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Banquet Sous Chef

Makeready Llc
5 days ago
Full-time
On-site
Dallas, Texas, United States
Sous Chef

Recognized for more than a century as the iconic address for Dallas hospitality, The Adolphus offers timeless culture, vibrant and storied surroundings, imaginative and collaborative food and drink, and immersive experiences. In it's reimagining, the 407 room downtown hotel recalls a grand European home.


This individual is passionate, positive, creative, and cares deeply about the team that they lead. Their keen eye will manage the BEO process, work closely with the Sales team, plan banquet menus to presenting the finished product to the patron. In addition, this role will work closely with the culinary leadership to facilitate a seamless production program for all property outlets. 


Requested Tasks

  • Review banquet orders and menus daily 
  • Create and modify menus to meet and exceed client’s expectations 
  • Work closely with banquets culinary team to ensure effective efficiency and consistency  
  • Monitor food and labor costs
  • Oversee inventory needs  
  • Train culinary team members, establishing schedules and enforcing sanitation regulations and safety standards 
  • Train and mentor kitchen personnel on culinary techniques, food safety, and presentation standards
  • Help manage inventory and ordering of kitchen supplies, ensuring all necessary ingredients are on hand
  • Adhere to Makeready's Guiding Principles


Requested Capabilities:

  • Assist in menu planning, execution, and management of kitchen staff
  • Collaborate in the development and testing of new recipes, ensuring consistency and quality across all dishes
  • Ensure the kitchen operates in a timely way to meet quality standards
  • Oversee kitchen operations in the absence of the Chef de Cuisine, ensuring smooth workflow and efficiency
  • Monitor food preparation and presentation to ensure compliance with established standards
  • Solve any issues that arise and seize control of any problematic situation
  • Train and mentor kitchen personnel on culinary techniques, food safety, and presentation standards
  • Help manage inventory and ordering of kitchen supplies, ensuring all necessary ingredients are on hand
  • Adhere to Makeready's Guiding Principles
  • Additional duties and assignments as assigned


As part of the Makeready collection, we proudly offer a variety of thoughtful benefits and perks for eligible team members including accommodating PTO, medical/dental/vision benefits, 401k and a wide range of additional ancillary benefits. The health, happiness and well-being of our team is our top priority.

We take pride in our Guiding Principles to help define how we successfully work together. We follow them not out of duty but live by them instinctively.

Makeready LLC and its affiliated entities are proud to encourage and support an environment where everyone can be a successful team member as their true independent self. We are an equal opportunity workplace and employer that does not discriminate based on race, color, disability, gender/sex, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, veteran status, or any other protected status. We are committed to building a team and a workplace where we are all able to be successful based solely on our individual qualifications, experience, abilities and job performance.