Job description

Areas USA is seeking for an Amazing Energetic associate to join our team as a Sous Chef for our premier fine dining steakhouse, Cook & the Ox, located within Terminal 1 of the Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport.

Position Details

• Status - Full Time / Exempt
• Hourly Rate - $25
• Schedule - Must have open availability, including weekends and holidays.

Broad Functions: The Cook and the Ox Sous Chef assists with overseeing a kitchen with difficult to complex operations and managing the kitchen’s food and production processes as well as helping manage pars. This position participates in the preparation, seasoning and cooking of food, supervises kitchen staff, and performs all other responsibilities as directed.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assists in supervising the day-to-day activities of kitchen staff, assigns responsibilities for specified work, and sets deadlines to ensure the timely completion of work ensuring labor standards are met

• Promotes safety and sanitation, inspects all food products handling, establishes and maintains safe practices.

• Assists with menu planning, inventory, and managing of supplies

• Acts as a liaison between FOH and BOH staff in the chef’s absence

• Maintains effective cost control, service and quality standards to produce maximum sales and profits

• Complies with company and airline standards of service, operating procedures, as well as those of all applicable regulatory agencies, and ensures on a daily basis that all products are prepared and presented in accordance with company or airline standards

• May serve as a resource to others in the resolution of complex problems and issues * Maintains effective communication and positive associate relations.

• Provides the highest quality of customer service to guests at all times, to include ensuring the proper training of all staff and supporting associates to ensure customer satisfaction and product quality

Skills and Qualifications:

• Requires a High School diploma or general education development (GED) diploma; post-secondary culinary training preferred

• Requires 3 to 5 years’ experience with kitchen operations and staff supervision

• Must be currently be certified in Serve Safe Management certification course or can obtain certification

• Demonstrates team management, delegation, issue resolution, coaching skills and ability to motivate others and act as a change agent

• Demonstrates ability to stay organized and deal with multiple priorities/issues simultaneously under pressure with a sense of urgency within specific time

• Requires the ability to speak, read and comprehend instructions (and documented recipes), short correspondence and policy documents, as well as converse comfortably with individuals

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the associate is regularly required to stand for long periods of time, use hands and fingers, communicate verbally, and hear. The associate is frequently required to reach with hands and arms, climb, balance, taste, and smell. The associate is also occasionally required to walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and either lift or move up to 35 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to focus.

About us

Areas USA is a world-class international leader in casual dining and quick serve food, beverage, and retail services in the travel hospitality industry. With an operating presence in 12 countries throughout Europe and the Americas including US, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Chile, and Mexico, Areas offers a broad range of food services designed to exceed the expectations of travelers in airports, highway service plazas and railway stations. Areas serves over 348 million guests per year, has 22,500 employees, and is ranked #3 in travel food and retail services worldwide.

Areas have a presence in the following US cities: Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Miami, Orlando, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, Maryland, Indianapolis, Detroit, Newark.

Equal Opportunity Employer - Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Disabled

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $25.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Experience level:

• 3 years
• 4 years
• 5 years

Pay rate:

• Hourly pay

Shift:

• 8 hour shift

Weekly day range:

• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Work setting:

• Bar
• Fine dining restaurant

Work Location: One location

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