Kitchen Manager (m/f/d)

Our team is driven by high standards regarding the quality of our food and customer service. We expect all our meals to be fresh, innovative, healthy, and satisfying. As our Assistant Kitchen Manager, you will be at the forefront of these operations, ensuring we continue to provide an exceptional food experience. Your leadership will be instrumental in supporting, motivating, and educating each employee and in creating a positive, customer-oriented environment. Our team is deeply committed to serving our customers and providing service excellence. We are excited to welcome a new Assistant Kitchen Manager who shares this commitment and is eager to contribute to our mission.

Your mission

• Assists in overseeing all aspects of kitchen operations. Maintains and ensures unit compliance with Bella & Bona policies and procedures, inventory procedures, and all applicable HACCP guidelines.
• Assists with planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, scheduling, and delegating responsibility to the staff.
• Ensures the staff meets the kitchen's KPIs daily. Assists the Kitchen Manager, as assigned. Ensures adherence to all systems, procedures, and policies.
• Coordinates with the city manager and creates, maintains, and implements all unit standard operating procedures.
• Assists in controlling food costs and usage by following proper procedures, standard recipes, and waste control procedures. Directly supervises all assigned subordinate staff.
• Assists in training staff and kitchen personnel in the safe operation of all kitchen equipment & utensils, cleanliness, and sanitation practices; ensures all team members have the right tools, knowledge & equipment to do their jobs safely & effectively.
• Evaluates employee performance and provides guidance and feedback to assigned staff. Oversees daily prep to ensure operation has the appropriate amount of product for the day and that the product meets our quality standards; ensures prep lists are completed accurately and communicated clearly.
• Performs daily line checks before production and detailed station closing. Assists with daily and weekly inventory and communicates the items to management.
• Checks and maintains proper food holding and refrigeration temperature control points.
• Manages daily & weekly deep cleaning and facility maintenance duties; maintains appropriate cleaning schedules for kitchen floors, mats, walls, hoods, other equipment and food storage areas.

Your profile

Education: Specialized or technical training.
Experience: 2 years.
Expertise: One year plus experience in a supervisory role within a high-volume full-service kitchen environment. Strong track record of success in previous assignments demonstrating upward career mobility. Demonstrated knowledge of pertinent health and safety laws and regulations.

About us

Bella & Bona is a venture-capital-backed food-tech business offering a workplace food program that office workers love and look forward to every day.

Our scalable dark kitchen operations and investments in data and technology automation allow us to consistently deliver high-quality food, optimize health and nutritional values, while lowering costs, and considerably reducing food waste and CO2 emissions.

The company raised in January 2020 a $3 million round led by Plug and Play, with additional funding from Rovagnati, Ambrosi, and other investors with a strong entrepreneurial background (former or current McKinsey, Google, Auto1, BCG, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Rocket Internet, Foodora).

We're looking for talented colleagues who want to advance their careers and help scale our business across Munich & Berlin!