Food, Beverage and Hospitality Manager (Full-time contract)
Senior Persons Living Connected
Scarborough Ontario
Salary: Neg Per Hour
Leads, supervises and directs all dining room and kitchen staff
- Provides supervision to Team leader, dining room and kitchen staff.
- Provides guidance and direction and conducts performance management, including discipline with staff and provides coaching and mentoring to meet or exceed established expectations.
- Trains, develops and motivates culinary staff and other staff in the Food, Beverage and Hospitality Services to meet and exceed established food preparation standards on a consistent basis.
- Revise and report on staffing levels to ensure that customer service, operational needs and financial objectives are met. Hires staff in collaboration with HR department and supervisor.
- Ensures that the leadership in the dining room service meets the expectations of quality customer service provided by dining room staff.
- Ensures staff compliance with all legislative guidelines for the food industry, the organization’s policies and procedures as well as the FB& H Operations Guideline manual.
- Maintains confidentiality of personal information of staff, volunteers, residents and clients.
Prepares and cooks quality meals in accordance with safe food handling practices
- Develops, designs and update menus for breakfast, lunch, dinner, day programs and special events as required collaboratively with the team.
- Prepares and cooks a wide variety of regular and special diet meals according to prescribed or planned menus based on accepted nutritional practices.
- Ensures prepared meals are creative and attractively presented during planning before serving and are frequently reviewed when finished for quality and presentation before the orders are sent to guests.
- Establishes correct portion sizes for seniors using the food services industry standards as a benchmark.
- Determines quantity of food supply requirements and costs.
- Follows proper safe food handling practices for all food products and ensures that all products are prepared in a consistent manner and meet culinary appearance
- Ensures that all equipment in the kitchen is properly maintained and in working order in accordance with Public Health and the Restaurant Industry Standards.
- Works cooperatively with other Cooks to ensure all food preparation is completed in a timely manner, meal service is conducted efficiently and proper supplies and equipment are readily available.
- Ensures that kitchen associates
are trained in the fundamentals of good cooking and excellent plate
presentations.
Purchasing and inventory management
- Assists with developing and maintaining Purchasing Standards for the kitchen.
- Explore competitive costs for goods and service and make appropriate recommendations for changes that meets the needs of Food, Beverage and Hospitality Services.
- Coordinates the inventory of all food items and dry goods on a monthly basis and order new supplies appropriately.
- Maintains quality levels of inventory, receiving and storage of products.
- Reviews inventory of supplies on hand and communicates orders for food supplies, ingredients, other consumables and paper products on a scheduled basis as determined by menu and estimated number of customers.
- Checks and inspects deliveries of food supplies for quantity and quality of items and rejects or returns incorrect items or poor quality of fresh products.
- Ensures delivered products are date stamped, labelled and stored appropriately according to Safe Food Handling guidelines.
- Provides monthly operational reports which includes revenues and expenses to supervisor.
Performs other support duties
- Reports to supervisor about all existing or potential hygiene and safety hazard and risk.
- Maintains kitchen equipment, reports to supervisor about needs of purchase, necessary repairs, and any safety concerns in a timely manner.
- Cleans and sanitizes all food preparation equipment and ensures they are kept in safe and operable condition on a daily basis
- Works cooperatively with staff and volunteers to ensure clients’ needs and Centre responsibilities are met.
- Provides back up to department staff when absent
- Reports to supervisor about any food services related issues for quality improvement.
- Attends and participates in meetings, training and other SPLC’s activities.
Promotes health and safety of customers, staff and self
- Complies with and conforms to all legislated safety regulations and related policies such as Occupational Health and Safety Act, WHMIS, Food Handlers Guideline, Food, Beverage and Hospitality Guideline.
- Performs work safely according to departmental and organization procedures and policies and ensures safety of self and others.
- Follows and adheres to safe food handling, preparation, storage and sanitation standards based on Safe Food Handling guidelines.
- Promotes customers safety by preparing food customized to meet their dietary needs.
- Ensures proper grooming and hygiene standards for all dining room and kitchen staff.
- Uses equipment, materials and protective devices in safe manner as required and performs pre-use start-up inspections of equipment.
- Checks if the kitchen environment and practices are meeting health and safety standards for customers, volunteers and staff on regular basis.
Education
- Red Seal designation or Trades
Designation
- University degree or Community
College Diploma in Food, Beverage and Hospitality or equivalent
- Food Handlers Certificate
Skills & Experience
- Four years culinary experience
for large group of customers
- Experience in food, beverage
and hospitality services, especially for seniors
- Experience supervising staff
and/or volunteers
- Experience developing and
designing menus for all occasions
- Experience working in a
culturally diverse environment an asset
- Experience maintaining
confidentiality
- Knowledge in preparing
nutritional meals for seniors, including special diets
- Excellent leadership, planning,
organizational and time management skills
- Effective communication and
interpersonal skills
- Excellent problems solving
skills with the ability to manage and prioritize competing tasks
- Detail oriented and resourceful
with the ability to take initiative
- Able to work as part of a team
in busy and high-pressure environment
- Proficient using Microsoft
Office, specifically Work and Excel, with some understanding of social
media
Working Conditions
- Working in a very fast paced
kitchen environment
- Exposure to hot temperatures
in the kitchen
- Standing for long periods of
time
- Exposure to hot food and
beverages
- Exposure to sharp and hot
kitchen equipment
- Exposure to seniors with
diverse personalities
Other
- Vulnerable Sector screening
required
- Proof of full vaccination for external applicants
Job Overview
Posted Date: 20 Mar 2024
Location: Scarborough Ontario
Salary: Neg Per Hour
Company Information
Social services organization in Toronto, Ontario
Name: Senior Persons Living Connected
Web: https://www.splc.ca/