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Job: Restaurant Sous Chef

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We’re Pacific Coast Hospitality…we recruit the best, most qualified leadership talent for top hospitality organizations across the western U.S. and British Columbia.

photo: Seattle, WA — Pacific Coast Hospitality hospitality recruitmentMarket Seattle, WA

Job Description 

Not just a restaurant but a Seattle institution, established in 1981…this perennial-favorite is known for its true Italian cuisine as well as its unique entertainment at dinnertime that complements the romantic ambiance. During summer months, diners crowd the rooftop patio with views looking over Elliott Bay.

We are searching for a talented Restaurant Sous Chef to join this Italian-inspired restaurant tucked into a quintessentially Northwest location. Deep knowledge of Italian cuisine, passion for fresh, locally sourced products and an ability to produce exceptional quality in a high volume, close quarters kitchen are absolute musts for this position.

Requirements Ideal candidate must have the following:

  • 2 – 3 years of Sous Chef experience in in a high volume environment
  • Thorough knowledge of and a palette that is knowledgeable and intimately involved with the Italian cuisine
  • Butchering skills
  • A true passion for fresh, local, sustainable menu selections
  • Ability to coordinate seasonal menu changes with staff and owner
  • Ability to actively teach & motivate staff to excel in high-volume, close quarters environment
  • Creative, ambitious with ability to leave ego at the door
  • Strong communication skills.

Salary Range & Benefits

  • $45,000 – $55,000/yr. based on experience
  • Annual bonus program earned on profitability
  • Benefits package including medical and dental
  • 401k program
  • Annual Performance / Salary Review
  • Paid Vacation benefits
  • Paid Parking

Job Category Restaurant Sous Chef

Job Type Full Time

If this position seems like you – please click on this link to submit your resume and cover letter. https://www.pacificcoasthospitality.com/careers-in-hospitality/  We will contact you via telephone or email for an initial interview.

Job: Restaurant General Manager

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We’re Pacific Coast Hospitality…we recruit the best, most qualified leadership talent for top hospitality organizations across the western U.S. and British Columbia.

photo: San Francisco —Pacific Coast Hospitality. Restaurant Recruitment for San Francisco, CAMarket San Francisco, CA

Job Description 

Restaurant General Manager candidates needed to fuel tremendous growth in next 3 years! Founded in 2004 by two friends, this rapidly expanding San Francisco based company offers authentic Chicago- and Italian-style pizza, featuring two distinct, handcrafted styles of dough, four types of mozzarella and over 30 different fresh meat and veggie toppings (ingredients sourced locally whenever possible). Their Executive Chef boasts “We happily renounce stovetops, deep fryers and freezers. Instead we prepare all of our dishes using fresh ingredients, sourced locally when possible.”

This privately owned and operated company currently has a total of 12 locations between the San Francisco Bay Area and Denver, CO. (with 17 new units scheduled to open in the next 3 years!) and was ranked #6 in the Food & Beverage Industry by Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 Hire Power Companies of 2013 and named among the Top 10 “Most Life-Changing Pizzas” of 2012 by Esquire Magazine.

Requirements Ideal candidate will have the following:

  • Minimum of 3 years of food service supervision experience.
  • Proficient in the following dimensions of restaurant functions: food planning and preparation, purchasing, sanitation, security, company policies and procedures, personnel management, recordkeeping, and preparation of reports.
  • Excellent communication and organizational skills.
  • Ability to drive initiatives and incentives for employees.
  • Demonstrated ability to drive growth while continuously improving guest satisfaction.
  • Strong leadership skills with proven ability to build relationships with guests, vendors, and associates.
  • Proven track record in maintaining strong cost controls, and quality standards.

