Kitchen / Bakery Manager
- Date Posted July 11, 2024
- Location Wardensville, WV
- Category Culinary
- Job type Full-Time
Company description
The Modern Mountain General Store Reimagined: Located in a historic, old feed store near where the long-gone Winchester+Western Wardensville Railroad station and Lost River Railroad tracks converged, we feature a from-scratch bakery and espresso bar, biergarten event space, and showcase over 300 local artisans, crafters, woodworkers and consigners that allow us to fill every corner of our 5,000sf showroom with stuff you want and covet.
We love West Virginia and so will you. Let us help you curate your WV experience and we promise you will want to shop, play and live here, too.
Job description
Duties + Responsibilities of Kitchen Manager:
Management
o Working and planning alongside LRTP Store Manager to ensure consistent vision and messaging.
o Managing suitable work schedules for kitchen staff members that ebb and flow with demand.
o Training staff to produce high-quality bakery items while following proper food handling procedures.
o Utilizing cost calculator to track and maintain recipe costs and adjust prices to reflect adequate profit margins.
o Setting and tracking kitchen sales goals throughout the year.
o Establishing SOPs for new employees.
o Standardizing and organizing recipes and procedures with easy-to-follow visuals.
o Managing relationships with food vendors.
o Assisting with customer orders, catering, special events, and wholesale opportunities.
o Educating FOH staff on new menu items, allergen restrictions, and other necessary info that may be relevant to the customer experience.
o Maintaining a fun and functional work environment.
Daily Production + Inventory
o Managing daily kitchen prep and production.
o Ensuring that the bakery is adequately stocked with quality baking ingredients, supplies, packaging, and labels.
o Tracking weekly inventory and maintaining updated shopping lists (Schencks, Webstaurant, Amazon, Kerr’s, WGM, CJ Morgan Farms, etc).
o Ensuring that kitchen space, baking tools, utensils, and equipment are properly cleaned, sanitized, and in working order.
o Strategically arranging bakery items in display cases to encourage customer purchases.
o Enforcing excellent food safety practices.
o Inspecting bakery items to ensure that established standards on quality, uniformity, and aesthetic appeal are met.
o Planning necessary production based on LY’s sales data, upcoming holidays, community events, etc.
o Maintaining, adjusting, and creating new menu items to keep up with customer demand.
o Managing and limiting product waste.
Compensation
this position is: hourly, $20/hr +Application instructions
Deadline
no deadline