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All Accor

Global hotel management, franchising, loyalty program

Chef de cuisine

Culinary & Kitchen ProductionUpdated on Nov 11
Full-timePresles, FranceNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Responsibilities

  • Define and maintain a distinctive culinary identity aligned with the establishment's history, destination, architecture, and positioning.
  • Develop creative, elegant cuisine emphasizing product quality, seasonality, local producers, and balanced flavors.
  • Design, renew, and structure menus across the restaurant, bar, room service, breakfast, banquets, and events, according to the hotel's scope.
  • Ensure a consistent culinary experience across services while adapting the offering to different customer segments.
  • Monitor gastronomic developments and identify relevant trends to strengthen the establishment's appeal.
  • Develop collaborations with local producers, artisans, chefs, or partners when they support the hotel's positioning.
  • Ensure consistent dish quality, execution, and presentation.
  • Supervise and participate in organizing production, preparation, service dispatch, and coordination among kitchen stations.
  • Maintain an operational presence appropriate to busy periods and customer expectations.
  • Collaborate with food-service management and dining-room teams to provide a smooth, personalized, and coherent guest experience.
  • Analyze customer feedback, online reviews, and satisfaction indicators and define corrective actions.
  • Ensure quality during events, group meals, receptions, and high-profile functions.
  • Lead, structure, and coordinate a brigade of approximately twenty employees, with clear organization and defined responsibilities.
  • Recruit, onboard, train, and retain talent in line with the establishment's needs.
  • Prepare schedules and organize staffing according to activity forecasts, service requirements, and regulations.
  • Promote a management culture based on role-model conduct, knowledge transfer, accountability, and mutual respect.
  • Develop employee versatility and skills and prepare future supervisors.
  • Maintain a professional, inclusive, and high-performing work environment that supports team retention.
  • Own the economic performance of the kitchen department in coordination with general management and finance teams.
  • Prepare the department's annual budget and contribute to activity forecasts.
  • Define, monitor, and optimize food costs and menu profitability.
  • Control personnel costs, hours worked, and staffing levels against business volume.
  • Create technical recipe sheets and control portion weights, yields, and production costs.
  • Optimize purchasing, inventory, stock rotation, and waste reduction.
  • Participate in supplier negotiations and select partners based on quality, reliability, cost, and responsible business practices.
  • Make decisions about equipment investment and contribute to the department's investment plan.
  • Ensure compliance with hygiene, food safety, and traceability regulations.
  • Ensure implementation of the food safety management plan and HACCP procedures.
  • Oversee temperature checks and procedures for cooling, storage, reheating, and allergen management.
  • Train and raise team awareness of hygiene and safety practices.
  • Anticipate health risks and immediately implement measures when non-compliance occurs.
  • Develop sourcing practices that favor seasonal products, short supply chains, and responsible producers where appropriate.
  • Reduce food waste through improved production planning and regular analysis of losses.
  • Raise team awareness of sustainability while maintaining quality and guest-experience standards.
  • Participate in the hotel's social-responsibility initiatives and contribute to advancing its commitments.
  • Participate actively in executive committee meetings and contribute to strategic decisions.
  • Represent the culinary vision in defining commercial positioning, guest experience, and the hotel's development strategy.
  • Work across accommodation, food-service, commercial, finance, technical, and human-resources departments.
  • Contribute to the hotel's annual objectives and translate strategic direction into operational action plans.
  • Identify opportunities to grow revenue, develop the offering, and improve profitability.
  • Make decisions in the collective interest of the establishment beyond the kitchen department.
  • Represent the establishment and its culinary identity to guests, partners, suppliers, and local stakeholders.

About the Company

All Accor

Global hotel management, franchising, loyalty program

Accor is a global hospitality group with a wide range of hotel brands spanning economy to luxury. It earns revenue from room bookings, food and beverage services, and management fees from franchised properties, while providing hotel management and franchising services to partners. The company runs a loyalty program, A Club, to keep guests returning, and expands its capabilities through acquisitions like Adoria and a stake in Squarebreak to broaden its offerings. Its goal is to grow its footprint and deliver consistent, responsible guest experiences worldwide by leveraging global expertise and local know‑how, with a strong focus on sustainability.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
Founded
1967

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