Chef De Cuisine

Fairmont El San Juan Hotel, where lively vibes and peaceful ocean views meet. Located minutes from Old San Juan, on the award-winning Isla Verde Beach in Puerto Rico. The resort features four pools, villa rooms, live entertainment, a Well & Being Spa and Fitness Center, paddleboards, luxury cabanas, signature dining at Caña, El San Juan Beach Club, Meat Market and Chandelier Bar featuring a 7,000 Crystal Chandelier.

Fairmont El San Juan Chef de Cuisine oversee kitchen operations in commercial and private kitchens. This role balances excellent cooking skills with managerial decision-making and team leadership, making it a great role for an experienced and accomplished kitchen professional. A chef de Cuisine may make key decisions about menu items, ingredients, and even personnel within a restaurant’s kitchen.Chefs de cuisine are frequently the highest-ranking chefs within a kitchen, and as a result play an important role in menu development, food preparation and presentation, and kitchen operations. This fast-paced role requires the chef de cuisine to constantly balance providing a high level of customer satisfaction with keeping the kitchen moving efficiently.

EDUCATION & SKILLS

• Chefs de cuisine are experienced cooks or sous chefs, and most kitchens look for individuals with at least six or seven years of food preparation experience for this role. While there are no formal education requirements, chefs de cuisine can increase their job prospects by attending culinary school and achieving certification as executive chefs through the American Culinary Federation.

QUALIFICATION STANDARDS

Chefs de cuisine are kitchen leaders who balance extensive food preparation experience with leadership and management roles. Restaurants tend to hire chefs de cuisine with several years of kitchen experience and the following skills:

• Food Preparation Skills – Chefs de cuisine are kitchen experts who successfully prepare a wide variety of meals and dishes on time and with a high level of quality and presentation
• Menu Development – Because they often help develop a restaurant’s menu, chefs de cuisine have experience with creating new dishes and changing items based on ingredient availability and quality
• Team Leadership – Chefs de cuisine coordinate the activities of both kitchen and restaurant staff, so they are effective leaders who delegate tasks and oversee many employees
• Budgeting Skills – While making decisions regarding ingredient sourcing and purchasing, chefs de cuisine need to employ significant budgeting and financial management skills to ensure profitability

Communication Skills – This role also requires excellent written and verbal communication to work with customers and kitchen staff as well as.

EXPERIENCE

• Food and Beverage experience in related field preferred
• Hospitality experience preferred

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