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Job Description

Job Description

Head Chef Kitchen Manager

 

Our elegant Bistro, contained within our unique high-end retail destination, is seeking a creative and experienced Head Chef/Kitchen Manager to lead our culinary program in Baton Rouge, LA. This unique role blends restaurant dining, event catering, and packaged culinary products within a one-of-a-kind high-end retail destination. This is a rare opportunity to combine creativity, leadership, and operational excellence in a dynamic environment where retail, dining, and hospitality come together.

As Head Chef, you will oversee all back-of-house operations, including menu development, culinary execution, catering, and packaged food markets . You’ll collaborate closely with the Bistro General Manager to elevate both the dining and retail experience, ensuring every dish, event, and product reflects the refined standards of our brand. This is a great opportunity to build a culinary program inside a thriving lifestyle destination. You’ll enjoy creative freedom, a supportive management team, and the chance to leave your mark on a brand that celebrates style, hospitality, and exceptional experiences in one of Baton Rouge, LA’s most unique high-end destinations.

Title of Position: Head Chef/Kitchen Manager

Job Description: Our Head Chef must have passion and dedication for the culinary arts and share their experience and enthusiasm with the rest of the team. Maintaining high standards for cleanliness, food quality and guest service will be your number 1 priority as our Head Chef. Recruiting, training, supervising and evaluating the culinary personnel will be maintained by the Head Chef. Exemplary leadership abilities are a must to be successful with our brand. Administrative functions including scheduling, inventory control, catering functions and large events will also be the responsibility of the Head Chef.

 

  Benefits:

• Industry Competitive Salary ($52,000 - $56,000)
• Paid Time Off
• Medical Benefits
• Career Growth Potential
• Professional Atmosphere
• Quality of Life

 

Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a Head Chef, Executive Chef, or Senior Sous Chef in a high-volume restaurant, boutique café, or catering operation.
• The Head Chef must have creativity and vision to design dishes and packaged foods that balance flavor, presentation, and profitability.
• A requirement for the Kitchen Manager is a strong background with team building and mentoring others and must be able to inspire and motivate the team.
• The Head Chef must have proven success in financial responsibility, cost control and inventory management
• The Head Chef must be able to follow the systems that are already in place within the restaurant and hold their team accountable to those standards. 
• The Head Chef must have the ability to thrive in a dynamic environment that blends restaurant dining, event catering, and retail food markets .

 

Apply Now – Head ChefKitchen Manager located in Baton Rouge, LA.

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Company Description

Since 2000, Gecko Hospitality and its dedicated Franchise Partners and Recruiters throughout the United States have been pioneers in the hospitality recruiting industry. The value that Gecko Hospitality provides to its Clientele is evident in the advanced networking and technology skills our professional recruiters possess in identifying qualified restaurant professionals.

Our national network consists of 37 regional offices that are driven to meet the needs of the hospitality industry. In addition, Gecko Hospitality offers the largest selection of hospitality jobs, restaurant jobs, hotel jobs, resort jobs and club management jobs online. Our specialized, hospitality-focused team covers all 50 states and Canada with over 80 Franchise Partners and recruiters. Gecko Hospitality was founded on providing the finest restaurant jobs nationwide to the highest performing candidates. More importantly, our Franchise Partners and recruiters began their careers in hospitality and there is no finer training ground for recruiting than real life experience.

At Gecko Hospitality, we are passionate about making sure that every member of our recruiting team is familiar with our philosophies. In the same way that we learn about people when developing relationships and friendships, we want our people to have a sense of Gecko Hospitality's values and insight into our company's "personality." With this insight comes a greater understanding of how values "fit" with Gecko Hospitality's values, why we do things the way we do as well as providing a basis for making decisions that are appropriate to those values. We all play a part in keeping these traditions and philosophies alive.

We want every member of our recruiting team to understand that we are only as good as how well we follow these philosophies on an every day basis. Gecko Hospitality is all about achieving results by being motivated. This motivation to achieve results comes from within. No one can motivate us, nor can we motivate anyone else. As leaders, all that we can do is provide an environment where people motivate themselves to achieve mutually beneficial goals. Along with this philosophy, each team member possesses the following traits for which we are proud: honesty, integrity, desire, determination, listening skills, rapid learning, responding in a timely manner, effective communication skills, thoroughness, empathy, compassion, and most of all we want every team member to have a strong work ethic that motivates them to produce superior results both for our candidates and for our Clients.

At Gecko Hospitality, you certainly have... more choices

Company Description

Since 2000, Gecko Hospitality and its dedicated Franchise Partners and Recruiters throughout the United States have been pioneers in the hospitality recruiting industry. The value that Gecko Hospitality provides to its Clientele is evident in the advanced networking and technology skills our professional recruiters possess in identifying qualified restaurant professionals.\r\n\r\nOur national network consists of 37 regional offices that are driven to meet the needs of the hospitality industry. In addition, Gecko Hospitality offers the largest selection of hospitality jobs, restaurant jobs, hotel jobs, resort jobs and club management jobs online. Our specialized, hospitality-focused team covers all 50 states and Canada with over 80 Franchise Partners and recruiters. Gecko Hospitality was founded on providing the finest restaurant jobs nationwide to the highest performing candidates. More importantly, our Franchise Partners and recruiters began their careers in hospitality and there is no finer training ground for recruiting than real life experience.\r\n\r\nAt Gecko Hospitality, we are passionate about making sure that every member of our recruiting team is familiar with our philosophies. In the same way that we learn about people when developing relationships and friendships, we want our people to have a sense of Gecko Hospitality's values and insight into our company's "personality." With this insight comes a greater understanding of how values "fit" with Gecko Hospitality's values, why we do things the way we do as well as providing a basis for making decisions that are appropriate to those values. We all play a part in keeping these traditions and philosophies alive.\r\n\r\nWe want every member of our recruiting team to understand that we are only as good as how well we follow these philosophies on an every day basis. Gecko Hospitality is all about achieving results by being motivated. This motivation to achieve results comes from within. No one can motivate us, nor can we motivate anyone else. As leaders, all that we can do is provide an environment where people motivate themselves to achieve mutually beneficial goals. Along with this philosophy, each team member possesses the following traits for which we are proud: honesty, integrity, desire, determination, listening skills, rapid learning, responding in a timely manner, effective communication skills, thoroughness, empathy, compassion, and most of all we want every team member to have a strong work ethic that motivates them to produce superior results both for our candidates and for our Clients.\r\n\r\nAt Gecko Hospitality, you certainly have... more choices

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