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Job Description EXECUTIVE CHEF - DESTINATION KP Sports Facilities Management, LLC LOCATION: Kings Park, NY DEPARTMENT: FOOD & BEVERAGE REPORTS TO: GENERAL MANAGER STATUS: FULL-TIME (EXEMPT) ABOUT THE COMPANY: Destination KP is a premier sport, recreation and entertainment destination focused on improving the health and economic vitality of Kings Park, NY. You will be joining a championship level team focused on fun, fulfillment and service built to enrich the community as well as your career and personal growth. Destination KP is a managed facility by Sports Facilities Management, LLC, a Sports Facilities Companies (SFC) company. SFC is the nation's leading resource for managing and developing sports, recreation, wellness, and events facilities. We provide a highly collaborative and supportive culture that raises our team members to new levels of career growth. Together, we will carve a path in a hyper-growing industry where you will enjoy the journey and learn from the industry's best while having some fun. SFC was awarded national recognition as a Top Workplace and is considered a workplace of choice. Our mission-focused company is highly entrepreneurial, team-oriented with a culture centered on collaboration, accountability, excellence, and service. We are growing rapidly and looking for high performers at every level to grow with us. POSITION SUMMARY: The Executive Chef is the senior culinary leader responsible for all back-of-house food operations across the recreation center's multi-outlet footprint-anchored by a high-end, full-service restaurant-along with quick-service/concessions, grab-and-go, café, catering, and special events. This role sets the culinary vision, builds and develops a high-performance kitchen team, ensures a consistently exceptional guest experience, and delivers business results through menu engineering, cost controls, food safety, and cross-functional partnership with Front-of-House, Events, and Venue Operations. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: • Lead menu development, tasting and iteration cycles, and seasonal rotations; ensure dishes are costed, scalable, and aligned with guest insights and profitability goals, • Uphold best-in-market quality for flavor, presentation, and consistency across all outlets (restaurant, concessions/QSR, café, catering, special events), • Establish and enforce recipe standards, portioning guides, prep lists, and expo protocols; ensure accurate recipe documentation and training compliance, • Recruit, train, and mentor Sous Chefs, BOH Supervisors, Cooks, Prep, Pastry (if applicable), and Utility/Dish teams, • Own culinary P&L levers: food cost, labor cost, waste, and controllables; meet or exceed targets through disciplined inventory, purchasing, and production planning, • Maintain procurement standards: negotiate with purveyors, source high-quality local/seasonal products, and ensure on-time, in-spec deliveries, • Oversee inventory controls (par levels, cycle counts), invoice accuracy, transfers, and waste tracking; drive accurate weekly/monthly closes with Finance, • Ensure kitchen equipment is maintained, calibrated, and safe; coordinate preventive maintenance and repairs, • Ensure compliance with NYC Health Code and New York State requirements; uphold policies to achieve and maintain an "A" grade, • Implement and audit HACCP-based procedures, allergen management, labeling, cooling logs, and sanitation checklists; conduct mock inspections and corrective actions, • Enforce OSHA-compliant practices, knife/hood/grease management, and safe chemical handling, • Provide clear shift briefings, prep priorities, and expo leadership; communicate proactively across departments to ensure a seamless guest experience., • Report weekly on KPIs, wins, risks, and action plans; contribute to annual planning and budgeting, • 7+ years progressive BOH leadership with 3+ years as Executive Chef or Chef de Cuisine in an elevated, chef-driven, scratch kitchen preferred, • Demonstrated success overseeing multi-outlet or high-volume operations (restaurant + catering/events; QSR/concessions a plus), • Expert-level culinary fundamentals, menu development, and plating standards for elevated dining; strong knowledge of regional/seasonal sourcing, • Proven financial acumen: food/labor cost control, menu engineering, inventory systems, and vendor negotiations, • Must be available on weekends, holidays, nights, and days, • Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision, • Effective time management skills, • Working environment is fast paced, • Must be able to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds infrequently, • Limited exposure to physical risk, • Limited physical effort required Job Posted by ApplicantPro

