Job Overview
Employment Type
Full-time
Compensation
Salary
Range $105,000.00 - $130,000.00
Benefits
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Paid Time Off
Retirement Plan
Employee Discounts
Professional Development
Bonuses
Job Description
The Glen Club, located in the north side Chicago suburb of Glenview, is a prestigious daily fee golf club known for its exceptional amenities and services. This world-class facility boasts a Tom Fazio-designed golf course, widely recognized for its challenging yet scenic layout that attracts golf enthusiasts and corporate members alike. The club's expansive 50,000 square foot clubhouse serves as a central hub, featuring a fully stocked golf shop, locker rooms, a full-service restaurant, spacious banquet facilities, and 21 overnight guest accommodations. Additionally, the clubhouse houses the Illinois Golf Hall of Fame, making it a significant landmark within the golfing community. This distinguished environment offers a unique blend of luxury, leisure, and tradition, catering to members who seek high-quality golfing experiences complemented by top-notch hospitality.
The role of the Kitchen Leader at The Glen Club is a dynamic, full-time, non-seasonal, salaried, and exempt position with a competitive salary range of $105,000 to $130,000 per year. This key leadership position is responsible for overseeing all food and pastry production supporting the club's restaurants, banquet functions, and other dining outlets. The Kitchen Leader plays an integral part in maintaining the highest standards of food quality and sanitation, ensuring that the culinary offerings exceed member expectations. This position involves hands-on supervision and coordination of kitchen staff, including chefs and cooks, and emphasizes menu development, food cost control, and labor budget management.
A core responsibility includes planning menus and menu pricing while taking into account customer preferences, market trends, and seasonal factors to deliver an exceptional dining experience. The Kitchen Leader will develop and refine recipes and cooking techniques to maintain consistency and minimize food costs through portion control and waste management. Collaboration with other department heads is essential to successfully prepare and execute member events, banquets, golf outings, and special holiday functions such as Easter, Mother’s Day, Thanksgiving, and Brunch with Santa.
This position also entails managing kitchen employment activities such as recruitment, selection, performance evaluations, training, and disciplinary actions, fostering a positive and professional work environment. The Kitchen Leader is expected to stay current with industry developments, ensuring The Glen Club remains at the forefront of culinary trends and operational excellence. The role demands a proactive approach to budgeting and financial management, including preparing budget reports, projecting costs, and taking corrective actions as needed to meet financial goals.
Overall, this role offers an exciting opportunity for an experienced culinary professional with strong leadership skills and a passion for excellence to contribute to one of the most respected golf clubs in the Chicago area. KemperSports Management, the company managing The Glen Club, is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion, providing an environment that values teamwork, innovation, and personal growth.
The role of the Kitchen Leader at The Glen Club is a dynamic, full-time, non-seasonal, salaried, and exempt position with a competitive salary range of $105,000 to $130,000 per year. This key leadership position is responsible for overseeing all food and pastry production supporting the club's restaurants, banquet functions, and other dining outlets. The Kitchen Leader plays an integral part in maintaining the highest standards of food quality and sanitation, ensuring that the culinary offerings exceed member expectations. This position involves hands-on supervision and coordination of kitchen staff, including chefs and cooks, and emphasizes menu development, food cost control, and labor budget management.
A core responsibility includes planning menus and menu pricing while taking into account customer preferences, market trends, and seasonal factors to deliver an exceptional dining experience. The Kitchen Leader will develop and refine recipes and cooking techniques to maintain consistency and minimize food costs through portion control and waste management. Collaboration with other department heads is essential to successfully prepare and execute member events, banquets, golf outings, and special holiday functions such as Easter, Mother’s Day, Thanksgiving, and Brunch with Santa.
This position also entails managing kitchen employment activities such as recruitment, selection, performance evaluations, training, and disciplinary actions, fostering a positive and professional work environment. The Kitchen Leader is expected to stay current with industry developments, ensuring The Glen Club remains at the forefront of culinary trends and operational excellence. The role demands a proactive approach to budgeting and financial management, including preparing budget reports, projecting costs, and taking corrective actions as needed to meet financial goals.
Overall, this role offers an exciting opportunity for an experienced culinary professional with strong leadership skills and a passion for excellence to contribute to one of the most respected golf clubs in the Chicago area. KemperSports Management, the company managing The Glen Club, is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion, providing an environment that values teamwork, innovation, and personal growth.
Job Requirements
- College degree preferred
- 8 years culinary experience
- supervisory and/or management experience
- preferably in the golf industry
- State certified and/or Serve Safe certified
- Demonstrated experience in budget development
- fiscal management
- strategic planning
- staff management
- Demonstrated quality written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to analyze and solve problems
- efficient multitasking under pressure with minimal supervision
- willingness to work flexible hours including nights and weekends
- Positive attitude
- professional manner and appearance
Job Qualifications
- College degree preferred
- 8 years culinary experience, supervisory and/or management experience, preferably in the golf industry
- State certified and/or Serve Safe certified
- Demonstrated experience and capability in the areas of budget development, fiscal management, strategic planning, staff management
- Demonstrated quality written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to analyze and solve problems
- efficiently handle multiple duties under pressure with minimal supervision
- work flexible hours as required including nights/weekends
- Positive attitude, professional manner and appearance in all situations
Job Duties
- Schedule and coordinate the work of chefs, cooks and other kitchen employees to assure that food production is economical and technically correct
- Develop recipes and techniques for food preparation and presentation, which help to assure consistently high quality and to minimize food costs
- Plan menus and menu pricing taking into consideration customer needs, marketing conditions, popularity of various dishes, holidays, costs, and a wide variety of other factors
- Approve the requisition of products and other necessary food supplies
- Ensure sanitation and cleanliness standards are maintained throughout the kitchen areas at all times
- Establish controls and monitor kitchen activities to minimize food and supply waste and theft
- Train food preparation employees regarding safety, sanitation and accident prevention principles
- Prepare all necessary data for the budget
- project annual food and labor costs
- Monitor actual financial results and take corrective action where necessary to help assure that financial goals are met
- Work well with other department heads on prep and execution of Member events, banquets (corporate and social), a la carte (restaurant, beverage carts and halfway house) golf outings and large holiday club functions (Easter, Mother’s Day, Thanksgiving and Brunch with Santa)
- Cook or directly supervise the cooking of items that require skillful preparation
- Evaluate raw food products and monitor the quality of prepared foods to assure that applicable standards are consistently attained
- Plan and manage the employee meal program, if instituted
- Manage employment activities for kitchen staff members, including but not limited to, personnel recruitment and selection, performance evaluations, training, compensation, discipline and termination, etc
- Maintain knowledge of current and projected industry developments through continuous attention to industry periodicals and participation in relevant trade associations and organizations
- Assure the efficient and timely submission of all required operational, financial, budgetary and related reports
- Perform other duties as appropriate
Job Criteria
Experience
Mid Level (3-7 years)
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