed them
- Proposes and implements the Innovation & Renovation strategy (60/40+, nutritional compass, etc.)
- Works closely with factories' R&D to ensure delivery of Innovation/ Renovation process
- Plans and prepares local launches (drive and monitor the performance)
- Accountable for the operational execution of the brand plan for all elements of the marketing mix
- Understands the profitability of the respective category and proposes the areas for improvement
- Monitors Market share, Sales out data and understands the process of Dynamic forecasting
- Collaborates and builds sustainable relationships with advertising and promotional agencies
- Collaborates with Trade Marketing, Finance, Logistics, Production, and Sales.
Skills on Resume:
- Marketing Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Brand Communication (Soft Skills)
- Pricing Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Market Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Innovation Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Project Execution (Hard Skills)
- Profitability Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Cross-functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
2. Culinary Training Manager , Fresh Harvest Cafe, Greenville, SC
Job Summary:
- Support NLM and Mission Catering by training participants in Culinary Training Program through real-life work skills.
- Works with Culinary Training Manager to ensure all food service events and orders are to Mission Catering standards.
- Support Culinary Training Manager with preparation of meats, side dishes, and desserts for catering events/orders.
- Support Culinary Training Manager with daily operations of The Harbor kitchen
- Nutritional meal planning and preparation of participant daily meals, scheduling, cost control, waste management, ordering and food procurement, inventory control, managing health and safety standards as per County Health Dept., OSHA and ServSafe guidelines.
- Ensures proper use, cleaning, and storage of food service equipment.
- Attend all required meetings and training.
- Support PRM and NLM staff in coordinating and providing food for staff training, events and holidays.
- Maintain ministry guidelines and procedures for all participants using accountability growth tools.
- Support growth of all NLM participants in addictions recovery, spiritual formation, life skills training, and culinary vocational development.
- Focus on developing job readiness skills of participants serving in the kitchen and Mission Catering
Skills on Resume:
- Culinary Training (Hard Skills)
- Food Service Standards (Hard Skills)
- Meal Preparation (Hard Skills)
- Kitchen Operations (Hard Skills)
- Nutritional Planning (Hard Skills)
- Health & Safety Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Team Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Participant Development (Soft Skills)
3. Culinary Manager, Gourmet Eats, Albany, NY
Job Summary:
- Support local culinary teams in the management of their local culinary programs to standard
- Ensure overall maintenance, cleanliness, and proper sanitation standards utilizing walkthroughs, checklists, and other accountability tools
- Supports the creation of menus to ensure all meals and snacks are varied, healthy, nutritious, and conform to the Newport Academy culinary program
- Support in staffing and managing kitchens within their region
- Responsible for the overall management of the culinary staff, including performance evaluations and identifying additional training
- Oversight of orders for all food and necessary kitchen supplies
- Attendance and participation in meetings
- Ensure kitchens in their region adheres to State Health and Hygiene Requirements
- Develop budgets and oversight of financial commitments made by culinary departments
Skills on Resume:
- Culinary Management (Hard Skills)
- Sanitation Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Menu Planning (Hard Skills)
- Kitchen Staffing (Hard Skills)
- Team Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Inventory Management (Hard Skills)
- Health Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Budget Oversight (Hard Skills)
4. Culinary Manager, Tasty Treats Bistro, Boise, ID
Job Summary:
- Liaise with managers of different departments to accomplish culinary department projects and goals
- Research, develop, recommend and implement sustainable standard operating procedures for the culinary department
- Develop operational systems, processes and policies to support better management reporting, information flow and coordination between business units
- Work collaboratively with fast-paced cross-functional teams to solve complex issues, set goals, track deliverables, and report out
- Monitor and analyze current system of production and work out strategies for improving
- Create, track and report program metrics for all on-going program efficiency
- Develop and manage vendor relationships, including sourcing, liaising and providing internal vendor support
- Consolidate information from across Tesla into easily digestible forms for team and executive reviews
Skills on Resume:
- Cross-department Liaison (Soft Skills)
- SOP Development (Hard Skills)
- Operational Systems (Hard Skills)
- Cross-functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Process Improvement (Hard Skills)
- Program Metrics (Hard Skills)
- Vendor Management (Hard Skills)
- Data Consolidation (Hard Skills)
5. Culinary Manager, Delicious Dishes Catering, Austin, TX
Job Summary:
- Create menu, detailed specifications, relationship building and enhancing the customer experience through food.
- Provide direction, focus, establish priorities and communicate expectations to Caterers to ensure delivery to service levels, contracts and food safety regulations and standards.
- Support the Inflight Catering Manager in the creation of a cohesive and aligned food service strategy
- Manage successful outcomes from menu workshops and menu presentations through agreed specifications and commitments with Caterers, which include quality and financial targets
- Participate in the strategic and operational business planning and execution of initiatives
- Seek out, quantify, and develop opportunities for process improvement
- Prepare budgets, forecasts, variance reporting and analysis and meal costings to ensure accurate and timely data is available and utilised in making the best business decisions.
- Negotiate competitive meal costs by challenging / disputing raw material and labour pricing as well as increases in costs, based on economic modelling to ensure the best possible price for outcome.