Job Description FOOD & BEVERAGE DIRECTOR - Destination KP Sports Facilities Management, LLC LOCATION: Kings Park, NY DEPARTMENT: FOOD AND BEVERAGE REPORTS TO: GENERAL MANAGER STATUS: FULL-TIME (EXEMPT) ABOUT THE COMPANY: Destination KP is a premier sport, recreation and entertainment destination focused on improving the health and economic vitality of Kings Park, NY. You will be joining a championship level team focused on fun, fulfillment and service built to enrich the community as well as your career and personal growth. Destination KP is a managed facility by Sports Facilities Management, LLC, a Sports Facilities Companies (SFC) company. SFC is the nation's leading resource for managing and developing sports, recreation, wellness, and events facilities. We provide a highly collaborative and supportive culture that raises our team members to new levels of career growth. Together, we will carve a path in a hyper-growing industry where you will enjoy the journey and learn from the industry's best while having some fun. SFC was awarded national recognition as a Top Workplace and is considered a workplace of choice. Our mission-focused company is highly entrepreneurial, team-oriented with a culture centered on collaboration, accountability, excellence, and service. We are growing rapidly and looking for high performers at every level to grow with us. POSITION SUMMARY: The Food & Beverage Director is responsible for concessions and catering operations, inventory management, product ordering, training and developing Team Members, budget management, and achieving margin KPI's. This position is responsible for delivering an exceptional food and beverage experience for all park guests and is an essential leadership role on our Team. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING: • Develop an annual Food & Beverage strategic plan that includes budget, margin, menu mix, customer experience expectations, and KPI's, • Successfully direct all aspects of the complex's food and beverage operations and strategy, • Provide strategic quality control for all product inventory management processes, • Provide strategic direction and input in all food & beverage marketing initiatives that focus on driving sales, • Provide strategic oversight in all Concessions Team Member training processes, • Effectively train and develop all alcoholic beverage servers, • Actively monitor food and alcohol product costs relating to menu pricing, margin KPI's, and product sales, • Develop and maintain bar menus that help achieve budget and plan KPI's while enhancing the guest experience at the park, • Use stakeholder feedback to identify operational/service trends and implement strategic initiatives that improve the client/customer experience, • Consistently execute quality control checks for "Guest 1s" service standards, product quality, transaction times, menu accuracy, and health inspection compliance, • Effectively collaborate with all applicable departments to maximize sales, ensure operational alignment, provide applicable support, retain clients, and continuously improve the guest experience, • Serve on the facility's leadership team, • Serve as the Manager on Duty (MOD) when scheduled, • Proven success of effective management strategy and performance in a high-volume concessions, bar, and catering environment, • Excellent knowledge of food cost, pricing, and profit margin food & beverage analysis, • Extensive management, training, and Team Member development experience, • Experience and success in customer service, leadership, and concessions/bar/catering execution, • Action-oriented personality with a 'get it done' attitude and proficiency for efficiency, • Must be at least 21 years old, • 5-7 years of food & beverage management experience (including bar operations and catering), • 3-5 years of food & beverage budget management experience, • ServSafe Alcohol and Manager Certifications are required (can be obtained within 90 days), • TIPS Certification is required (can be obtained within 90 days), • Requires strong communication skills, both verbal and written, • Must have strong leadership skills, • Must be detail-oriented and have outstanding organizational skills, • Ability to maintain focus in a high-volume, fast paced environment, • Must be able to work under pressure and be decisive, • Ability to motivate Team Members, • Ability to prioritize a high volume of tasks, • Must be able to work well in a team setting, • Must have strong mathematical skills, • Must be able to work extensive hours including nights, weekends, and holidays as needed, • Must be able to lift 50 pounds waist high, • May be required to sit or stand for extended periods of time whether indoors or outdoors, and squat, stoop, bend, carry, lift, pull, and push, • Will be required to operate a computer, • Facility has intermittent noise Job Posted by ApplicantPro

