Pastry Chef Job at George's, Birmingham, AL

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  • George's
  • Birmingham, AL

Job Description

🍰 Pastry & Dessert Chef - George's

Role Overview

The Pastry and Dessert Chef is responsible for the precise execution and flawless presentation of all desserts, pastries, and house-made ice creams served in the restaurant. This role requires technical skill in baking and confectionery, meticulous attention to detail, and a focus on consistency and speed to ensure a spectacular conclusion to the guest's dining experience. The ideal candidate blends technical proficiency with artistic flair.

🍓 Key Responsibilities

- Dessert Execution: Prepare and plate all dessert menu items, ensuring every component—from custards and cakes to sauces and tuiles—is executed to the chef's exact specifications and highest quality standards.

- A La Minute Plating: Manage the dessert station during service, assembling and garnishing complex plates quickly and accurately, often working under tight timing constraints.

- Component Preparation: Execute detailed prep work, including baking bases, preparing fillings, making sauces, churning ice creams, and crafting decorative elements (e.g., garnishes, chocolate work) for plating.

- Recipe & Consistency: Adhere strictly to standardized recipes and portion controls to ensure consistency in both flavor profile and visual presentation for every dessert served.

- Quality Control: Taste and inspect all prepared components daily, ensuring ingredients are fresh, textures are correct, and final desserts are visually perfect.

- Station Maintenance: Maintain an exceptionally clean, organized, and sanitary work area, including all mixers, specialized tools, and refrigeration units, following all food safety guidelines rigorously.

- Inventory & Ordering: Assist in managing the inventory of specialized pastry ingredients, communicating low stock levels, and ensuring proper rotation of all perishable items. 

- 🎂 Required Qualifications

- Experience: Minimum of 2 years of experience as a Pastry Cook, Dessert Cook, or Baker in a high-volume, fine dining, or upscale hotel/restaurant environment.

- Technical Skills: Proven expertise in fundamental baking and pastry techniques, including tempering, lamination, mousse/custard making, and decorating.

- Aesthetic Aptitude: Exceptional manual dexterity and an eye for artistic, refined presentation suitable for a luxury establishment.

- Organization: High level of organizational skill required to manage a large inventory of specialized components and execute multiple recipes simultaneously.

- Punctuality: Highly reliable, understanding that precise timing is essential for quality control in baking. 

- 🌟 Desired Attributes

- Culinary Education: Formal training or certification from an accredited culinary or pastry arts program.

- Creativity: Ability to contribute to the development of seasonal dessert specials is a strong plus.

- Precision Focus: A personality driven by precision, exact measurements, and meticulous attention to detail.

- Endurance: Ability to stand for long periods and work efficiently in a fast-paced environment. Are you ready to create unforgettable sweet endings for our guests? 

Job Tags

Full time, Seasonal work,

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