Required Years of Experience
0-1 years
Job Details
You can be part of a kind and caring team that delivers a nurturing environment for our staff and our guests. Our restaurant is cozy and elegant: family dinners, date-night for couples, friends enjoying each other, and children smiling for their favorite Gina pasta! Our menu comes from Gina, my Mom, from Agrigento, Sicily. Gina believed that food is love. Our restaurant is entrepreneurial, excited, and fun. We are bringing a vibrant local Sicilian/Italian cuisine to the DC-Maryland area.
We are trying to bring new humanistic approaches to managing the kitchen and culinary arts in our restaurant, so we encourage early-stage career applicants, such as recent culinary school graduates (or soon to graduate), and we also encourage mid-career chefs who are looking to change traditional team approaches for improving the way restaurant staff cooperate to deliver great food and service.
We are under construction and we open this December-January in Gaithersburg, Maryland at Kentlands Market Square. You can read more details about our restaurant, mission at www.GinasCooking.com and you can email us at [email protected]
Gina always said to our family, "Take care of each other." So, we aim for our staff to take care of each other as we take care of our guests. Our staff will participate in the growth of Gina's, so we offer profit sharing and potential partnership-equity in our company. We also offer health insurance, 401K retirement package, and vacation benefits.
We seek a candidate with an interest in Italian/Sicilian cuisine. Our restaurant is gluten free (GF) based on our ("senza glutine") techniques from Italy and Sicily, and we are seeking candidates willing to learn/execute our GF culinary methods. We will work together with you to implement operations practices that will delight our guests and cultivate a fulfilling professional environment for you and our staff-team.
We are seeking a candidate who is interested in working in the DC/Maryland/Virginia (DMV). We can negotiate coverage of relocation moving costs for those willing to move to Maryland. We are a community-based restaurant, so we are hoping to find a candidate that would enjoy working with our Maryland team to bring our special foods and fine dining to Maryland. We have a Culinary Director, CEO, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and COO who will support you, so this will be a collaborative team dynamic. We are using best-practice technologies and management strategies to integrate FOH and BOH operations for efficient communications, service, and team-building, which will make the CDC role more rewarding.
Our mission statement says: "To create and serve delicious, authentic and heart-warming Sicilian cuisine with utmost hospitality, joyful togetherness, and nurturing care for our guests, staff, partners and community." We hope to find a candidate for this position who would enjoy helping us build this mission.
Position Summary
Pre Opening Responsibilities:
- Learn Gina’s menu and concept
- Understand SOPs and health/safety procedures
- Help hire and train kitchen staff
- Assist in BOH-related procedures
Post Opening Responsibilities:
- Help cultivate a great BOH team
- Contribute positive, composed, and respectful leadership during meal services
- Ensure consistency in the execution of dishes to maintain excellent quality food
- Maintain health/safety compliance during day to day operations
- Provide feedback and coaching to BOH team during and outside of service
- Manage food ordering, receiving, and inventory levels
- Communicate with FOH staff to ensure smooth service
What Makes This Position Unique 🌟
- Opportunity to shape Gina's team culture in a new restaurant concept that can expand to other locations.
- Opportunity for profit sharing, leadership team and potential co-ownership equity
- A driven, personable, and passionate leadership team that will support you along the way
- Novel local Sicilian cuisine as a new interpretation of popular Italian techniques
Traits we are looking for:
- Warm, genuine hospitality
- Positive energy
- Team player mindset
- Humility
- Willingness to learn and try new things
- Attention to detail and organizational skills
Please apply through this link or send us a resume at [email protected]
Compensation Details
Compensation: Salary ($80,000.00 - $100,000.00)
Benefits & Perks: Health Insurance, Paid Time Off, 401k, Equity/Stock Options, Potential Bonuses, Profit Sharing
Required Skills
Leadership Skills
Team Building
Effective Communication
Problem Solving
Adaptability
Customer Service Orientation
Collaboration
Mentoring
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Gina’s Cucina Siciliana is a new upscale casual restaurant set to open in the Kentlands in Gaithersburg, MD at the end of 2026. Our restaurant brings the authentic flavors of Sicily to Maryland through the time honored recipes of Gina, our founder Dan Mollura’s mother. Gina passed away in 2014, and Dan started cooking her recipes to preserve her memory for his family. That's when we discovered that Gina's heart-warming dishes deserved to be shared with the world. She created a strong sense of love and family through her food culture, and we hope to honor her memory by creating the same feeling within our team and our community. More details are available at www.ginascooking.com
