Kitchen Manager

Kitchen Manager

McDonald's Works for Me. I’m going places. I want a satisfying career with good benefits and great opportunities for advancement. I have a lot to offer and want to grow.

The Job for Me – Get a job that inspires your best and moves you forward. Choose your hours. Pursue your education. Build your skills and be yourself.

The Team for Me – Our people want to say YES — to working with energy and purpose, finding new talent, providing coaching and direction, honing their leadership skills, and helping to run a business that serves up delicious food and feel‑good moments. Does this sound like you? You’ll fit right in.

The Company for Me – From here, you can go further than you thought possible. Reach your goals and build your future with college tuition assistance, valuable job training, and retirement benefits.

This position requires a passionate, mature leader with the ability to lead a kitchen operations team to routinely provide Gold Standard Food, manage inventory, adhere to strict food safety standards, and provide a great work environment.

• Create daily routines that produce predictable and well‑coordinated kitchen operations at all times.
• Training and coaching to ensure quality food, achieve targeted food cost, and improve waste from products that are not prepared to Gold Standard.
• Ensure proper product levels are maintained by daily, weekly, and monthly inventories and proper ordering procedures are adhered to.
• Ensure optimum staffing daily so that food production keeps up with busy periods; motivate and keep team members engaged by reviewing schedules, ensuring the kitchen is staffed day and night, and providing proper training for new staff.
• Keep all equipment serviceable and clean, clearly communicating with leadership when repairs are needed; grills are cleaned regularly, "recovered" on a monthly basis, and vats are filtered daily and boiled out monthly for better warming and cooking.
• Maintain an immaculate workspace; all daily, weekly, and monthly cleaning schedules are followed and completed. Smallwares are present and ordered as needed and used IAW grill tool organizer and table setup in place.
• Ensure food safety in the kitchen is ongoing: daily food safety checklists are completed; all refrigerators and freezers are at proper temperatures; grills and fryers are checked routinely for calibration to cook all products to the right temperature.
• Ensure daily routines are established for WHO, WHEN, and HOW all products are correctly tempered and pulled for thawing each day.
• Ensure all kitchen staff are in the correct, neat, and clean uniform daily and keep a professional appearance and demeanor at all times.

Along with competitive pay, a Kitchen Manager is eligible for incredible benefits:

• 14 days paid vacation
• Education through Archways to Opportunity including opportunities to earn a High School degree, college tuition assistance, and English classes as a second language
• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Pre‑tax flexible spending accounts
• Short‑ and Long‑Term Disability, life and accident insurance
• Paid Leaves of Absence
• Service awards
• Employee Resource Connection
• 401K program

This job posting contains some information about what it is like to work in a McDonald’s restaurant, but it is not a complete job description. People who work in a McDonald’s restaurant perform a number of different tasks every day, and this posting does not list all of the essential functions of this job.

By applying to this position, I understand that I am applying to work at a restaurant that is owned and operated by an independent franchisee, not McDonald’s USA. I understand that this franchisee is a separate company and a separate employer from McDonald’s USA. Any information I provide in this application will be submitted only to the independent franchisee, who is the only company responsible for employment matters at this restaurant.

I recognize that the independent franchisee alone will make all decisions concerning employment matters, including hiring, firing, discipline, supervision, staffing and scheduling. By applying for a job at a franchisee operated restaurant, I understand that the information I provide will be forwarded to the franchisee organization in order for that organization to reach out to me and process and evaluate my application.

I acknowledge that McDonald’s USA will not receive a copy of my employment application and will have no involvement in any employment decisions regarding me, including whether I receive an interview or whether I am hired to work for the franchisee. I understand that I need to contact the franchise organization for information about its privacy practices.