Sous Chef/ Kitchen Manager {SAMA} Food For Balance
- Date Posted August 13, 2018
- Location Atlanta, GA
- Category Culinary
- Job type Full-Time
{SAMA} Food For Balance is a health and wellness cafe concept in Buckhead. Healthy bowls with an Ayurvedic twist are the mainstay of the hot bar. Creating delicious and interesting vegan and vegetarian-friendly foods while also including our paleo, gluten-free, and pescatarian friends is a challenge we enjoy. {SAMA}, meaning "balance" in Sanskrit, seeks to help its customers find balance in body, mind and soul with a meditation studio included. Recently voted Best Vegetarian Restaurant by Atlanta for Jezebel Magazine.
Ayurveda principles teach us that food should be a multi-sensory and fully satisfying experience that engages our sight, smell and taste through various textures, colors and spices. It just happens to incorporate some of the most nourishing foods on the planet, combined in a way that promotes balance and healing in the body.
Atlanta's first Ayurveda-inspired, fast-casual restaurant, {SAMA} serves seasonal Balance Bowls that include options from a variety of local, organic vegetables, grains, superfoods, and proteins, cold-pressed juices and soon cocktails, a multitude of smoothie bowls, an espresso bar featuring a selection of organic coffee products, as well as a 500-square-foot meditation studio and a retail shop "featuring consciously curated products that promote balance in the home and body" all located in Buckhead’s new Andrews Square.
The Kitchen Manager in training will work closely with the current Kitchen Manager to learn all of the cooking procedures, recipes, ordering, catering, composting, and overall culture at {SAMA}. The Kitchen Manager IT will be groomed to take over the second location's cooking and managing duties in early 2019. The Kitchen Manager will be responsible for the overall success of the cafe's food and catering program. The Kitchen Manager will oversee food preparation, planning, and quality; kitchen organization and upkeep according to health department standards; and employee morale, hiring, and scheduling.
QUALIFICATIONS
- High School Diploma or GED
- Culinary degree preferred but not required with proven work history
- 4+ years experience as a line cook and prep cook
- Experience managing a kitchen and team a plus
- Strong organizational and managerial skills
- Plant-based, dairy free, gluten free, vegan experience a plus +
- Ability to work independently and with minimal guidance
- Open Availability a must from 7 to 3; 7 days a week
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Firm knowledge of safety and food handling guidelines and procedures
- Knowledge of state and federal health and sanitation laws
- Ability to lift 25lbs on occasion,
- Ability to stand and walk for extended periods of time