Kitchen Manager

Overview

The Kitchen Manager leads daily back-of-house operations of our fastcasual café ensuring consistent food quality efficient execution and strong cost control from open to close. This role oversees our retail kitchen production supports the culinary team across shifts and upholds high standards for food safety cleanliness and consistency. The Kitchen Manager is responsible for training and developing the kitchen team managing prep and service flow monitoring food and labor costs and ensuring recipes are executed accurately. This is a hands-on leadership role essential to delivering great food and a smooth reliable café operation each day

Responsibilities

• Hire train schedule and coach BOH teams; uphold service and sanitation standards.
• Manage inventory ordering vendor relations and cost controls (COGS waste).
• Maintain preventive maintenance schedules and equipment readiness.
• Analyze sales labor and product mix; implement improvements and training.
• Ensure DOH compliance

Qualifications

• 2 years in restaurant/hotel leadership with team management responsibilities.
• Proficiency with scheduling inventory systems and cost controls.
• Demonstrated success in training and performance management.
• Working knowledge of DOH rules and sanitation practices
• Strong communication organization and collaboration skills
• Availability across nights weekends and holidays

What We Offer

• Career Growth: Opportunities for professional development and career advancement as our cafe continues to expand.
• Dynamic Work Environment: Work in a fun supportive and dynamic environment where we take our work seriously but have fun while we do it.
• Employee Benefits: 401k PTO Sick Time Health/Vision/Dental Insurance Food/Beverage Discounts and more.

About Us

We believe in more than just serving exceptional food and drinkwe believe in fostering a community where great people comfort and quality converge.

The Buttery is many things:

• a great local eatery
• the village bakery & patisserie
• an exceptional specialty coffee shop
• all wrapped in a unique retail environment

We are a communal gathering place that fosters care and warmth through great hospitality in our customers lives. But most importantly we are a collective of people coming together with a shared goal of building a healthy business through creating exceptional food and providing wonderful experiences.