Elevate Your Career at Eurest with Delta One's Premium Lounge at LAX!
Ready to soar to new professional heights? Eurest invites you to be a part of the exclusive Delta One Lounge at LAX, offering an unparalleled opportunity for culinary excellence and leadership.
As the Exec Sous Chef, you will collaborate closely with the Executive Chef to maintain our premier lounge, delivering top-tier culinary experiences while managing the budget and exceeding client expectations. Your role will be integral to ensuring safety, sanitation, and maintenance programs, fostering excellent relationships with employees, guests, and clients, and promoting professional growth within your team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the Delta One food and beverage daily operations, ensuring an exceptional guest experience and unparalleled food & beverage offerings
- Mentor and develop a passionate, dedicated, and diligent team
- Ensure compliance with Compass-established policies and procedures
- Maintain food cost while ensuring quality standards are consistently met (in an a la carte dining environment)
- Assists Executive Chef to assure compliance with all sanitation, safety, food safety, production, and quality.
- Motivates, trains, develops, and directs the back-of-house employees to accomplish the objectives of the operation to the satisfaction of the guests and the clients
- Ensures high-quality food items are prepared to Delta One standards
- Assists in all phases of planning, ordering, inventory, and food preparation
- Supports the management of cost controls and controls expenditures for the account
- Rolls out new culinary programs in conjunction with the culinary teams
- Establishes and maintains exceptional, impactful rapport with staff, clients, guests, and other departments
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5 years or more of relevant culinary experience - fine dining culinary experience a MUST
- Mastery of a wide variety of kitchen positions and stations
- Ability to think on their feet, as well as create, produce, and serve on the fly
- Knowledge of food cost and how it pertains to a kitchen, product, and quality identification
- Excellent interpersonal, customer service, and oral/written communication skills
- Applied food service sanitation certification, ServSafe and/or HACCP federal guideline certification
- Must be knowledgeable on HACCP controls along with proper storage and use of food
Apply to Eurest today!
Eurest is a member of Compass Group USA
Associates at Eurest are offered many fantastic benefits.
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Life Insurance/ AD
- Disability Insurance
- Retirement Plan
- Paid Time Off
- Holiday Time Off (varies by site/state)
- Associate Shopping Program
- Health and Wellness Programs
- Discount Marketplace
- Identity Theft Protection
- Pet Insurance
- Commuter Benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
- Paid Parental Leave
- Personal Leave
Compass Group is an equal opportunity employer. At Compass, we are committed to treating all Applicants and Associates fairly based on their abilities, achievements, and experience without regard to race, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other classification protected by law.
Qualified candidates must be able to perform the essential functions of this position satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation.
Eurest maintains a drug-free workplace.
Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.