Oversee P&L, establish food and beverage budgets, manage costs, and promote revenue growth across all F&B outlets, property-wide.
Participation in new outlet openings, renovations, and rebrands, input into capital expenditure planning for kitchen builds and renovations, collaboration with architecture & design on kitchen layout and flow, and partnership with departmental peers and leaders (facilities, HR, etc.)
Build a culture that enhances cross-property and corporate culinary collaboration.
Oversight of total revenue/budget, labor cost modeling and productivity metrics.
Benchmarking food cost benchmarking across diverse outlet types (fine dining vs. casual vs. banquet).
Review and communicate financial and other reports according to policy and practice. Be prepared to support findings with analysis.
Build weekly forecasts and plan operating staff and cost expenditures to align with forecasted sales and costs.
Monitor actual sales and revenues to determine variance and assess goal accomplishments. Adjust strategies and forecasts accordingly.
Adhere to the recruitment process, hire the best talent available from inside or outside the organization.
Build expectations, lead, train, manage processes and mentor executive chefs and culinary staff to ensure top-tier performance. Ensure succession planning and culinary talent pipeline development.
Manage and maintain positive union, labor relations.
Lead VIP and high-roller dining experience curation, integrate with casino marketing, loyalty programs, and hosted guest programs and manage private dining, chef's table, and exclusive event experiences
Coordinate the purchase of food and related culinary equipment and supplies, ensuring an adequate balance of pars to eliminate outages and reduce capital costs.
Support procurement with vendor contract negotiation at scale and responsible for sustainability and sourcing standards (locally sourced, seasonal, etc.)
Seek opportunities to increase food revenue, decrease kitchen expenses, and improve departmental efficiency without compromising guest happiness.
Develop and preserve accurate inventory records. Join in scheduled inventories. Advise on relevant actions following the results of inventory reports.
Provide daily and periodic operational reporting as required by company and regulatory policies.
Build and sustain connections with culinary suppliers.
Implement and maintain consistently high departmental standards.
Ensure all property policies and procedures are fully implemented, including strict adherence to health, food safety, sanitation guidelines and health department codes.
Complete consistent and high-quality food presentation, constantly striving to improve. Ensure that any special dietar
Benefits
Health insurance
Additional Information
Our team members are the key to our company's success, and their health and well-being, as well as that of their families, is very important to us. We offer a comprehensive benefits package that allows our team members stay healthy, plan for their future and maintain a healthy work-life balance. Benefits may vary with employment status. To see our fill list of Team Member Benefits please visit our career site: www.gotoworkhappy.com/benefits
Job Description:
Coming soon to the Las Vegas Strip, Hard Rock Las Vegas will be a fully integrated luxury resort offering world-class hospitality, gaming, dining, entertainment and retail. Positioned on the 50-yard line of the Strip, the resort will feature a nearly 700 ft. guitar-shaped hotel that will change the Las Vegas skyline. The finished complex will feature over 3,700 hotel rooms, approximately 175,000 square feet of gaming space, two spas, multiple pools, live entertainment venues and dozens of restaurants, lounges and retail outlets.
The Vice President - Culinary, reporting to the SVP - Food & Beverage, is responsible for responsible for the strategic direction, financial performance, and operational excellence of all casino dining outlets, in room dining, banquet services, and kitchens. Develops menus, procures culinary equipment and ingredients, and ensures the quality of all culinary dishes that are served; and supervises, trains and develops the staff of all kitchens and ensures all adherence to appropriate food safety/sanitation guidelines, in accordance with local health and safety regulations.
Seminole Hard Rock · Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas