- Bachelor's Degree or related Culinary degree.
- Minimum of 2 years of industry and culinary management experience.
- Previous experience controlling food and labour costs.
- Previous experience with demonstration cooking, menu development, and pricing development.
- Passion for leadership and teamwork.
- Eye for detail to achieve operational excellence.
- Excellent guest service skills
- Able to launch new concepts and promotions, elevate guest experiences, lead, train and develop the team and cost management
Executive Chef - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Anantara
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Job Description
As Executive Chef you will be responsible for leading the overall kitchen operations of the hotel. You will train and manage kitchen team members, supervise/coordinate all related culinary activities, estimate food consumption and purchase of food, select and develop recipes. Further you would need to standardize production of dishes to ensure consistent quality, establish presentation, technique and quality standards, plan and price menus, ensure proper equipment operation/maintenance, and ensure proper safety and sanitation in the kitchen. You may be required to cook certain dishes for special occasions and will oversee special catering events. The Executive Chef is directly responsible for hiring, people development and performance reviews of the kitchen team and will report to the General Manager. Additionally the Executive Chef will be responsible for driving revenue and ensuring the profitable kitchen operations.
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