Salary Range & Benefits

  • $60,000 – $70,000/yr. based on experience
  • Very generous & obtainable bonus program (both quarterly & annual bonus)
  • Benefits package including medical, dental and life insurance
  • Annual Performance / Salary Review
  • Generous PTO benefits (closed Thanksgiving and Christmas)

Job Category Restaurant General Manager

Job Type Full Time

If this position seems like you – please click on this link to submit your resume and cover letter. https://www.pacificcoasthospitality.com/careers-in-hospitality/  We will contact you via telephone or email for an initial interview.

Job: Restaurant General Manager

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We’re Pacific Coast Hospitality…we recruit the best, most qualified leadership talent for top hospitality organizations across the western U.S. and British Columbia.

photo: San Francisco —Pacific Coast Hospitality. Restaurant Recruitment for San Francisco, CAMarket San Francisco, CA

Job Description 

Restaurant General Manager candidates needed to fuel tremendous growth in next 3 years! Founded in 2004 by two friends, this rapidly expanding San Francisco based company offers authentic Chicago- and Italian-style pizza, featuring two distinct, handcrafted styles of dough, four types of mozzarella and over 30 different fresh meat and veggie toppings (ingredients sourced locally whenever possible). – more… Their Executive Chef boasts “We happily renounce stovetops, deep fryers and freezers. Instead we prepare all of our dishes using fresh ingredients, sourced locally when possible.”

This privately owned and operated company currently has a total of 12 locations between the San Francisco Bay Area and Denver, CO. (with 17 new units scheduled to open in the next 3 years!) and was ranked #6 in the Food & Beverage Industry by Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 Hire Power Companies of 2013 and named among the Top 10 “Most Life-Changing Pizzas” of 2012 by Esquire Magazine.

Requirements Ideal candidate will have the following:

  • Minimum of 3 years of food service supervision experience.
  • Proficient in the following dimensions of restaurant functions: food planning and preparation, purchasing, sanitation, security, company policies and procedures, personnel management, recordkeeping, and preparation of reports.
  • Excellent communication and organizational skills.
  • Ability to drive initiatives and incentives for employees.
  • Demonstrated ability to drive growth while continuously improving guest satisfaction.
  • Strong leadership skills with proven ability to build relationships with guests, vendors, and associates.
  • Proven track record in maintaining strong cost controls, and quality standards.

Salary Range & Benefits

  • $60,000 – $70,000/yr. based on experience
  • Very generous & obtainable bonus program (both quarterly & annual bonus)
  • Benefits package including medical, dental and life insurance
  • Annual Performance / Salary Review
  • Generous PTO benefits (closed Thanksgiving and Christmas)

Job Category Restaurant General Manager

Job Type Full Time

If this position seems like you – please click on this link to submit your resume and cover letter. https://www.pacificcoasthospitality.com/careers-in-hospitality/  We will contact you via telephone or email for an initial interview.

5 Ideas: Where to Find Top Employees

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You want to hire the best? So does everyone else. It’s not an easy thing to do and continually companies make hiring mistakes or struggle to find quality candidates. Hiring has its difficulties especially if your goal is to hire supreme restaurant managers and all you have is an hourly server budget to offer candidates.

So what can you do? Find the unpredictable talent.

Go against the grain and interview the candidates with resumes which are less than subpar. Find great talent not with the specific skills you need, but in character and work ethic – skills can be taught to complete task and drive your business forward.

Toss out the standard social stereotypes and find your next top hire.

 

Hire Military

You won’t regret an ex-military hire. The tried and true – trained up leaders are a hire which can adapt and will work hard. Whether you’re planning to hire a leader or were looking for a simple server, the military is one organization that places extreme emphasis on leader training and development.

An ex-military hire knows how to get it done – whatever it might be. They’ll be the ones to see the task through and make smart decisions whether involving only themselves or an entire team. Hire a veteran – you won’t regret the commitment to hard work they will bring.

 

Hire Recent Grads

You too were once the worker who didn’t have any experience and someone offered you that first job. Someone offered the chance and it was full on hard work to show that first employer you were a good gamble. New hires and recent grads are the young just entering the work force with eager hands and bright minds – you’ll gain high energy and enthusiasm by taking the risk on hiring the inexperienced.

