Restaurant Chef

Restaurant Chef

The Thornhill Club is a year-round private club that offers golf, curling, fitness/wellness, tennis courts, and swimming pool/aquatics and activities. The Thornhill Club is much more than just one of Canada's best golf courses with a deep heritage, the Club has proven itself to have an innovative approach to cuisine, the environment and providing multiple facilities for family activities. The Club is conveniently located in the GTA on Yonge Street (near Hwy 407) in Thornhill, Ontario.

As a result of The Thornhill Club's commitment to providing its members with an excellent Club experience, we are hiring a Sous Chef that will support and help lead a farm to table approach as much as possible for the Members. As part of this vision, Thornhill has championed growing many fresh vegetables and herbs used in our eight dining facilities within the Club. Even our honey comes from hives on the property and maple trees produce syrup each spring. This individual will be a key and supporting role that will report directly to the Executive Chef.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate new cooking techniques and new equipment to cooking staff
• Supervise activities of specialist chefs, chefs, cooks and other kitchen workers
• Create new recipes
• Instruct cooks in preparation, cooking, garnishing and presentation of food
• Prepare and cook complete meals and specialty foods for events such as banquets
• Supervise cooks and other kitchen staff
• Prepare and cook meals or specialty foods
• Requisition food and kitchen supplies
• Train staff in preparation, cooking and handling of food
• Ensuring Exceptional Customer Service
• Provides and supports service behaviors that are above and beyond for customer satisfaction and retention.
• Improves service by communicating and assisting individuals to understand guest needs, providing guidance, feedback, and individual coaching when needed.
• Manages day-to-day operations, ensuring the quality, standards and meeting the expectations of the customers on a daily basis.
• Displays leadership in guest hospitality, exemplifies excellent customer service and creates a positive atmosphere for guest relations.
• Interacts with guests to obtain feedback on product quality and service levels.
• Responds to and handles guest problems and complaints.
• Empowers employees to provide excellent customer service. Establishes guidelines so employees understand expectations and parameters. Ensures employees receive on-going training to understand guest expectations.
• Reviews comment cards, guest satisfaction results and other data to identify areas of improvement.

Qualifications:

• Education: Other trades certificate or diploma
• Experience: 3-5 years management

This will be a short posting period of only two weeks, as we will move into interviews and a candidate selection in short order.

Please respond to this posting by e-mailing your resume directly to Stephan Na, Executive Chef ().

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $60,000.00-$65,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental care
• Discounted or free food
• Extended health care
• On-site parking
• Paid time off

Flexible Language Requirement:

• French not required

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Evening shift
• Holidays
• Morning shift
• Weekends as needed

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 2024-06-04