Department: Pearl's
Location: Orlando, FL
Department: Food Service

Reporting Relationship: Director of Food, Beverage, & Catering

Status: Full Time/Exempt/Salary

Salary: Depends Upon Experience, and Commissions. Insurance benefits, PTO's, Vacation and 401K with Company Match

Summary of Duties: Responsible for assisting with overall operations of the Food Service Department, including, but not limited to, achieving budgeted goals, managing day to day food service operations, assisting with staffing, consulting on menu selections and pricing, conducting monthly inventories. Reviews food and drink preparation, maintains standards and is always looking to improve food delivery processes. Oversees the execution of catering events at the park, anticipates food consumption (while estimating cost), and minimizing waste through forecasting. Manages staff, coaches associates, and fulfills their training needs.

Primary Duties:

Assists in managing employees via training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees (when necessary); communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions; enforcing policies and procedures.

Achieves operational objectives by contributing information and analysis to food production, staff productivity, quality, customer-service, safety, security, and health standards; identifying and resolving problems; completing audits; identifying, developing, and implementing system improvements.
Meets financial objectives by promoting upselling, analyzing variances; and initiating corrective actions when needed.
Evaluates menu options and anticipates food consumption while minimizing waste, places orders with suppliers, schedules delivery of fresh food and beverages and oversees the receipt and content of deliveries, evaluates the quality of meats, poultry, fruits, vegetables, and baked goods.
Controls costs by reviewing portion control and quantities of preparation; minimizing waste; ensuring high quality of preparation.
Avoids legal challenges by conforming to the regulations of alcoholic beverage commission, sales, and distribution to customers.
Maintains safe, secure, and healthy restaurant environment by establishing, following, and enforcing sanitation standards and procedures, complying with legal regulations and regulatory safety standards.
And all other duties as required.

Education, Experience, Specialized Skills, and Knowledge Requirements:

Minimum work experience includes 4 years or more of experience in the food & beverage segment of theme park or hospitality related industries, with at least two years in a management/leadership capacity. Must have experience in food management, including cost of sales and inventory management. Experience with Point-of-Sale systems, Self-motivated with excellent communication, organizational, and working knowledge of computers. Must possess the ability to produce clear and concise verbal and written reports. Understanding of team environment and the ability to perform multiple tasks simultaneously. Must be able to stand on feet for long periods of time, and be able to communicate well with others. This position will require that the assistant manager works weekends and holidays (our busiest times.) Days off will be granted dependent on the forecasted park occupancies and most likely will not be consistent week to week. Being in the Theme Park business, Weekends and Holidays are peak times, and unlikely to be granted as time off.

This job description in no way implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee. The jobholder will be required to follow other instructions and to perform other duties as required.

EOE

To apply: Complete an application at https://www.gatorland.com/employment/ . Reference this CFEC Job Board posting when applying.