Taste Buds Kitchen | Bellevue, WA
Compensation: $25–$30/hour, depending on experience
Schedule: Part-time to start (20-25 hours/week), with potential for full-time growth
Taste Buds Kitchen Bellevue is looking for a dynamic, hands-on leader to help manage our growing culinary studio.
We offer cooking classes, birthday parties, school break camps, corporate team-building events, and private celebrations. We're seeking someone who combines strong kitchen operations experience with outstanding hospitality skills and a business-minded approach.
What You'll Do
- Run a safe, organized kitchen: Oversee food safety, sanitation, inventory, purchasing, equipment maintenance, and health inspection readiness.
- Manage purchasing and costs: Plan grocery shopping, track ingredient usage, minimize waste, manage vendors, and maintain food budgets.
- Lead and develop our team: Train culinary assistants and hosts, coordinate schedules, provide feedback, and ensure consistent performance.
- Deliver exceptional guest experiences: Welcome guests, oversee classes and events, resolve concerns, and create a warm, fun atmosphere.
- Keep events running smoothly: Coordinate preparation, staffing, setup, and cleanup so events run efficiently and on schedule.
- Think like a business owner: Monitor labor costs, improve processes, identify sales opportunities, and help grow a profitable business.
- Jump in wherever needed: Assist with culinary preparation, support classes, host events when trained, and help the team succeed.
Who You Are
- Have at least 2–3 years of food service, catering, hospitality, or kitchen operations experience, including leadership responsibilities.
- Understand food safety, sanitation standards, and commercial kitchen operations.
- Have experience managing inventory, purchasing, and food costs.
- Are exceptionally friendly, outgoing, organized, and dependable.
- Enjoy training and motivating others.
- Have strong business judgment and take initiative without needing constant direction.
- Are comfortable working with both children and adults.
- Can work evenings and weekends.
- Have a current food worker card and preferably a Certified Food Protection Manager credential, or are willing to obtain required credentials.
Why Join Us?
We're a new, growing business with an opportunity to help shape how our kitchen operates. This position offers meaningful responsibility, a collaborative environment, and the potential to grow into a full-time General Manager role.