Culinary Manager
Westfield, NJFull-timePosted 1w agoStill listed 6 days ago
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The Culinary Manager leads and coordinates food preparation and cooking teams at LifeCafe, while keeping cost of goods within or below budget. The role oversees back-of-house operations, food and supply ordering, recipe and portion standards, and staff development. It also supports inventory control and makes staffing recommendations to the Café Leader.
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Position Summary
The LifeCafe Chef leads and coordinates activities of assembly and prep team members and other workers engaged in preparing and cooking food. They are responsible for keeping cost of goods in line with or better than budget. They provide leadership in the fulfillment of Life Time's mission statement and brand.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Maintains daily operations of back of house including maintaining cleanliness, ordering food and supplies, evaluating prep lists and par levels
- Observes and manages workers engaged in preparing and portioning foods to ensure that methods of cooking and sizes of portions are following recipe standards
- Supervises, trains, develops, and assesses cooks and dishwashers to ensure continuous growth through orientations, direction, and feedback
- Maximizes profit by controlling food costs through recipe adherence, proper ordering and par levels. Assists the Café Leader with inventory control
- Makes recommendations on the hiring, the promotion and termination of employees to the Café Leader
Position Requirements
- High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent
- 2+ years of experience
- Previous kitchen experience
- ServSafe Food Manager Certification or equivalent
- ServSafe Alcohol Safety or equivalent (if applicable)
- ServSafe Allergen Certification or equivalent (if applicable)
- Ability to stay calm and overcome any food production issues
- Ability to stand, walk, and/or sit for long periods of time
Preferred Requirements
- Culinary school Diploma
- Leader of a kitchen team – Ordering, Inventory, Cost Control and Menu Development
Life Time is a place for everyone. As an organization, we are committed to an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace that respects and celebrates the unique contributions of each individual while ensuring we remain an equal opportunity employer that recruits, hires, trains and promotes based on merit and qualifications.
How this job compares
Set against the 400 open Chef jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$75–85K/yr136 salary ranges
- US median$22–25/hr101 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 11 open Chef jobs in New Jersey and 400 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- Compass Group, North America132 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Chef postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (212 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 92 of the 400 open Chef jobs (23%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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