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50 Bloor St W, Toronto, ON

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50 Bloor St W, Toronto, ON

Pastry Chef, busy afternoon tea catering operation. Most shifts 7:30am - 3:30pm.

Toronto, Ontario (view on map)

Posted 28 days ago

Job Description

Pastry Chef

The Pastry Chef will be responsible for designing dessert menus, afternoon tea, preparing pastries, and ensuring a consistent product that meets our standards for quality and presentation

Specific responsibilities include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Ensure Pastry culinary standards for product quality, taste, presentation and execution are met in a consistent and timely manner

• Train cooks to develop pastry skills within the team

• Model appropriate standards, parameters and prescribed limits to kitchen staff; helping them to understand how they drive business

• Ensure that the Executive Chefs standards for product quality, taste, and execution are met in a consistent and timely manner

• Support and supervise the kitchen staff and motivate staff to take ownership of their work and deliver amazing service

• Support the achievement of sales volume and margin as determined by seasonal plans by creating profitable dishes

• Drive creation of afternoon tea dessert items. Showcasing creativity and skill with vendor brand partnerships.

• Ensure the kitchen meets or exceeds all health regulations, standards and codes – including safety practices, hygiene practices, and safe food handling and storage practices

• Controls waste of food

• Works swiftly and safely to deliver quick client service

• Controls waste of food, ensures proper rotation of perishable stock and maintains prep and storage areas in a clean, tidy and safe manner

• Keep records of quantities used and assists with food and supplies ordering

• Comply with all Health & Safety policies and requirement

• Build recipe databases for all pastry dishes in marketman

The ideal candidate:

• High school diploma

• Culinary school graduate

• Minimum of 5 years culinary experience within a renowned pastry kitchen environment

• Exude positivity and possess a welcoming and enthusiastic can-do attitude

• Exceptional ability to provide elevated guest experience

• Excellent leadership & communication skills

• Excellent overall pastry & bakery knowledge

• Experience working with chocolate & sugar

• Strong attention to detail

The measures of success:

• Individual objectives linked to the achievement of department goals

• Feedback from internal and external clients

• customer service results/ open table feedback

• positive impact on revenue with the target/focus of afternoon tea results