Group Executive Chef – Regent Select Hotel

Job Description

The Regent Group is looking for dedicated and enthusiastic individuals to fill the following vacancy.

Group Executive Chef-1

An Executive Chef oversees the daily operations of restaurant and hotel kitchens. This include hiring, training and overseeing kitchen staff, and ensuring a high-quality, cost-effective product for Regent City Hotel, Regent Kgale Lodge and Manong Game Lodge.

Requirements:

• must possess at least a diploma in Tourism and Hospitality or any related qualification.
• at least 5 years experience as an executive chef with traceable references.

Duties

• Develops and motivates supervisors and culinary staff to meet and exceed established food preparation standards on a consistent basis.
• Display exceptional leadership by providing a positive work environment, counselling employees as appropriate and demonstrating a dedicated and professional approach to management.

Should be able to provide direction for all day-to-day operations in the kitchen.

• Understand employee positions well enough to perform duties in employees’ absence or determine appropriate replacements to fill gaps.
• Provides guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
• Utilizes interpersonal and communication skills to lead, influence, and kitchen staff.
• should advocate sound financial/business decision-making, demonstrates honesty and integrity, and leads by example.
• Improves service by communicating and assisting individuals to understand guest needs, providing guidance, feedback, and individual coaching when needed.
• Delegates as appropriate to develop supervisors and subordinates to accept responsibility and meet clearly defined goals and objectives.
• Actively involves in menu development and maintaining updated and accurate costing of all dishes prepared and sold in the Food and Beverage operation.
• Determines how food should be presented, and create decorative food displays.
• Recognizes superior quality products, presentations and flavour.
• Ensures compliance with food handling and sanitation standards.
• Follows proper handling and right temperature of all food products.
• Ensures all equipment in the kitchen is adequately maintained and in working order in accordance with local Health department and hotel standards.
• Coordinates with the purchasing department and is responsible for the acquisition of needed goods and services.
• Actively responds to and handles guest problems and complaints.
• Maintain Quality levels of receiving, storage, production and presentation of food.
• Trains kitchen associates on the fundamentals of good cooking and excellent plate presentations. Also interview and hire new applicants for kitchen.
• Ensures disciplinary procedures and documentation are completed according to hotel operational Standard and Management Policy.

Interested Candidates should email their CVs and qualifications to [email protected] and mention the title they are applying for as a Subject.
Hand deliveries are at Regent Select Hotel opposite the University of Botswana or at Manong Game Lodge.
Closing date is the 28th of January 2022.
No applications will be reviewed after the closing date.
Please note that only shortlisted candidates will contacted