Job description

About Us

Tomato Sherpa delivers recipe kits for those looking to bolster their cooking skills, eat seasonally, and simplify their daily dinner experience. These weekly recipe kits provide pre-measured ingredients and innovative recipes that are ready to prepare. They replace hours of planning and shopping with a wholesome experience for individuals and families.

About the Sherpa Chef

Are you passionate about healthy, local, creative food and inspiring others to enjoy the benefits? Join our team of food lovers, designers, efficiency freaks, and cooks to build the Bay Area’s most convenient and healthiest recipe box offering. This is an opportunity to explore and test a variety of culturally and nutritionally diverse recipes each month and present them in a way that’s approachable, concise, and informative, while making our customers smile.

The Sherpa Chef is charged with the creation and execution of our weekly recipes. The ideal candidate is able to balance numerous details while managing food costs, margins, and infuse every aspect of their efforts with the underlying value of sustainability.

Expected Outcomes

Product

• Create recipes that lead to high customer satisfaction through creativity, control food costs, take advantage of seasonality, and support a healthy and balanced approach.
• Provide detailed nutrition information for recipes and make that information relevant to the customer.
• Write, test, and collaborate with the marketing team to create recipe materials.
• Coordinate tasting events that delight customers.
• Connect with customers and staff to constantly receive feedback and tinker with the recipes.

Operations

• All product and operations related purchasing according to sourcing guidelines.
• Create, manage, and improve an efficient process for kit assembly, reusable packaging, and delivery.
• Manage kitchen operations, including staffing, scheduling, and assembly/fulfillment.
• Continuously improve operational efficiency and costs.
• Ensure all local, state, and federal food safety and operating standards are met.
• Provide easy and useful tips and guides to help convert the most naive cook into a confident chef.
• Collaborate patiently and openly with a team of entrepreneurs through infancy and growth.

Experience

• 5+ years in management of kitchen or catering operations (or applicable experience).
• Purchasing and inventory management.
• Team management and shift scheduling.
• Scaling a small operation while ensuring quality of product and overall seamless customer experience.
• Managing food costs and margins.
• Nutrition planning interest and knowledge.
• Environmental, human and business steward and stalwart.

Compensation

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Application instructions

Deadline

no deadline