Executive Chef

at  TopGolf

What You’ll Do
The Executive Chef ensures our guests receive best-in-class, off-the-chart, rockstar-level meals by leading the Kitchen Team and supervising all venue culinary activities. It requires two important skill sets - culinary management and great leadership.
The Executive Chef supervises, trains, coaches, and drives engagement with their team to ensure the highest-quality culinary experience for our guests. They also manage the culinary operations - scheduling labor, managing inventory, ordering product, ensuring safety and sanitation, maintaining kitchen areas and maintaining vendor relationships.

How You’ll Do It

• Supervise the team in providing best-in-class culinary experiences
• Coach and develop the team and drive Associate engagement
• Delegate tasks and work with your team
• Demonstrate Topgolf’s Core Values: Fun, One Team, Excellence, Edgy Spirit and Caring
• Monitor inventory and purchase product
• Maintain food and labor costs according to budget, with a full understanding of COGS
• Select and develop recipes to corporate approval
• Standardize production recipes to ensure consistent quality
• Establish presentation technique and maintain quality standards
• Plan and cost menus for special events, chef choice menus
• Ensure proper equipment operation and maintenance
• Oversee safety and sanitation in the kitchen
• Create action plans to respond to opportunities
• Communicate and effectively partner with upper management, Home Office Leadership and vendors

What We’re Looking For

• Minimum of 8 years in culinary management
• Proven ability to develop a culinary team
• Bachelor’s degree or related culinary degree preferred
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment
• Ability to stand and exert well-paced mobility for the duration of a scheduled shift
• Ability to stand and walk for extended periods of time
• Ability to lift items weighing up to 50 lb.
• Ability to stoop and bend
• Ability to work in high-temperature conditions (up to 100 degrees) for extended periods of time

• Supervise the team in providing best-in-class culinary experiences
• Coach and develop the team and drive Associate engagement
• Delegate tasks and work with your team
• Demonstrate Topgolf’s Core Values: Fun, One Team, Excellence, Edgy Spirit and Caring
• Monitor inventory and purchase product
• Maintain food and labor costs according to budget, with a full understanding of COGS
• Select and develop recipes to corporate approval
• Standardize production recipes to ensure consistent quality
• Establish presentation technique and maintain quality standards
• Plan and cost menus for special events, chef choice menus
• Ensure proper equipment operation and maintenance
• Oversee safety and sanitation in the kitchen
• Create action plans to respond to opportunities
• Communicate and effectively partner with upper management, Home Office Leadership and vendor