Cholon Restaurant Concepts hiring Back of House Staff in Denver, CO

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Full Time • Hourly ($18.29 - $30.00)
Expired: Apr 23, 2024

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Cholon Restaurant Concepts is opening two new restaurants in the Sloans Lake neighborhood!

Gusto Italia - Set to open on the ground floor of Lakehouse in March 2024, Gusto will feature playful interpretations of dishes from all over Italy, including pizzas, pasta, and an array of antipasti selections, like melted leek focaccia or fresh mozzarella di bufala.

ChoLon - Chef Lon Symensma’s original concept opened downtown in 2010 and has become a staple in the Denver dining scene. The menu features Southeast Asian cuisine and is known for its French onion soup dumplings. We are incredibly excited to be opening our third Cholon location in Sloans Lake.

We are looking to hire passionate back-of-house staff who efficiently and consistently produce the highest quality menu items. Line cooks take full ownership of their daily preparation and execution of food items in their stations. Following recipes, procedures, and presentation standards consistently to ensure the best possible product is produced and executed. Line Cooks are team players who assist one another and work with the service team to exceed our guests'' expectations and provide them with nothing less than extraordinary dining experiences.

Job description:

Job Details We are seeking career-minded and talented back-of-house staff all line cooks, pastry cooks, and wok chefs,  to join our new Gusto/Cholon Concept at The Lakehouse building at Sloans Lake.

Compensation Details

Hourly ($18.29 - $30.00)

Benefits & Perks: Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Dining Discounts RDT Pass Program. 

Position Details:  Four day work week  for 35-40 hours per week

Sunday through Saturday operations

Dinner service hours are 5pm - closing and evening shift begins at 3pm

Lunch service hours TBD

Hourly compensation is negotiable depending on experience 

Position requirements:

Availability for full-time workweek 

Restaurant experience preferred

Punctuality 

Pays careful attention to detail 

Has a sense of urgency and strong communication skills

Ability to work cleanly & efficiently at all times 

Ability to take direction from BoH and FoH managers 

Willingness to execute on multiple cold and hot stations 

Maintain proper food handling and food safety guidelines


Compensation Details

Compensation: Hourly ($18.29 - $30.00)

Benefits & Perks: Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Commuter Benefits, Dining Discounts

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Part of ChoLon Restaurant Concepts

ChoLon Restaurant Concepts was co-founded and is operated by Chef Lon Symensma and Christopher Davis-Massey. In 2010, Lon moved from New York to Denver looking for new adventures and he partnered with Christopher, a long-time family friend and lawyer here in Denver, to launch the project that later became ChoLon Modern Asian – the group’s flagship restaurant.

Before his move, Symensma earned two stars from the New York Times during his time helming the kitchen at Buddakan in New York City. He had already honed his skills and passions as an apprentice in France, Italy, and Spain at Michelin-starred restaurants and San Sebastian’s famed Arzak. At age 19 Symensma won a silver medal in the 1996 Culinary Olympics. He went on to spend several years training under Jean-Georges Vongerichten, including helping to open Jean-Georges Shanghai.

ChoLon, which means “big market” and refers to the largest Chinese-influenced market in Saigon, Vietnam, is Symensma’s homage to Southeast Asia and the years he spent traveling and living in that region. It was through this restaurant that Denver became familiar with Symensma’s keen ability to translate the flavors, textures, colors, and stories of the Far East into dishes that can be enjoyed for lunch or dinner any day of the week. (Indeed, Symensma’s soup dumplings have become something of a local icon!) It wasn’t just Denver that took notice of ChoLon either: In 2011, the restaurant was a James Beard finalist for Best New Restaurant in America and landed on Details Magazine’s Top 10 Best New Asian Restaurants in America. The accolades have continued through the years with nods from Food & Wine, Westword, and Eater Denver, as well as being listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top 25 Restaurants eight years since its opening.

In March 2015, the group opened Cho77 Street Food, Symensma’s modern take on Asian street food. Where ChoLon is polished and upscale, Cho77 is more casual, taking its inspiration from Thai food stalls, Vietnamese street carts, and Singaporean hawker centers. Eight months after opening, Eater Denver named Cho77 the Restaurant of the Year. In January 2019, the group moved Cho77 downtown next to LeRoux and ChoLon, where they always imagined it would be.

In December 2018, CRC opened LeRoux European Cuisine, named as a tribute to Chef Xavier LeRoux, one of Symensma’s early CIA mentors. Sourcing heavily from his culinary beginnings and the 10 years he spent working in the restaurant industry before he began experimenting with Asian food, with LeRoux Symensma focuses on Western-European fare and old-world wines, prepared with seasonal, local ingredients.

In November 2019, the group opened ChoLon’s second location in Central Park. Joining the team is Chef Michelle Xiao, who was a dim sum chef at Buddakan when Lon served as Executive Chef. Xiao has over thirty years of dim sum experience and moved to Denver from New York City in 2019. You’ll find her behind the dim sum counter as soon as you walk into ChoLon Central Park, showcasing her unique skills in the form of delicate dumplings.

Stay tuned for more information about upcoming projects!

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