Head Chef

• Head Chef
• The
• Head Chef
• at
• Elephant Grounds

is responsible for leading the kitchen team, ensuring high-quality food preparation, and maintaining consistency across all dishes. This role requires creativity, strong leadership, and a passion for delivering exceptional culinary experiences in a fast-paced café/restaurant environment.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for overall food production, kitchen operations management
• Ensure all dishes meet
• Elephant Grounds’
• quality standards and presentation guidelines.
• Maintain, monitor and improve quality performances to comply with the prescribed food quality
• Be fully in charge of hiring, managing and training kitchen staffs
• Supervise and train up production team members to achieve good performance standard
• Carry out cost control planning such as food and ingredients, and ordering & inventory management
• Maintain compliance with health, safety, and sanitation regulations (HACCP, food handling, etc.).
• Inspect kitchen supplies, equipment and work areas to ensure conformance to establish standards
• Skills and qualifications

Experience

• Minimum
• 5+ years
• in a professional kitchen, with at least
• 2 years in a leadership role
• (Head Chef, Sous Chef, or Kitchen Manager).

Culinary Expertise

• Strong background in
• café, brunch, or modern casual dining
• —knowledge of coffee-pairing dishes is a plus.

Leadership

Proven ability to lead and motivate a team in a high-volume setting.

Creativity

Passion for developing new recipes and improving existing ones.

Organization

Excellent time management and multitasking skills.

Certifications

• Food Safety Certification (required).
• Able to communicate effectively in English, both spoken and written.