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Hopkins and Company is on the search for a talented an experienced culinary professional who shares our passion for food: where it’s from, how to cook it and how to best serve it!

Summary of Position
The Chef de Cuisine is responsible for maintaining a thriving and profitable organization of well-trained passionate people celebrating hospitality and creativity. They are a true hospitalitarian, supporting excellence in every facet of the guest experience. They are a smart-creative, a keen strategizer, and visionary. They create and maintain a balanced, engaging, competitive and nationally recognized business that sets standards in the food, beverage, and hospitality programs. They oversee and coordinate the operations of the business and plans, organizes, trains, and leads to achieve stated objectives in sales, costs, employee retention, guest satisfaction, product quality, cleanliness, and sanitation.

Responsibilities will include:

• Maintaining the consistency and deliciousness of all menu items and supporting excellence in service at all times
• Managing kitchen personnel and supervising/coordinating all related culinary activities
• Estimating food consumption and requisition and purchasing food
• Selecting and developing recipes
• Standardizes production recipes to ensure consistent quality
• Establishes presentation techniques and quality standards
• Plans and prices menus
• Ensures proper equipment operation/maintenance
• Upholds proper safety and sanitation in the kitchen
• Directly supervises kitchen personnel with responsibility for hiring, discipline, performance reviews and initiating pay increases

Education/Experience

• 5+ years’ experience in a Culinary Leadership position
• Degree from accredited culinary school preferred
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Outlook 365 and Excel
• Full understanding of culinary techniques
• Excellent knife skills
• Great organizational skills
• Ability to manage and supervise their culinary team
• Ability to train and teach
• English/Spanish Bilingual preferred
• Appreciation of our current context in the scope of culinary history

What C. Ellet's Provides You
The individual and the important work they provide for C. Ellet’s guests is greatly valued to us. We want to offer our employees the best benefits experience so they know how important their determination is to our company.

We Offer:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Short-Term Disability options
• Competitive salary with performance-based raises and promotions
• Incentive earning potential
• Paid time off
• Ongoing training and education opportunities
• Employee discount
• Employee referral program

About Hopkins & Company:
At Hopkins and Company our vision is to create an environment that inspires our team to be their best, have a hunger to learn, support local farmers and artisans while having a kind heart. We love our community, our city and especially our employees. We believe success is a collaboration among everyone that works for Hopkins and Company– our mindset is team focused. We foster an environment that nurtures, cultivates and encourages individual success. We encourage everyone to openly share suggestions, ideas, information and knowledge. If we hire you, it's because we want to invest in you, your personal growth and your future.

We are a family-run hospitality group in Atlanta, Georgia founded in 2002 by husband and wife duo Chef Linton and Gina Hopkins. Hopkins and Company owns and operates Holeman & Finch Public House, Holeman & Finch Bottle Shop, Eugene Kitchen, H&F Burger, Hop's Chicken, and C. Ellet’s Steakhouse, Holeman & Finch Asheville, and The Buttery ATL.