Director of Culinary Operations – Food Systems

🕒 2 days ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

⚙️ Operations

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Expert VA

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11 - 50 employees

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

🏥 Healthcare

Logistics • Marketing • Healthcare

Expert VA is a virtual assistant service provider that delivers expert-level support to help businesses operate efficiently and grow. The company employs highly experienced virtual assistants who are trained to manage a variety of tasks such as customer support, digital marketing, and real estate assistance among others. Expert VA emphasizes a structured approach to business processes and offers time-tracking software to enhance productivity, allowing business owners to focus on their core activities.

📋 Description

• Lead and strengthen culinary operations across multiple locations, concepts, and teams • Assess products, menus, recipes, suppliers, and production processes using data, reports, and remote evidence • Diagnose and direct fixes for taste, consistency, quality, and food-safety issues • Work through on-site Head Chefs and culinary leaders to ensure standards are executed consistently • Build controlled recipes, specifications, production standards, and processes with clear tolerances and version control • Standardize culinary systems across restaurants, commissary/central kitchen, bakery, catering, and other food operations as needed • Lead menu engineering — improve, reposition, standardize, or remove underperforming products • Establish food-safety, quality, and traceability systems, including root-cause analysis • Build training, development, and succession systems for culinary teams • Own the culinary drivers of food cost, yield, waste, consistency, and margin • Use technology, data, and AI to improve culinary decision-making, communication, and operational control • Create systems that preserve culinary knowledge and maintain continuity despite team turnover

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive culinary/F&B leadership experience, ideally at Executive Chef, Culinary Director, Corporate Chef, or equivalent level • Significant experience leading multi-location, multi-concept, or complex hospitality/F&B operations • Strong practical culinary background across different cuisines, products, and operating environments • Working knowledge of bakery and pastry operations, including products, recipes, production processes, and quality standards • Proven ability to restore product quality and build repeatable culinary systems — not just cook well • Experience with recipes, specifications, SOPs, production standards, quality control, and training systems • Comfortable leading and directing kitchen execution remotely through on-site culinary leaders • Strong understanding of food cost, yield, waste, portion control, and labor economics • Experience with food safety, quality assurance, and traceability • Strong systems, technology, data, and communication skills • Advanced, practical use of AI and modern digital tools • Strong commercial judgment and the ability to balance culinary quality with profitability

🏖️ Benefits

• HMO / Health Insurance • Paid Time Off (PTO) • Additional Leave • Work from Anywhere / Work from Home • Performance-Based Pay Raises