Kitchen Lead
About this role
CINÉPOLIS CAREERS
Cinépolis USA is a luxury cinema exhibitor offering enhanced movie-going experiences through our “Cinépolis Luxury Cinemas” and “Movie House & Eatery” theater concepts. Based in Dallas, we operate 26 luxury and premium theaters across California, Florida, New Jersey, Connecticut, Texas, Maryland, and Ohio, with plans to expand further. As part of Cinépolis International, the most popular movie theater exhibitor globally, we are dedicated to innovation, film, and hospitality worldwide.
AS A CINÉPOLIS TEAM MEMBER, YOU ARE WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT TO US!
Our team members enjoy a generous employee discount on tickets, food, and nonalcoholic beverages, and they also receive gifts for reaching milestone work anniversaries!
BASE PAY
$15.50 - $19.50JOB DESCRIPTION
DEPARTMENT: Operations
LOCATION: Theater
REPORTS TO: General Manager
JOB DUTIES
• Assist the KM to provide direction, coaching and leadership for all BOH employees (including food preparation and production, safety and sanitation and company policies and procedures)
• Delivers exceptional guest experience through execution of great food
• Utilizes all tools necessary to ensure quality food is prepared to recipe specification within company approved ticket times
• Ensure the freshness of food product through proper purchasing and product rotation, utilizing the FIFO method
• Checks food storage and temperatures daily, records the temperatures on the log sheet and notifies maintenance of any issues
• Communicated, implements, and follow up on all changes for food products and kitchen systems and procedures/ if applicable
• Perform daily opening, mid and closing operation duties
• Responsible for attending trainings for new menu items and training kitchen staff on proper preparation of new menu items
• Other duties as assigned
EDUCATION AND/OR SKILLS
- 1 year of supervisory experience preferred
• Food Certification required
• Exceptional guest service orientation
• Equally comfortable communicating and working with guests, peers, subordinates, vendors or partners
• Standing, walking, lifting, twisting, bending and traversing stairs on a frequent basis
• Availability to work during holidays, nights, and weekends
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Must act with integrity and lead by example
WORKING CONDITIONS/PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here represent those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works in a general office environment where typical levels of noise, dust, and activity can be expected. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Please note that this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be added at any time per the business needs. The employee may be asked to light lift 25lbs to 50lbs occasionally with assistance.
Cinépolis USA is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
**Cinepolis is an equal opportunity employer and, as such, affirms in policy and practice to recruit, hire, train, and promote, in all job classifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
Company at a glance
At Cinépolis USA, we like to say we’re ‘more than a movie’. We say this because we are not just a cinema. We’re an international community of people from around the world who love innovation, film and hospitality. Above all, our people and our vigor define us.
Cinépolis USA is a leading world-class cinema exhibitor that offers our guests enhanced movie-going experiences through our “Cinépolis Luxury Cinemas” and “Cinépolis” theater concepts, 4DX, and kid-approved Cinépolis Junior auditoriums.
Our US operations are based in Dallas, and we opened our first US theater in Del Mar, CA in July 2011. Today, we have some of the top performing theaters in the country, currently operating a total of 21 luxury and premium theaters with a presence in Southern California, Florida, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Texas and Ohio. Additional theaters across the U.S. are planned to open in the next few years.
Our México-based parent company, Cinépolis International, is the fourth largest movie theater exhibitor in the world. Cinépolis International was founded in Mexico in the city of Morelia, Michoacán in 1971. Today it has positioned itself as the world’s fourth largest movie theater circuit in the world, operating 712 cinema complexes, 5,771 screens and over 1,013,935 seats across 14 countries worldwide. It was the first cinema exhibitor in the world to pioneer the concept of luxury movie theaters, establishing the first luxury theater experience in 1999 in Mexico City.
Worldwide, Cinépolis aspires to provide our guests with the best overall experience in film entertainment. Together, we employ a global workforce of more than 39,030 people to support our mission.
Top Benefits
- Employee discount on tickets
- Employee discount on food
- Employee discount on nonalcoholic beverages
- Milestone work anniversary gifts
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