Description

Situated in Downtown’s Second Street District, Austin Proper Hotel & Residences is the newest luxury lifestyle hotel in Austin, just steps from Lady Bird Lake, the legendary Austin City Limits music venue and nearby boutiques. With inspiring interiors by Kelly Wearstler and culinary offerings in collaboration with MML Hospitality, Austin Proper offers 238 rooms and suites, a dedicated spa and fitness center, and 9,500 square feet of meeting and event spaces, including a rooftop pool deck offering small-batch tequilas and majestic lake views. Anything less just wouldn’t be Proper.

The Peacock Mediterranean Grill is Austin Proper Hotel & Residences ground floor restaurant that includes the Peacock Lounge. The restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, dinner, and in-room dining for our guests and residences. The menu is inspired by Mediterranean cuisine with food that is colorful, loosely plated, healthy, and wholesome and geared towards sharing.

Adjacent to the hotel lobby, the Peacock Lounge has a sprawling bar that provides a full dining experience throughout the indoor and outdoor lounge areas. This beautiful dining experience has overlook views of Shoal Creek that our guests can enjoy while on the patio space and the private dining room balcony. 

Job Overview

The Sous Chef – Peacock Mediterranean Grill 

Duties/Responsibilities 

• Ensuring compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. 
  
• Performing all duties of kitchen managers and colleagues as necessary. 
  
• Training colleagues in safety procedures. 
  
• Assisting in kitchen shift operations and ensuring compliance with all Food & Beverage policies, standards, and procedures. 
  
• Assisting with day-to-day kitchen shift and restaurant operations; managing restaurant kitchen colleagues ensuring compliance with all Food & Beverage policies, daily standards, and procedures. 
  
• Maintaining food preparation, handling, and correct storage standards. 
  
• Recognizing superior quality products, presentations, and flavors. 
  
• Planning and managing food quantities and plating requirements for the restaurant. 
  
• Communicating production needs to key personnel. 
  
• Assisting in developing daily and seasonal menu items for the restaurant. 
  
• Estimating daily restaurant production needs. 
  
• Preparing and cooking foods of all types, either on a regular basis or for special guests and functions.                                                                   
  
• Checking the quality of raw and cooked food, ensuring handling and right temperature of all food products. 
  
• Determining how food should be presented and creating decorative food displays.       
  
• Advocating sound financial and business decision making; demonstrating honesty and integrity; leading by example. 
  
• Leading shift teams while personally preparing food items and executing requests based on required specifications. 
  
• Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members. 
  
• Serving as a role model to demonstrate appropriate behaviors. 
  
• Ensuring and maintaining the productivity level of colleagues. 
  
• Ensuring colleagues are cross trained to support successful daily operations. 
  
• Ensuring colleagues understand expectations and parameters. 
  
• Setting and supporting achievement of kitchen goals including performance goals, budget goals, team goals, etc. 
  
• Understanding the impact of kitchen operation on the overall property financial goals and objectives and managing to achieve or exceed budgeted goals. 
  
• Effectively investigating, reporting, and following up on colleague accidents. 
  
• Knowing and implementing company safety standards.       
  
• Providing services that are above and beyond for guest satisfaction and retention. 
  
• Improving service by communicating and assisting colleagues by providing guidance, feedback, individual coaching, and progressive discipline when needed. 
  
• Emphasizing guest satisfaction during all departmental meetings and focus on continuous improvement. 
  
• Empowering colleagues to provide excellent guest experiences. 
  
• Handling guest problems and complaints. 
  
• Participating in training restaurant colleagues on menu items including ingredients, preparation methods, and unique tastes. 
  
• Participating in the colleague performance appraisal process, providing feedback as needed. 
  
• Using all available on the job training tools for colleagues. 
  
• Assisting as needed with the interviewing and hiring of potential colleagues with appropriate skills. 
  
• Attending and participating in all pertinent meetings. 
  

 Required Skills/Abilities:

• Flawless guest experience 
  
• Knowledge of various, cooking methods, ingredients, and procedures
  
• Management experience and skills
  
• Familiarity with industry’s best practices
  
• Leadership
  
• Creativity 
  
• Hand-eye coordination
  
• Efficient time-management skills
  
• Effective decision making
  
• Handles pressure
  
• Ability to deal with uncertainty
  

Education and Qualifications

• Minimum of 4+ Years Experience
• High school diploma or equivalent
  
• Culinary degree is preferred
  
• Formal culinary training is preferred

Company Overview
Proper Hospitality is made up of a diverse group of passionate individuals who share a common love for hotels and the art of hospitality. Our philosophy is simple: There is a right way to do things, and anything less just isn’t proper. We are seeking out the “best of the best” from inside and outside of the industry to work alongside us as we grow a new kind of lifestyle Hospitality Company inspired by a centuries-old tradition. The work is challenging, fast-paced, and rewarding above all. 

Proper Hospitality provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, genetics, or any other federal/state protected category. 

Proper Hospitality will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local Fair Chance Hiring Ordinances. 

