Executive Chef High Volume Catering

Found a culinary operation at scale.

True North Nutrition makes elevated school lunches full-service catering and premium food products for retail and wholesale. All profit is donated to a nonprofit private school to lower tuition and widen access. Youll lead the whole operation: food systems staff and growth.

• Salary

  • $70000 to $90000 performance incentives tied to growth and profitability

• Scale

  • About 400 school lunches a day across five schools to start with a goal of over 1000 plus catering and retail products

• Reports to

  • Head of Staff

• You lead

  • Culinary staff interns and externs

• Benefits

• $250/month toward health insurance 401(k) with 6% match 10 days PTO paid holidays

Run the kitchen

• Lead every part of True North Nutritions culinary operation

• Design and run an elevated school lunch program starting at about 400 meals a day across five schools

• Build production systems that hold quality at scale

• Develop seasonal menus standardized recipes and production schedules

• Keep the kitchen compliant with food safety sanitation licensing health National School Lunch Program and DOE rules

Grow the business

• Grow lunch volume from 400 to over 1000 a day

• Build a profitable catering operation for corporate nonprofit and community clients

• Create and launch specialty food products for wholesale and retail

• Find new revenue and efficiency and align the kitchen with leaderships long-term goals

Lead the team and the numbers

• Recruit train and mentor culinary staff with a culture of accountability

• Manage food cost labor cost inventory purchasing and vendors

• Create real learning experiences for culinary interns and externs

• 5 years of progressive culinary leadership

• Experience running high-volume production or commissary kitchens

• Catering food manufacturing or multi-unit food service experience preferred

• Budgeting forecasting and cost management skills

• A record of building teams and developing leaders

• ServSafe Manager Certification or the ability to get it on hire

• An entrepreneurial whatever it takes mindset and a passion for business as a force for social impactWhy this role

Youll have real autonomy to build a culinary brand and new revenue and the profit you generate goes to underprivileged students education.