Sous Chef (Italian Restaurant)

**Your Day-to-Day**

**Key Responsibilities** **​**

+ Lead day-to-day kitchen operations of the Italian specialty restaurant, ensuring authenticity,consistency, and high-quality presentation.​
+ Develop, execute, and maintain authentic Italian menus, respecting regional traditions, seasonality,and classic techniques.​
+ Play a key role in pre-opening activities, including kitchen setup, SOP implementation, equipmenttesting, recipe standardization, and trial runs.​
+ Recruit, train, and develop the restaurant culinary team, ensuring strong product knowledge andItalian cooking fundamentals.​
+ Ensure compliance with IHG brand standards, LQA, HACCP, and local health regulations.​
+ Control food cost, labor cost, portioning, wastage, and inventory in line with approved budgets.​
+ Work closely with Procurement to source appropriate Italian ingredients and approved substituteswhere required.​
+ Collaborate with the Executive Chef on menu engineering, p...