 

Hire Post – Athletes

Similar to the recent grad, hiring a post college athlete might be your next best move. Every year approximately 400,000 student-athletes graduate from college and enter the job market. Athletes have worked within scholarship regulations and met national standards to compete in games. You’ll find these hires are self-disciplined, motivated, able to overcome defeat quickly and their heart beats to the rhythms of teamwork… who wouldn’t want to hire that type of character?

 

Hire layman Job Resume

You’ve seen the resumes and it’s fast food and warehouse job history – instantly you’re ready to put a pass on it…. But maybe not so quickly.

What are the skills you are really looking to hire? Good customer service? Attention to finite details? Teamwork savvy? The cashier at a worldwide fast food chain has been trained to display consistent customer service and the layman or warehouse worker has repeated the same processes over and over accumulating the ability to identify detail.

Don’t put a pass so quick on the unimpressive resumes from candidates.

Am I a Good Manager – Questions to Ask Yourself

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So you’ve been a manager for a while, maybe weeks maybe decades. Whatever the timeframe, we can all use a little gut check to get back in line with what it takes to be a top hospitality industry manager. We’ve outlined a few interview questions we’ve recycled here for you to do a little asking of yourself.

 

 

-What’s your biggest achievement as a restaurant manager been?

-What big things were you trying to achieve this past year?

-What were your staffing goals for this past year? How’s they turn out?

-What’s an example of a goal you didn’t meet? How come? How did you respond to that?

-What will success look like for your restaurant this year?

-How can you ensure that success to happen?

-What are the biggest obstacles your team will face this year?

-How has your management philosophy evolved as you’ve gained more management experience?

-What does the balance between not micromanaging but still being involved enough to be able to catch problems early on look like?

-When was the last time you fired someone? How many people in the past two years have your fired? Why?

-The best manager generate complaints from employees – so what complaints have you received and how can you change those to positives?

5 Great Questions to Ask During Restaurant Interviews:

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We love interviewing. It’s part of who we are and what we do. We recruit the best, most qualified leadership talent for top hospitality organizations across the western U.S. and British Columbia and get to know them in an interview. We know that interviews can be dry and boring, never really telling the characteristics and commitment of each candidate – so we ask the good questions. Questions that will enable you to choose and hire the best for your staff.

Asking revealing questions during each interview reduces the risk of making a bad hire.  Apart from traditional interview questions reviewing previous employment rolls, etc. there is more to each candidate that matters and should be discussed in an interview.

 

  1. Describe a stressful evening at the restaurant of your previous employment and how you handled it.  Asking for previous examples shows their true colors- what happens when they are in leadership and how do they respond to stress.  Without a doubt, stress will come from a variety of situations and you want to hire someone who can manage the stress well.
  2. What issues to you disagree most often with your current (or most previous) boss? It’s a good idea to understand how each candidate responds to authority.
  3. What ideas and ways are you committed to ensuring your restaurant staff is motivated and working their hardest each shift? A restaurant manager has to be able to “drive the car when it’s low on gas”…. What can be done to make it a great evening of serving, even when no one wants to be there?
  4. Explain a situation in which last minute changes happened, and how did you respond? It’s essential to have a restaurant manager that can wear many hats and has a variety of talents. Changes will come- problem solving is essential for moments like this.
  5. What drove you to apply for this positions? Is he/ she looking for more money? A different location? Small/ larger business? Whatever is the reason for the application is, ensuring it’s a good one will help to decipher if this candidates is looking to commit and make a difference in their employment, verses living a lifestyle the is come and go at the best offer possible.
GET IN TOUCH WITH PACIFIC COAST HOSPITALITY FOR YOUR IMMEDIATE STAFFING NEEDS:
write to us: askus@pacificcoasthospitality.com
give us a call: 503-720-5174