Company description

City Beet Kitchens is part of Project Renewal, a nonprofit whose mission is to end the cycle of homelessness by empowering individuals and families to renew their lives with health, homes, and jobs. Project Renewal serves approximately 15,000 homeless New Yorkers every year.

City Beet Kitchens was established within Project Renewal in 1995 as “Comfort Foods” and rebranded in 2015 as “City Beet Kitchens”. We cater to all organizations for all events—from galas to homeless shelters, plated sit-down meals to boxed lunches. Over 90% of our employees come from our Culinary Arts Training Program.

Job description

Title: Executive Chef – City Beet Kitchens

Program: City Beet Kitchens Events (Geffner House)

Salary: $90,000

Program Description:

City Beet Kitchens is a mission-based catering company. We were established in 1995 as “Comfort Foods” and rebranded in 2015 to “City Beet Kitchens.” We cater to large clients in the non-profit space (institutional division) as well as corporate and private events (events division), providing meals, snacks, boxed lunches and curated, event specific food services.

This position is for the events side of the business working as a Chef to overlook the preparation of meals for all our customers. The position hours are 6am to 3pm.

Overall Responsibilities:

The Chef is responsible for overseeing the proper preparation of food for our private customers as well as a few institutional clients.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Prepare meals using kettle cooking in a high-volume commercial kitchen.
Ability to read and employ math skills to work with a budget.
Familiarity with and the ability to utilize kitchen cooking equipment’s such as kettle, ovens, and stove top to prepare meals.
Must have a food centric approach, passion for food flavors and its visual appearance.
Ability to learn and to understand CBK's mission of feeding our clientele and genuinely caring about the food we prepare for our clients and outside customers.

Qualifications:

A minimum of 5 years of high volume cooking experience
High volume restaurant or catering experience
Thorough understanding of NYC Food Standards

Effective September 13, 2021, all newly hired Project Renewal staff must: 1) provide one-time status verification of being fully vaccinated against Covid-19 OR 2) provide verification of first does of a two-dose series of Covid-19 vaccination.

Compensation

this position is: salaried, $75,000 - $100,000

Application instructions

Deadline

no deadline