kitchen manager
Restaurant brigade leader
A kitchen manager oversees the daily operations of a restaurant or institutional kitchen.
The role typically includes hiring and supervising staff, ordering supplies, controlling costs, maintaining food safety standards, and ensuring quality.
Unlike an executive chef, who focuses primarily on menu creation and cooking, a kitchen manager handles the business and logistics side: The kitchen manager caught the inventory discrepancy before it became a problem.
- chefProfessional kitchen leader
- head cookKitchen's senior culinary leader
- sous chefKitchen's second-in-command
- supervisorOne who directs workers
- restaurantPlace serving meals
orders · inventory · staff · schedule · time clock · apron · expeditor · back of house · front of house · prep · tickets · rush · service · stations · menu · plating · portion control · food cost
- cafeteria workerslunch lady, cook, chef, cashier, server
- food workersbutcher, bartender, server, caterer, chef
- kitchen jobschef, cook, head chef, sous chef, executive chef
- kitchen staffchef, sous chef, head chef, cook, line cook
- restaurant workerswaiter, waitress, server, chef, cook
- Restaurant Operationsmenu planning, staff scheduling, inventory, food cost, reservations
kitchen managerfloor manager
Supervisor of retail area
maître d · head waiter · hostess · server · sommelier
kitchen managerline cook
Kitchen staff at stations
prep cook · dishwasher · kitchen staff · kitchen porter · kitchen assistant
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