Hourly Kitchen Manager - Cheever's Cafe Tulsa

Cheever’s Café has been part of the OKC community for many years, built on simple traditions of good food and Extreme Hospitality. In December 2024, we brought that same spirit to Tulsa, where we’re excited to grow roots and become a true part of the community. Come be part of our story—Cheever’s Tulsa is now hiring an hourly Kitchen Manager.

POSITION SUMMARY The HKM is responsible for assisting the Chef De Cuisine in maintaining a positive and friendly environment. HKMs assist in training, guest service, hospitality, product knowledge, education, encouraging safe and sanitary work practices, and a demonstrated commitment to our policies and procedures while upholding A Good Egg Dining Group’s mission to positively impact lives by building enduring memories and multi-generational relationships through a dedication to executional excellence, intentional service, extreme hospitality, and culinary trust. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS/ KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintains positive morale and a high-energy, fun work environment.

• Maintains a clean, organized, and stocked environment, requisitioning additional product when necessary.

• Prepares a variety of meats, seafood, poultry, vegetables, and other food items for cooking in smokers, broilers, ovens, grills, fryers, and a variety of other kitchen equipment.

• Ensures that all food and products are consistently prepared and served according to the restaurant’s recipes, portioning, cooking, and serving standards.

• Executes line checks before each shift, and tastes products on a per shift basis for quality assurance.

• Assists the Chef de Cuisine in maintaining proper team member coverage and identifies staffing needs in a timely manner.

• Ensures that team members are educated on all of our products by being an expert on all of our food, polices, and procedures.

• Consistently monitors, coaches, and encourages team members to meet hospitality and service standards.

• Actively uses all training programs in order to develop leaders amongst fellow team members.

• Facilitates teamwork amongst employees and provides coaching and meaningful feedback on performance expectations.

• Is able to perform all BOH team member duties. Assigns and ensures completion of duties to support store operations.

• Attends and sometimes leads shift meetings to align team members and ensure a cohesive work environment.

• Responsible for maintaining appropriate cleaning schedules for kitchen floors, mats, walls, hoods, other equipment and food storage areas.

• Check and maintain proper food holding and refrigeration temperature control points.

• Ensures that all equipment is kept clean and kept in excellent working condition through personal inspection and by following the restaurant’s preventative maintenance programs.

• Promotes and practices safe and sanitary work habits, reports potential safety hazards, operational inconsistencies, and team member incidents to the store managers.

• Works with Chef de Cuisine to plan and price daily specials that are consistent with the restaurant’s concept.

• Is available to fill in as needed to ensure the smooth and efficient operation of the restaurant as directed by the Chef de Cuisine.

QUALIFICATIONS

• A minimum of 1 year experience in kitchen preparation and cooking.

• Must be able to communicate clearly with managers, kitchen, and dining room personnel and guests.

• Be able to reach, bend, stoop and frequently lift up to 80 pounds.

• Be able to work in a standing position for long periods of time (up to 9 hours).