Chef de Cuisine

Voted one of the Best Places to Work in the North Bay for the second consecutive year
, Graton Resort & Casino offers exciting career opportunities within multiple departments and its leaders support continual career development and advancement.

The Aya Chef de Cuisine serves as a key culinary leader for Graton Resort & Casino's premier Rooftop Restaurant, responsible for delivering an exceptional dining experience that reflects the venue's luxurious atmosphere. This role blends hands-on culinary expertise with strong operational execution, ensuring high-quality food preparation, consistency, and presentation in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.

The Aya Chef de Cuisine supports and executes the vision of the Rooftop Executive Chef by overseeing day-to-day kitchen operations, including staff coordination, recipe execution, inventory management, and cost control. This position upholds strict standards of safety and sanitation while fostering teamwork, creativity, and continuous improvement. Through leadership, accountability, and culinary excellence, the Chef de Cuisine helps drive the property's commitment to becoming Sonoma County's premier dining destination.

Requirements:

• Minimum of five (5) years of culinary experience in related fields.
• Restaurant Management Experience - At least two (2) years of experience in restaurant management in a similar cuisine and/or volume, with responsibility for profit and loss (P&L) management.
• Comprehensive Restaurant Operation Knowledge - Strong understanding of profit and loss statements, cost control, menu planning, budgeting, training, inventory control, and sanitation.
• Hands-On Culinary Expertise - Ability to work in all aspects of kitchen operations, including high volume production across breakfast, lunch, and dinner services. Proficiency in fine dining techniques, butchering, baking, soups, stocks, sauces, roasting, sautéing, broiling, grilling, and cold food production.