Job Description Job Title: Banquet Server Department: Banquets Reports To: Banquet Manager FLSA Status: Non-Exempt Summary: Sells, serves, and setup of food and beverages in an efficient, professional manner according to guests at venues and catering events. Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned. • Assist with the complete setup and breakdown of the banquet area., • Cleans and organizes assigned stations in dining and bar areas prior to service., • Relay food and beverage orders., • Serves customers in a professional manner as per training guidelines., • Maintains service areas such as the kitchen, dining room, bar, and service stations during entire shift., • Cross-serves and/or assists team members on an as-needed basis., • Carries service trays in and out of kitchen, bar and dining room., • Receives customer payments, completes guest check transactions and tenders proper change to customers., • Communicates health and/or safety concerns/violations immediately to management. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Language Ability: Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization. Math Ability: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs. Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations. Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud. Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 40 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include ability to adjust focus. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to sit and taste or smell.

Position: Food Service Manager. Demonstrate excellent customer service using standard service model. Lessing's operates 21 wedding and catering venues, 16 full-service restaurants, over 75 corporate and academic dining centers, a historic inn, and a presidential yacht.

Position: Food Service Cashier. Service customers' requests and complaints and make sure that any serious complaint is brought to the notice of the manager. Lessing's operates 21 wedding and catering venues, 16 full-service restaurants, over 75 corporate and academic dining centers, a historic inn,

The Chef Manager manages catering onsite service in accordance with ARAMARK?s standardized program to meet or exceed client expectations, while staying within established budget guidelines.

The Supervisor of Commercial Cleaning is responsible for managing and coordinating day-to-day operations of Wheatley Farms Commercial Cleaning. Train all commercial cleaning staff in residential and commercial cleaning methods. Collaborate with Business Operations Manager, Catering and Commercial Cl

Job Description Anthony Scotto Restaurants is currently looking for a Banquet Director for one of our Fine Dining restaurants. At Anthony Scotto Restaurants, our culinary teams are constantly evolving to keep our offerings absolutely fresh and exciting. We accomplish this by using the finest, quality ingredients available, regardless of cost, and by updating our menus to reflect the flavors of each season. Our steakhouse cuisine has expanded beyond the classics, to include world renowned sushi and sashimi, exotic cuts of beef, flavorful composed dishes and fresh seafood flown in from around the globe. All of our restaurants feature award winning wine lists with over 450 different vintages of wine by the bottle and 40 wines by the glass, plus creative homemade desserts imagined and prepared by our in-house pastry chefs. We are seeking an energetic and well-organized banquet manager to provide our customers with a first-class banquet experience. As a banquet manager, you will liaise with the General Manager and the Executive Chef to meet customer expectations. Your duties will include controlling the cost and quality of services, preparing the venue, and coordinating the service of meals. To be successful as a banquet manager, you should exhibit extensive experience in managing banquets and delivering services within budget. Outstanding Banquet Managers ensure that customers receive a level of service that exceeds expectations. UNPARALLED COMPENSATION & BENEFITS • Industry-leading salaries, • Revenue based quarterly bonuses- Our success is your success!, • United Health Care Oxford - medical Insurance with company contribution, • Dental and Vision Insurance, • 401K, • Discussing sales contract details with the General Manager and the Executive Chef., • Planning the venue layout according to the number of guests and the type of event., • Determining the number of table waiters and servers required., • Supervising the placement of tables, chairs, cutlery, plates, glasses, table linens, centerpieces, heating lamps, serving utensils, and carving stations., • Consulting with the Executive Chef regarding the timing of meal courses to be served., • Overseeing the seating of guests, the serving of meals and beverages, and the clearing of tables., • Managing the availability of liquor and soft drinks, when required., • Preparing work schedules and completing documentation in a timely manner. QUALIFICATIONS: • Accredited certificate or diploma in catering, culinary Arts, hospitality, or similar., • Bachelor's degree in hospitality and culinary arts preferred but not required, • 3-5 years of experience in banquet management, or similar., • Proficiency in catering management software, • Exceptional ability to plan banquets, manage budgets, and meet deadlines., • Experience in supervising banquet venue staff., • Ability to collaborate with General Managers and Executive Chefs., • Extensive knowledge of catering equipment and venue requirements., • In-depth knowledge of hospitality industry best practices., • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Anthony Scotto is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer. More details about Anthony Scotto Restaurants can be found by visiting