Assistant Pastry Chef Position

Roles: Leadership, Mentorship, Supervision, Consistency, Quality & Training

Job Description: This role is to assist our leadership team in developing all roles of all our team members. Assisting the Commissary, General Managers, Assistant General Managers, Kitchen Managers, as well as both Front of House and Back of House Supervisors to develop systems, training, and consistency to help lift our quality, brand, and guest expectations. To showcase the highest standards in quality, taste, and presentation to the guests we serve.

This position is required to assist all operations, ensuring maximum guest satisfaction, through training, organizing, managing, and position advancement.

This individual should exemplify leadership skills and be able to communicate, coach and motivate the team leaders.

This individual must have a knack for problem solving, be diligent with follow-through and most importantly be committed to ensuring the highest quality standards are upheld at all locations.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Assist with all kitchen operations of each restaurant and establish consistency, training, development, and food quality through our restaurant brand.
• Monitor financial aspects: Cost Control/Food cost/ Labor/ Inventory Streamlining and analyze financials and sales for all Common Bond Bistros & OTG’s
• Ensures that food stock levels within the culinary department areas are of sufficient quantity and quality in relevance to the Common Bond standards, including all Breads, Pasties, Cookies, Cakes, Entremets, Macarons & all Savory offerings
• Assist leadership to ensure that team members are always in clean, tidy uniforms and are always presentable to be in guest view.
• Assist leadership to ensure that all food preparation equipment is used safely and correctly, and that it is cleaned and maintained.
• Assist leadership to ensure that all culinary operations manuals are prepared and updated.
• Assist leadership to ensure that the department’s overall operational budgets are strictly adhered to, controls food costs and COGs.
• Assist leadership to ensure that meetings are well planned, and results orientated.
• Work with bistros & OTGs with catering to ensure that all relevant orders are prepared timely and in adherence to company standards.
• Works with the Executive Corporate Chef & Commissary leaders to ensure that only the highest quality products are used in food preparation.
• Ensures that the overall culinary department is motivated and that positive feedback on work performance is given.
• Identifies strengths and weaknesses and provide timely feedback to leadership.
• Menu training development, launching, and training alongside Executive Chef for new menu items and menu changes.
• Training, hiring, mentoring and development of all Kitchen Managers.
• Maintain recipe compliance to improve food quality, service standards, waste control, and consistency throughout all our locations.
• Ensures all company standards for food, service, vendors and state and local regulations are followed.
• Implement all our guidelines of budget control, food costs, food presentation, and standards throughout all locations.
• Assist with product development and recipe testing.
• Be a liaison to all chefs, work on team building, and management.
• Project a positive and motivated attitude among team members.
• Resolve escalating issues, and help retain and develop stores and employees
• Provide ongoing support to the Executive Chef, Commissary Leaders, CDC’s, Supervisors, and Managers
• Traveling between restaurants and offering support for culinary training, standards, operating systems, managing.
• Works within the discussed schedule between all locations.
• Assist with any new openings and implemented programs.

Qualifications

• Maintain uphold the standard of a professional restaurant image, including kitchen cleanliness, proper uniforms, and appearance standards.
• A Food Manager's Certification as required by local and state health code regulations.
• Able to read, write, and speak fluent Spanish and English.
• Must be able to work an 10-hour shift standing up.
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs.
• Professional experience as a Pastry Chef, Baker, or other relevant experience.
• Professional experience managing a team or kitchen.

The roles of the position will change and evolve with the development and success of each leadership and restaurant.

In every city, village, and town the “common bond” that everyone shares is the love of good food. It bridges together all ages, cultures, and beliefs. From this idea, Common Bond Bistro & Bakery was opened in May 2014 in the Montrose area of Houston, TX. We now have 11 locations across the city of Houston where the community gathers to dine and bond over good food, extraordinary pastries, and custom cakes.

Pay: Starting at $25.00 / hour

Benefits:

• Paid time off
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Employee discount
• Paid training

Job Type: fulltime

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• Weekend availability
• Monday to Friday
• Holidays

Education: No education required

Work location: On-site