Assistant Food Service Director (8130)

JOB DESCRIPTION OVERVIEW

The Assistant Food Service Director (AFSD) plays an important operational, quality control, culinary, and day-to-day leadership role. The Assistant FSD helps the FSD with overseeing cafeteria based staff and service operations at a Higher Education location and is an ambassador for Genuine Foods’ to grow and maintain relationships with customers and partners. The ideal candidate enjoys working in a team environment, has customer service and culinary orientation and has experience supervising others. Most importantly, the field manager is committed to Genuine Foods’ mission to use food to improve lives and build community, and is passionate about serving students and educators. We are a fun and supportive team that values and respects each other. Genuine Foods is an equal opportunity employer.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assist the FSD with conducting daily site visits to observe school food service operations including food preparation, kitchen facilities, menu compliance, student engagement, and customer service, etc.

• Assisting the food service director with Managing the food service staff.

• Enhances culinary operations at all sites

• Fills in for food servers in the event of absence

• Proactively communicates to the management team good performance by food servers and performance that needs improvement

• Immediately informs management team to any culinary or operations issues that need their attention

• Proactively collaborates with food servers and the culinary and operations team leads to develop creative, school-specific solutions to ensure we can deliver the best possible service

• Trains school-based staff on standardized policies and procedures (e.g., clocking-in/out, using project management tools to document meals, practicing FIFO, accurately completing production records, taking physical inventory weekly, ensuring monthly menus are posted etc.)

• Other duties as assigned to ensure Genuine standards are being met