The Sous Chef administers the overall activities of the restaurant operation.
KEY JOB FUNCTIONS:
- Provides superior customer service, positively effects interactions with customers and team members, and has the resiliency to deal with difficult customers in all types of business conditions.
- Ensures full staff understanding of menu items and monitors food quality.
- Ensures all items are prepared from recipes as specified, maintain cost effectiveness and overall quality.
- Prepares and performs appropriate yield tests.
- Prepares requisitions for food ordering.
- Assists in the development of new menu items and daily specials
- Demonstrates proper care, storage, use and cleaning of all tools and equipment.
- Demonstrates competent product knowledge by correct storing and handling of all perishables, maintaining quality, security, value and integrity.
- Maintains adequate supply of menu items.
- Maintains assigned facility in a sanitary condition and equipment in operational condition.
- Inspects assigned areas and coordinates cleaning activities with the Kitchen Steward.
- Protects company assets against stealing, breakage and waste.
- Provides leadership and training to lower level cooks.
- Effectively communicates with other team members, including service and kitchen maintenance personnel.
- Continues to update cooking knowledge through books, magazines and discussions with the Executive Chef and Executive Sous Chef.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:
- 2 year Culinary Arts Degree from an accredited program required or completion of approved ACF apprentice program.
- Minimum of 2 years of cooking in a high quality/high volume establishment.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Ability to understand and respond to written order, recipes and directs in English
- Ability to work flexible time periods as required of a cook in a resort environment as well as be flexible enough to work in multiple outlets as needed
- Knowledge of breads, pastries, bakery production
- Ability to implement a la carte desserts
- Demonstrated expert skill level on all cook stations
- Demonstrated leadership skills with a focus on coaching for success; ability to mentor
- Ability to oversee the daily operations of the kitchen in the absence of a Chef
- Good communication skills
- Ability to uphold and demonstrate the highest level of integrity in all situations and recognize standards required by a regulated business
- Acts as a role model to other Team Members and always presents oneself as a credit to Caesars Entertainment and encourages others to do the same.
- Adheres to all regulatory, company and department policies and procedures
PHYSICAL, MENTAL and ENVIRONMENTAL DEMANDS:
- Ability to correctly lift and transport objects weighing up to 50 lbs.
- Ability to work a minimum of 8 hours with appropriate mobility and endurance
- Ability to stand for 8 hours
- Visual range must include immediate environment
- Auditory range must include near and medium distances.
- Dexterity to use food preparation machinery
- Ability to use repetitive hand motion, holding and grasping
- Ability to tolerate extreme temperatures
- Positions that have contact with the public require the ability to work in a noisy
environment, and may be exposed to guests who use tobacco products. - Non-public contact positions may be required to enter public areas from time to time, in connection with their duties, and may be subject to the same environment.
GAMING PERMIT: N/A
Caesars New Orleans Casino & Hotel earned recognition as a City Business “Best Places to Work” honoree and was named “#1 Large Employer” in the New Orleans area by the “Times-Picayune” Top Workplaces program. A destination property in the heart of the city, we are continually striving to attract the best talent to provide exceptional experiences for our guests.
Caesars New Orleans Casino is a Caesars Entertainment company. Our Team Members create the extraordinary. We are the largest casino-entertainment company in the U.S. and one of the world's most diversified casino-entertainment providers. Since beginning in Reno, Nevada, in 1937, Caesars Entertainment has grown through the development of new resorts, expansions and acquisitions. Our resorts operate primarily under the Caesars®, Harrah's®, Horseshoe® and Eldorado® brand names. We focus on building loyalty and value with our guests through a combination of impeccable service, operational excellence and technological leadership. The company is committed to its Team Members, suppliers, communities and the environment through its PEOPLE PLANET PLAY framework.
Our Caesars family is driven by our Mission, Vision and Values. We take great pride in living these values – Together We Win, All In On Service and Blaze the Trail – every day. Our mission, “Create the Extraordinary”. Our vision, “Create spectacular worlds. That immerse, inspire and connect you. We don’t perform magic; we create it with excellence. #WeAreCaesars”. If you are ready to create some magic, we invite you to explore our dynamic, yet unique, career opportunities.
