Director of Culinary Operations – Food Systems
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Remote culinary systems director standardizing recipes, food safety, and quality across restaurant locations. Leading distributed culinary teams while improving food cost, waste, and margins.
Responsibilities:
- Assess products, menus, recipes, and suppliers using data, reports, and remote evidence review
- Diagnose and direct fixes for taste, consistency, and food-safety failures through the on-site Head Chef and location teams
- Build controlled recipes and process standards with clear tolerances and version control
- Lead menu engineering by fixing, repositioning, or removing underperforming products
- Establish food-safety and traceability controls, including root-cause analysis on failures
- Recruit, train, and develop culinary leaders across locations remotely
- Own the culinary drivers of food cost, waste, and margin
- Build systems, standards, and leadership practices that keep quality consistent across every location
Requirements:
- Significant senior culinary leadership in a complex, multi-location environment
- Proven ability to restore product quality and build repeatable systems — not just cook well
- Comfortable leading and directing kitchen execution remotely, through on-site leads
- Strong understanding of food cost, yield, and labor economics
- Food safety and quality assurance experience
- Advanced, practical use of AI and data tools for culinary management
- Experience managing across multiple concepts, cuisines, or dayparts (bonus)
- Experience directing culinary teams remotely or across distributed locations (bonus)
- Beverage operations or dining service experience (bonus)
- Track record building training and succession pipelines for culinary teams (bonus)
- Ability to lead and influence kitchen teams effectively without being physically present
- Ability to balance exacting culinary standards with commercial judgment
Benefits:
- HMO (health insurance)
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Work from anywhere
- Opportunities for promotion
- Pay raise
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