Upscale French Restaurant Group is looking to hire a professional experienced Executive Pastry Chef to oversee all our NYC Locations. As executive pastry chef, you will develop and test recipes for the restaurants and Café. In this role you will hire, train, and supervise staff according to the Group’s standards across all locations. The Executive Pastry Chef will be responsible for ensuring the quality preparation of the restaurant plated desserts. You will work closely with the operations team to ensure food and labor costs are within targeted budgets.
Location: Le Bilboquet, Le Bilboquet Café, Fleming
This position is based in New York but may require flexibility to travel between our Palm Beach and Sag Harbor locations.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Oversees company pastry and dessert programs.
- Oversees all culinary operations at Café Bilboquet.
- Maintains annual calendar, planning for holidays and special occasions.
- Makes the staff schedule and approves time off for hourly pastry employees.
- Ensures compliance with Department of Health standards.
- Executes the dessert menus and creates new seasonal items.
- Supports and helps the prep teams.
- During service, expedites and stays responsible for every dessert coming out of the kitchen.
- Maintains cleaning and maintenance schedule for the pastry stations in the kitchen, and schedules maintenance and repairs when necessary.
- Executes ordering with Chefs de Cuisine and Sous Chefs.
- Maintain labor and food costs while optimizing output to meet company standards.
Skills and Qualifications:
- 5+ years of executive/lead pastry chef experience in a similar concept.
- 1+ years of multi-unit leadership experience (preferred).
- A bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience is required.
- Strong knowledge of restaurant industry operations, safety, and sanitation standards.
- Strong communication skills with ability to motivate employees and obtain positive results.
- Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills, results-oriented, and customer-focused.
- The ability to work with a high degree of independence.
- Strong analytical and decision-making skills.
- Ability to work flexible hours and travel between assigned restaurants.
- Hold a current Food Handler’s license or must obtain within a month of hire.
- Microsoft Office Suite proficiency (Word, Excel, Outlook).
Compensation and Benefits:
Compensation Details: Salary ($110,000-$120,000/Year)
***WEEKEND AVAILABILITY NEEDED
***EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
Le Bilboquet provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type with respect to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
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