Skills on Resume:
- Menu Creation (Hard Skills)
- Customer Experience (Soft Skills)
- Catering Management (Hard Skills)
- Food Service Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Process Improvement (Hard Skills)
- Budget Management (Hard Skills)
- Financial Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Cost Negotiation (Hard Skills)
6. Culinary Manager, Urban Kitchen Creations, Portland, OR
Job Summary:
- Developing and standardizing recipes / final presentations of food
- Building a strong relationship with all food vendors to aid in managing food costs
- Directly managing the execution of all culinary operations for suites and rooftop party areas
- Ensuring all remaining culinary operations are preparing / serving food according to standards
- Verifying that all safety and sanitation standards are met throughout the ballpark
- Hiring, training and development of culinary staff
- Managing and scheduling employees
- Monitoring labor costs
- Executing food production, cleaning and safety audits
Skills on Resume:
- Recipe Standardization (Hard Skills)
- Vendor Relationship (Soft Skills)
- Culinary Operations (Hard Skills)
- Food Quality Control (Hard Skills)
- Safety Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Staff Management (Soft Skills)
- Employee Scheduling (Hard Skills)
- Labor Cost Monitoring (Hard Skills)
7. Culinary Manager, Flavorful Fare Restaurant, Charlotte, NC
Job Summary:
- Understand the consumer/shopper behavior to identify possible opportunities and issues for the baking category
- Activate Nestlé Brand Propositions coherently with the Central Category Strategy and execute it in a meaningful and effective way for the local context
- Contribute to the development of communication campaigns, engagement strategies and creates attractive and rewarding brand experiences.
- Work in partnership with communication agencies (ATL, Digital, Media, Packaging and BTL)
- Develop digital communication campaigns
- Define and implement the brand social media strategy (including Facebook and Instagram assets)
- Define and execute CRM strategy
- Define and execute the e-content strategy, leveraging local and regional content factories and hubs
- Define and execute lower funnel campaigns, working in partnership with digital and media agency
- Contribute to define the E-business Roadmap for the brand in collaboration with Zone-EMENA Dairy Category and local E-business Lead.
Skills on Resume:
- Consumer Insights (Hard Skills)
- Brand Activation (Hard Skills)
- Campaign Development (Hard Skills)
- Agency Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Digital Marketing (Hard Skills)
- Social Media Strategy (Hard Skills)
- CRM Strategy (Hard Skills)
- E-content Strategy (Hard Skills)
8. Culinary Manager, Epicurean Delights, Hartford, CT
Job Summary:
- Define and develop consumer campaigns, by leading multifunctional teams (purchasing, quality, packaging, legal, promotions department, CCSD, Sales, DSP, factories event managers).
- Understand in store environment, channels dynamics and customers’ needs
- Work in collaboration and synergy with Zone-EMENA Dairy Category for the multimarket I&R pipeline
- Define Innovation and renovation local pipeline and lead I2L projects (including also post launch evaluation) involving all the relevant stakeholders and business functions
- Provide recommendation for pricing and promotional strategy
- Work in close cooperation with finance department to build business cases for new products/new formats
- Tracks and monitors the performance and the competition evolution
- Contribute to the sales forecast analyzing both sell out and promo data
- Develop and execute strong, functionally aligned brand and ICP plan.
- Tracks and monitors the related performance and put in place corrective action.
- Understand business impact of PFME and TTS investment and manage/monitor PFME spending
Skills on Resume:
- Campaign Development (Hard Skills)
- Channel Dynamics (Hard Skills)
- Innovation Management (Hard Skills)
- Pricing Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Business Case Development (Hard Skills)
- Performance Tracking (Hard Skills)
- Sales Forecasting (Hard Skills)
- Budget Management (Hard Skills)
9. Culinary Manager, Fusion Flavors Cafe, Nashville, TN
Job Summary:
- Ensure health and safety standards are exceeded each day
- Work closely with Kitchen Manager to execute and supervise food prep and dish plating for delivered and in house meal service
- Lead weekly tasting for both delivered and in house recipe development pipeline
- Maintain recipe management software, building new recipes into the database, including pricing items and ingredients and overseeing inventory
- Assist in implementing the Apprentice training program and management.
- Lead team during Guest Chef dinners, coordinating with Guest Chefs on production and logistical needs
- Assist in menu planning and execution of catering orders for onsite events
- Maintain high standards of cleanliness, food quality, and behavior
- Assist in improving documentation and systems for kitchen operations, including scheduling, and prep planning
Skills on Resume:
- Safety Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Food Supervision (Hard Skills)
- Recipe Development (Hard Skills)
- Inventory Control (Hard Skills)
- Training Management (Soft Skills)
- Event Coordination (Soft Skills)
- Menu Planning (Hard Skills)
- Operational Systems (Hard Skills)
10. Culinary Manager, Coastal Cuisine Catering, Miami, FL
Job Summary:
- Make daily decisions that drive guest satisfaction, team engagement, and financial success for the restaurant
- Oversee culinary operations including but not limited to recipe execution, inventory, ordering, proper product rotation, and waste management.
