Are you a mid-career back of house professional looking for a change of pace? Are you a talented, dedicated cook who is interested in an intellectually stimulating and challenging role? The Culinary Edge, a premier innovation agency, is hiring our next Culinary Intern. If you’re interested in using and growing a different skill set, please respond to this ad with a current resume and cover letter.
Position Overview
Working beside professional chefs and project managers, the culinary intern is an integral member of the kitchen team and will gain hands-on experience in menu development, recipe formulation, facilities management, and the day-to-day operations of an active test kitchen. The intern’s time is split between hands-on kitchen work, procurement, and culinary-related administrative tasks. They assist the kitchen team by prepping ingredients, maintaining the kitchen space, equipment and supplies, and entering recipes into our recipe database. They also contribute to the creation of kitchen/ restaurant operations materials and creative culinary development and conduct research on ingredients, packaging, vendors, and concepts.
Your Experience And Skills
- Ability to make excellent food, even with less-than-ideal or limited ingredients
- Equally confident and comfortable creating food in a test kitchen, a fine dining restaurant or in a quick service facility
- You understand and can manage recipe documentation
- Strong written and verbal communication, professional demeanor
- Able to manage heavy workload, prioritize well and meet deadlines
- Resourceful, flexible and able to creatively solve problems
- Proactive and reliable to fellow team members and managers
- Impeccable attention to detail and minimal errors
- Passionate about food, cooking, trends and dining
- You are a team player, flexible, easy-going and you have a sense of humor
Sample Responsibilities Of The Culinary Intern
- Support chefs and project team on client projects
- Develop recipes and menu items independently for client projects. Includes food, ingredient and menu preparation
- Accurately formulate, test and document all recipes and formulations using standard forms and procedures, including entering recipe data in recipe database
- Responsible for managing your schedule, and knowing the kitchen production and client deliverable schedule
- Shop and run errands for ingredients, supplies and materials
- Shipping and receiving ingredients
- Assist in the creation of kitchen operations materials for client projects
- Research ingredients, vendors, equipment, packaging, and restaurant and culinary concepts
- Maintain cleanliness of workstation, storage area and kitchen
Table Stakes
- Culinary school; university degree a plus
- Minimum of 3 to 5 years experience in a professional restaurant kitchen is a must: Everyone on the kitchen team must possess a deep understanding of the operational and business challenges that our clients encounter in order to successfully contribute to the work that we do.
- A strong working knowledge of both Microsoft and Mac office suites
- Ability to work on-site at our San Francisco test kitchen, located in the SOMA neighborhood
Hours
Hours may be different every week and are flexible, but an average week may be five days a week, Monday through Friday from 8am to 6pm for a total of approximately 35 hours per week.
Internship Term
Six (6) months
Earliest Start Date
October 15, 2018
Compensation
Hourly
About Us
The Culinary Edge is a culinary consulting firm serving the entire spectrum of the food-service industry, from start-up entrepreneurs to multi-unit national chains. The Culinary Edge was established in 2002 as the premier innovation agency creating and launching distinctive food and beverage experiences. Our mission is to create food with purpose by bringing brands, products and experiences to life that benefit both businesses and consumers.
