Executive Chef

This is a Full Time Job

Overview

The Executive Chef leads all culinary operations at the stadium, delivering high-quality food service for players, staff, and guests. This role combines leadership, creativity, and sports nutrition expertise to support athletic performance and elevate the fan experience. The Executive Chef collaborates with partners, designs innovative menus, manages food and labor costs, oversees inventory and ordering, and builds a high-performing kitchen team committed to excellence.

Core duties for this role include, but are not limited to:
• Oversee daily operations of the kitchen and venue
• Lead and develop new menu items based off culinary knowledge and cuisine trends
• Oversee food preparation and presentation for game days, special events, and VIP experiences
• Ensure high standards for food quality, presentation, and safety
• Creatively develop event-based menus ensuring customers' requests and accommodations are met
• Hire, train, schedule, and supervise the culinary team
• Maintain kitchen cleanliness and compliance with health and safety regulations
• Ensure consistent food quality and presentation across all service points
• Monitor food and labor costs to align with budget goals
• Ensure monthly inventory takes place along with ordering product for upcoming events
• Partner with operations teams to support event execution

The ideal candidate will have a Culinary degree from four-year college or university; and five or more years of progressive culinary leadership experience in high volume hospitality environments; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 50 pounds. The employee must be able to run for short periods of time. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision and ability to adjust focus.

Work Hours

Business hours are Monday – Friday 9:00am – 5:00 pm, however, additional hours will be required on weekends, evenings and some holidays. Must work all home games.