- Build strong relationships with team members, guests and vendors.
- Establish relationships with the local community and undertake activities that comply with the company's social responsibility
- Manage Employees to make sure regulations are being followed and standards are always being upheld including health, safety, and hygiene.
- Hire and train new staff members
- Prep all cold and hot food items using prep worksheets
- Follow proper knife safety procedures
- Operate oven and hot prep equipment, ensure proper time/temp of all hot and cooked foods
- Possess fundamental understanding of P&L reports to understand ways to increase sales and profitability, reduce expenses, and drive team member engagement to hit company goals
- Control takings in the restaurant and administer payrolls
- Report to and attend regular meetings with area managers or head company representatives
Skills on Resume:
- Decision-Making (Soft Skills)
- Culinary Operations (Hard Skills)
- Relationship Building (Soft Skills)
- Community Engagement (Soft Skills)
- Regulation Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Staff Hiring/Training (Soft Skills)
- Food Preparation (Hard Skills)
- Financial Management (Hard Skills)
11. Culinary Manager, Savor the Moment Bistro, Omaha, NE
Job Summary:
- Scale and manage the day-to-day culinary production operations on the floor at a high standard with the support of supervisors & leads on the team
- High focus on efficiency and quality in production to ensure are producing the highest quality meals
- In charge of improving KPIs such as food costs, labor costs, quality scores, etc.
- Cultivate an amazing work culture and bring out the potential of each individual in growing a team
- Manage a team of 40+ currently, and more as we continue to grow.
- Continue developing and challenging to grow as a leader, offering the potential to recruit, develop, and lead more employees as continue to grow
- Lead or contribute to the research and purchase of equipment and automation technologies that will help streamline operations
- Develop QA processes and policies to ensure are serving the highest quality meals on a weekly basis
- Ensure comply with and ahead on food safety regulations & standards (HACCP, SOPs, GMPs…etc.)
- Focus on continuous improvement of food safety, high-quality meals, client retention, and overall client experience
- Lead and motivate by example
- Communicate regularly with upper management regarding problems or issues impacting production
- Evolve as the company grows and based on interest
Skills on Resume:
- Production Management (Hard Skills)
- Quality Focus (Hard Skills)
- KPI Management (Hard Skills)
- Team Development (Soft Skills)
- Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Equipment Acquisition (Hard Skills)
- Quality Assurance (Hard Skills)
- Safety Compliance (Hard Skills)
12. Culinary Manager, Culinary Creations, Sacramento, CA
Job Summary:
- Responsible for managing daily Cafe operations to include staffing, funds control, ordering subsistence and specialty beverages, and inventory management.
- Responsible for processing all paperwork related to inventory, purchasing, scheduling, payroll, personnel actions, performance appraisals, and performance awards.
- Provides supervision, training, guidance, and instructions to all café employees.
- Ensures employees & students are trained on all items sold.
- Trains staff to prepare take-out packages for special events and curbside delivery.
- Implements food handling and customer service training for all employees/students
- Must enforce safe food handling practices and sanitation principles.
- Serve as a barista, as well as prepare and deliver catered items as scheduled.
- Assures patron satisfaction by resolving complaints and other customer issues.
- Plans promotional activities and ensures they are marketed to the surrounding communities.
Skills on Resume:
- Operations Management (Hard Skills)
- Administrative Oversight (Hard Skills)
- Staff Supervision (Soft Skills)
- Training Delivery (Soft Skills)
- Food Safety (Hard Skills)
- Customer Satisfaction (Soft Skills)
- Barista Duties (Hard Skills)
- Promotion Planning (Soft Skills)
13. Culinary Manager, Palate Pleasers Cafe, Des Moines, IA
Job Summary:
- Manages budget to actual expenses and provides budget projections to leadership for quarterly financials.
- Facilitates Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) to develop short and long-term improvement ideas.
- Plans budget for food and beverage items.
- Responsible for accuracy of Services Employee Timekeeping System (TOAST) for staff.
- Reviews and endorses daily cash and inventory paperwork before it is turned in to the Business Office.
- Maintains equipment listing and schedules equipment preventive maintenance.
- Ensures facility is maintained in a clean and neat manner and is secured when not in operation.
- Maintains cafes at a high standard including passing health inspections.
- Immediately reports to Associate Dean and/or Campus Safety any work-related accidents in the Cafes.
- Meet and teach the assigned class(es) in accordance with course outlines
- Develop a course syllabus based on the approved college outline.
- Promptly submit required rosters, grade reports, evaluations, and academic reports.
- Follow the same accepted standards of conduct as the full-time faculty as described in applicable administrative procedures, which relate to satisfactory service and conduct becoming a faculty member.
Skills on Resume:
- Budget Management (Hard Skills)
- Process Improvement (Hard Skills)
- Food Budgeting (Hard Skills)
- Timekeeping Oversight (Hard Skills)
- Cash Handling (Hard Skills)
- Equipment Maintenance (Hard Skills)
- Facility Management (Hard Skills)
- Regulatory Compliance (Hard Skills)