Description

Situated in Downtown’s Second Street District, Austin Proper Hotel & Residences is the newest luxury lifestyle hotel in Austin, just steps from Lady Bird Lake, the legendary Austin City Limits music venue and nearby boutiques. With inspiring interiors by Kelly Wearstler and culinary offerings in collaboration with MML Hospitality, Austin Proper offers 238 rooms and suites, a dedicated spa and fitness center, and 9,500 square feet of meeting and event spaces, including a rooftop pool deck offering small-batch tequilas and majestic lake views. Anything less just wouldn’t be Proper.

The Peacock Mediterranean Grill is Austin Proper Hotel & Residences ground floor restaurant that includes the Peacock Lounge. The restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, dinner, and in-room dining for our guests and residences. The menu is inspired by Mediterranean cuisine with food that is colorful, loosely plated, healthy, and wholesome and geared towards sharing.

Adjacent to the hotel lobby, the Peacock Lounge has a sprawling bar that provides a full dining experience throughout the indoor and outdoor lounge areas. This beautiful dining experience has overlook views of Shoal Creek that our guests can enjoy while on the patio space and the private dining room balcony. 

Job Overview

The Sous Chef – Peacock Mediterranean Grill 

Duties/Responsibilities 

• Ensuring compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. 
  
• Performing all duties of kitchen managers and colleagues as necessary. 
  
• Training colleagues in safety procedures. 
  
• Assisting in kitchen shift operations and ensuring compliance with all Food & Beverage policies, standards, and procedures. 
  
• Assisting with day-to-day kitchen shift and restaurant operations; managing restaurant kitchen colleagues ensuring compliance with all Food & Beverage policies, daily standards, and procedures. 
  
• Maintaining food preparation, handling, and correct storage standards. 
  
• Recognizing superior quality products, presentations, and flavors. 
  
• Planning and managing food quantities and plating requirements for the restaurant. 
  
• Communicating production needs to key personnel. 
  
• Assisting in developing daily and seasonal menu items for the restaurant. 
  
• Estimating daily restaurant production needs. 
  
• Preparing and cooking foods of all types, either on a regular basis or for special guests and functions.                                                                   
  
• Checking the quality of raw and cooked food, ensuring handling and right temperature of all food products. 
  
• Determining how food should be presented and creating decorative food displays.       
  
• Advocating sound financial and business decision making; demonstrating honesty and integrity; leading by example. 
  
• Leading shift teams while personally preparing food items and executing requests based on required specifications. 
  
• Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members. 
  
• Serving as a role model to demonstrate appropriate behaviors. 
  
• Ensuring and maintaining the productivity level of colleagues. 
  
• Ensuring colleagues are cross trained to support successful daily operations. 
  
• Ensuring colleagues understand expectations and parameters. 
  
• Setting and supporting achievement of kitchen goals including performance goals, budget goals, team goals, etc. 
  
• Understanding the impact of kitchen operation on the overall property financial goals and objectives and managing to achieve or exceed budgeted goals. 
  
• Effectively investigating, reporting, and following up on colleague accidents. 
  
• Knowing and implementing company safety standards.       
  
• Providing services that are above and beyond for guest satisfaction and retention. 
  
• Improving service by communicating and assisting colleagues by providing guidance, feedback, individual coaching, and progressive discipline when needed. 
  
• Emphasizing guest satisfaction during all departmental meetings and focus on continuous improvement. 
  
• Empowering colleagues to provide excellent guest experiences. 
  
• Handling guest problems and complaints. 
  
• Participating in training restaurant colleagues on menu items including ingredients, preparation methods, and unique tastes. 
  
• Participating in the colleague performance appraisal process, providing feedback as needed. 
  
• Using all available on the job training tools for colleagues. 
  
• Assisting as needed with the interviewing and hiring of potential colleagues with appropriate skills. 
  
• Attending and participating in all pertinent meetings. 
  

 Required Skills/Abilities:

• Flawless guest experience 
  
• Knowledge of various, cooking methods, ingredients, and procedures
  
• Management experience and skills
  
• Familiarity with industry’s best practices
  
• Leadership
  
• Creativity 
  
• Hand-eye coordination
  
• Efficient time-management skills
  
• Effective decision making
  
• Handles pressure
  
• Ability to deal with uncertainty
  

Education and Qualifications

• Minimum of 4+ Years Experience
• High school diploma or equivalent
  
• Culinary degree is preferred
  
• Formal culinary training is preferred

Company Overview
Proper Hospitality is made up of a diverse group of passionate individuals who share a common love for hotels and the art of hospitality. Our philosophy is simple: There is a right way to do things, and anything less just isn’t proper. We are seeking out the “best of the best” from inside and outside of the industry to work alongside us as we grow a new kind of lifestyle Hospitality Company inspired by a centuries-old tradition. The work is challenging, fast-paced, and rewarding above all. 

Proper Hospitality provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, genetics, or any other federal/state protected category. 

Proper Hospitality will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local Fair Chance Hiring Ordinances.