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The Executive Chef supervises the daily operations of restaurant and hotel kitchens. Their role is training and overseeing kitchen staff, and ensuring a high-quality, cost-effective product. Their responsibilities are ensuring the promptness, freshness and quality of dishes, coordinating the cook's tasks, implementing hygiene policies, examining equipment for cleanliness, planning menus, selecting the plate presentation, reviewing staffing levels to meet service, hiring and training kitchen staff, taking stock of food and equipment supplies, obtaining feedback on food and service quality, and handling customer problems and complaints.

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Steps to take to start your career as an Executive Chef and other jobs like it

  • There are a variety of different training programs. The shortest are certificate programs completed less than a year, next are associate degrees in culinary arts and the longest being 4 year bachelor programs. All of these programs require a GED or high school diploma.
  • Everyone knows how to eat but building a career in cooking or baking takes practice. Whether you have formal training or not, practicing on your own, working in a restaurant and or working under an experienced chef is important.
  • You likely will need to work your way through many different roles in the kitchen to gain the experience needed to advance to ones that allow you to use your creativity.
  • There are many different environments for chef’s to work in, hotels, restaurants, catering, cafe’s. There are different skills to be learned from each, some of which extend beyond cooking to the business side of the trade.
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Avg Pay: $80K
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Avg Pay: $65K
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Education you need to become an Executive Chef

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  • Associate Degree in Culinary Arts
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    Avg. Duration:20 monthsAvg. Fees:$12,666Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
  • Bachelor of Arts (b.a.) in Physics Education
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    Avg. Duration:48 monthsAvg. Fees:$28,739Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
  • Bachelor of Arts (b.a.) in General Studies
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    Avg. Duration:45 monthsAvg. Fees:$23,007Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
  • Bachelor of Science (b.sc.) in Culinary Arts Management
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    Avg. Duration:48 monthsAvg. Fees:$19,200Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
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Annual Pay Estimate for Executive Chef and Other Important Info

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4.8 years
$73K
The average years of experience in the workforce prior to having this role
3.75 years
Senior
The average number of roles it took our users to get to this one
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Jobs to start your career in becoming an Executive Chef

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