You may know us as a company with great food…

What you may not know is that our menu is fresh and made from scratch ingredients, making each of our kitchens a place for culinary excellence!

Reporting to the Executive Kitchen Manager, you will work with a culinary team highly respected in the industry for producing delicious, memorable food.

You’ll thrive in this position if you are:

Ready to embrace technology: You will work with state of the art kitchen systems and kitchen equipment and learn advanced cooking techniques.

A dynamic leader: Ready to listen, ready to solve problems and never too busy to smile and celebrate exceptional performance.

A Culinary perfectionist: At The Cheesecake Factory, it’s all in the details and YOU never miss a detail!

Here’s more of what you’ll get to do:

• Manage one of our Kitchen workgroups, Prep, Line or Dish. Be an inspiration and motivate daily excellence in culinary operations.
• Use your career experience and talents to help the restaurant reach its financial goals through skillful management in the categories of labor, food cost and kitchen supplies.
• Recruit, interview and hire talent into our kitchen staff.
• Train, mentor and develop staff members so that they can reach their career goals with our growing company. 40% of all kitchen management hires are promoted internally.
• Have fun in a fast paced environment!

Benefits:

This position offers industry-leading benefits and an average 50 hour work week with 2 days off consecutively.

Qualifications

• Must have 2+ years of kitchen management experience in a full service, moderate to high volume restaurant
• Solid track record of success in previous assignments demonstrating upward career tracking
• Culinary school background a plus
• Ability to speak and understand Spanish a plus
• Able to work ten hour-plus shifts, plus ability to stand, sit, squat or walk for extended periods of time.
• Must be able to work closing shifts and evenings as needed.
• Able to grasp, reach overhead, push, lift and carry up to 50 pounds.
• Finger/hand dexterity to operate kitchen machinery, knives, etc
• Ability to withstand changes in temperature, occasional smoke, steam and heat and work in a confined area
• Must possess hearing, visual and sensory abilities to observe and detect emergency situations; also to distinguish product, taste, texture, temperature and presentation and preparation