Marriott Austin South - Chef & B - Austin, TX

Austin Marriott South is a premier hotel located in the vibrant city of Austin, Texas, offering exceptional amenities designed to satisfy both business and leisure travelers. Situated conveniently near Austin-Bergstrom International Airport and close to downtown destinations, the hotel provides easy access to the city’s top attractions and business hubs. Each guest room and suite is equipped with plush bedding, high-speed internet, and flat-panel TVs with premium cable channels, ensuring comfort and connectivity. The hotel's Limestone Kitchen Restaurant & Bar serves guests daily for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, featuring a welcoming atmosphere to enjoy meals and drinks. Austin Marriott South also caters to various events, providing 18,626 square feet of flexible meeting space across 16 rooms, perfect for weddings, corporate gatherings, and social events backed by a professional planning team. As the Chef & B (Chef and Banquet) at Austin Marriott South, you will assume a critical leadership position directing and supervising the food preparation for all hotel food outlets. This role demands overseeing the highest levels of food handling, quality, and presentation while maintaining strict adherence to established operational standards. The Chef & B plays a vital role in supporting the hotel’s financial objectives by assisting daily operations within the Food and Beverage and Banquet departments. Reporting directly to the General Manager, this position requires executing administrative, executive, and professional tasks that utilize independent judgment and discretion regularly. In this senior role, you will be responsible for creating and planning menus for the restaurant, outlets, and catered events, maintaining food cost budgets, and minimizing waste. You will lead a team of cooks, scheduling appropriately and ensuring staff presentation meets professional standards. The role also involves frequent collaboration with other departments to facilitate convention and group activities and ensure flawless service delivery. Communicating updated financial data regularly to the General Manager, including budget and revenue growth strategies, is a key component of the position. Your oversight will extend to inspecting food displays, buffets, and stations to ensure cleanliness, safety, and creativity. The Chef & B must demonstrate excellent guest service skills, positively influencing customer interaction with a friendly and accommodating attitude. You will conduct pre-shift meetings to prepare your team for daily business and assist with recruiting, training, and scheduling to optimize departmental performance and maintain labor cost efficiency. Participation in monthly inventories and initiatives to reduce breakage and loss are expected. This role also includes implementing and following up on food and beverage promotional ideas to enhance guest appeal and departmental profitability. This position is exempt, requiring commitment beyond standard work hours to ensure all responsibilities are fulfilled efficiently and effectively. Austin Marriott South offers a competitive benefits package post the initial waiting period for full-time hires, including medical, dental, vision coverage, disability income, life insurance, paid time off, employee assistance, and a 401k retirement plan. Unique to this position is eligibility for Daily Pay, providing financial flexibility to employees. This robust benefits offering underscores the hotel’s dedication to employee wellbeing and satisfaction while fostering a positive workplace culture. Joining Austin Marriott South as Chef & B provides a rewarding opportunity to contribute to one of Austin’s most respected hospitality establishments, advancing your culinary leadership career in a dynamic and guest-focused environment.

• Have a minimum of 3 years of experience in a supervisory role in food and beverage department
• Have 5 or more years of progressive experience in hotel food and beverage experience or other successful F&B service industry
• Or possess a culinary degree with 3 or more years of progressive experience in hotel food and beverage experience or other successful F&B service industry
• Be incredibly friendly, customer centric, love to smile and radiate a positive and accommodating attitude while interacting with customers
• Create and plan all meals and menus for the restaurant(s), outlet(s) and catered events
• Expedite peak meal periods by maintaining a 'hands on' approach
• Work within monthly set food cost budget, adjust food requisitions and control waste
• Monitor food outlets, buffets, stations and food displays for creativity, quality, cleanliness and food safety