Chef Job at Two Hands, Franklin, TN

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  • Two Hands
  • Franklin, TN

Job Description

Two Hands Hospitality is hiring a Head Chef for our restaurant in the Factory, opening in fall 2024 and serving breakfast, lunch, brunch, and dinner.

Two Hands Hospitality is a group of community-focused Australian restaurants. Serving breakfast through dinner, we fuel your lifestyle with fresh, delicious food, cocktails, and coffee.

We are a fast-growing, innovative hospitality group with three restaurants in NYC, locations in Nashville, Austin, and Denver, and more on the horizon. The Two Hands approach to food is that it is good for you, good for the environment, simple, and tastes good. At Two Hands, our goal is for our ingredients to come from local farms to support our communities in Colorado, New York, Texas, and Tennessee.

The candidate will work alongside the group executive chef, GM, and CEO to manage and execute daily kitchen operations. The head chef’s goal will be to ensure that standards of quality and financial parameters are met so that customers enjoy a superior experience and business runs as required.

REQUIREMENTS

  • Management experience in restaurants similar to our concept or comparably fast-paced, high-volume, and innovative
  • Ability to work with and implement direction from core management team
  • Advanced knowledge of and willingness to work all stations in a professional kitchen, prep and line (larder, grill, fry, expo)
  • Understanding of and ability to manage financial requirements of a kitchen: COGS, portion control, recipe costing, invoice monitoring
  • Mature leadership, teamwork, and people management skills
  • Valid Tennessee food handlers card
  • Punctuality
  • Excellent knife skills
  • Ability and willingness to lead, have fun, and work well with a team
  • A love for food and willingness to try new foods

PRINCIPAL DUTIES

  • Create and follow detailed recipes, prep schedules, and systems
  • In conjunction with the executive chef, plan, create, and execute menus for each restaurant location according to seasonality, trends, and brand
  • Plan, create, and execute menus for on- and offsite catering events
  • Manage training and performance, following and executing training protocols and systems
  • Maintain a high level of cleanliness and organization which exceeds DOH standards at all times (labeling, rotation of stock, cleaning self-managed workstations, adherence to recycling and environmental protocols and cleaning schedules and processes)
  • Identify and repair minor kitchen maintenance issues; report and seek repair of equipment from manufacturer, service reps, or technicians

BENEFITS AND COMPENSATION

  • Minimum starting salary of $80k (negotiable depending on experience)
  • $5,000 annual bonus, paid out biannually, dependent upon performance reviews
  • Paid vacation time
  • Sick leave
  • Health insurance available after 3 months
  • A 50% employee discount for you and up to four guests on food and drinks when dining outside of work hours
  • Positive, collaborative work environment
  • Opportunity to grow and assist in the growth of Two Hands nationally
  • Interstate management opportunities
  • Moving stipend*

Please include a cover letter, resume showing employment for at least the past seven years, and three contactable professional references from within the past two years or previous two management positions.

*If moving is required, Two Hands will reimburse the cost of the move up to an agreed-upon amount.

Two Hands celebrates unity and diversity. We welcome all religions, all races, all sexualities, and all genders, and we embrace equality. Black, indigenous, and people of color, bilingual people, and women are encouraged to apply. We seek professionalism, kindness, compassion, and respect of others and the environment.

Job Tags

Full time, Local area,

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