Chef de Partie - In Room Dining
Full-time Job-Category: Culinary Job Type: Permanent Job Schedule: Full-Time
Company Description
Join us at Accor, where life pulses with passion!
As a pioneer in the art of responsible hospitality, the Accor Group gathers more than 45 brands, 5,600 hotels, 10,000 restaurants, and lifestyle destinations in 110 countries. While each brand has its own personality, where you will be able to truly find yourself, they all share a common ambition: to keep innovating and challenging the status-quo.
By joining us, you will become a Heartist®, because hospitality is, first and foremost, a work of heart.
You will join a caring environment and a team where you can be all you are. You will be in a supportive place to grow, to fulfil yourself, to discover other professions and to pursue career opportunities, in your hotel or in other hospitality environments, in your country or anywhere in the world!
You will enjoy exclusive benefits, specific to the sector and beyond, as well as strong recognition for your daily commitment.
Everything you will do with us, regardless of your profession, will offer a deep sense of meaning,to create lasting, memorable and impactful experiences for your customers, for your colleagues and for the planet.
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Job Description
Key Deliverables and Responsibilities
Planning & Organizing:
- The ability to utilize information on forecasts and reports to enable the planning of a smooth uninterrupted operation and service our guests; i.e. food production, purchasing & manpower planning.
- The ability to make requisitions of all items needed for the next day, with the assistance of the senior chef on duty.
- The ability to prioritise, plan and organise your and your teams daily tasks in order to ensure on time delivery as required.
Operations:
- The ability to motivate, supervise and be a role model for employees to follow and learn from.
- The ability to taste and season the food appropriately and to ensure it is well presented and of the standard and quality required before serving it to the guest.
- The ability to distribute work equally to employees and follow up those instructions as per hotel standards.
- The ability to train and develop junior chefs.
- The ability to expedite the “food pass” for a la carte restaurants.
- The ability to communicate and pass on information and confirm the comprehension of information with staff and ensure a smooth uninterrupted operation and service to our guests
- The ability to discipline and ensure the quality of employee's work in the absence of a senior Chef.
- The ability to act as a liaison between the Executive Chef, Executive Sous Chef and other senior Chefs and the line employees.
- Possesses knowledge of basic butchering, portioning, preparation and storage of seafood, fish, pork, beef, chicken and other types of wild game and variety meats.
- To report in the kitchen at your station at scheduled times regardless of beginning of shift or returning from meal break
- The ability to follow instruction and work closely with the senior chef, Executive Sous Chef and Executive Chef.
- The ability to work as directed on station of assignment under the appropriate senior chef.
- To report in the kitchen at your station at scheduled times regardless of beginning off shift or returning from meal break.
- To wear uniforms according to Swissôtel standards.
- The ability to work closely with standard recipes, photos and plate presentations in order to maintain quality standards and presentation in accordance with Swissôtel established guidelines and standards
- The ability to work neatly and clean; keeping all work areas and refrigerators organized and in accordance with sanitary requirements. “First in First Out” & “If you make the mess, you clean it up”
- The ability to follow HACCP guidelines and municipality regulations at all times.
- The ability to follow clean as you go policy and keep work area clean at all times.
- The ability to taste and season the food appropriately and to ensure it is well presented and of the standard and quality required before serving it to the guest.
- The ability and desire to proactively learn, test and sample (eat) all world cuisines by whatever means possible whether through hotel programs and training or self-taught research and development.
- The ability to keep waste to a minimum and work in a proactive manner to assist in meeting budgeted food cost levels
- The ability to maintain a cooperative working relationship with fellow employees
- The ability to perform other tasks or projects as assigned by hotel management and staff
- The ability to leave enough mise en place for the next shift and utilize formalized production lists and following a shift-handover SOP
- The ability to accommodate all food server's requests when possible regarding guest's dietary requirements, personal preference and requests
- The ability to handle and rotate food according to established procedures.
- The ability to maintain the work area and equipment in a safe and sanitary manner.
- The ability to maintain a positive attitude and a professional disposition.
- The ability to maintain a full line of communication with supervisors and fellow workers and all hotel associates.
- The ability to prepare and plate items (food orders) received from F&B staff regardless of hand-written or computer printed media in a timely and accurate manner.
- The ability to work closely with the senior chef in preparing mise en place.
- The ability to check and complete mise en place pars in setting up the station.
- The ability to turn off all equipment ensuring no safety hazard has been left behind
- The ability to set up station properly and on time for each service period.
- The ability to make sure all food is prepared by recipes designated by the senior chef.
- The ability to make sure quality and quantity meets our standard.
- The ability to notify senior chef of any problems or complaints as when they arise.
- The ability to not leave your section without doing the final check.
- The ability to be able to work in another area when needed and take part in cross training when directed.
- The ability to be able to assist in same day preparation and advance preparation for another station as instructed by the supervisor
- The ability to all food items for storage must be covered, dated and labelled according established guidelines, standards and checklists.
- The ability to be able to work unsupervised.
- The ability to be able to be flexible to the business demands and working hours.
- The ability to; throughout the working day switch off and clean oven tops, kitchen equipment and work areas as well as all work surfaces.
- The ability to be able to assist and direct the stewards with the daily cleaning tasks.
- Follow all kitchen regulations as outlined and directed
- Swipe in and out has to be done in uniform, not before getting changed.
Administration:
- The ability to verify that all scheduled staff are present and signed-in.
- The ability to perform administrative duties (paper work) i.e. food transfers, human resource forms, scheduling and recipes.
- The ability to communicate with the Executive Chef, Executive Sous Chef or Senior Chef on the performance of all employees and of the work performed.
- The ability to display an interest in all kitchen and hotel activities and help colleagues when and where ever possible.
- The ability to respond properly in any hotel emergency or safety situation.
- The ability to handle and rotate food according to established procedures
- The ability to be able to come to any and all kitchen meetings whilst on duty or otherwise.
- The ability to sign acceptance for tools, knives, uniforms etc. and will pay back to the company for any
