Chef De Cuisine Jobs

Chef de cuisine jobs require quite a bit of experience, training and talent; this is definitely not a position you can expect to hold straight out of culinary school . The chef de cuisine is a French term for the professional chef who is in charge of the kitchen, which in American English would translate to the executive chef or head chef. The chef des cuisine salaries range from $30,000 a year at a prepared foods company to $80,000 or more at a fine restaurant in a big city.

There are chef de cuisine jobs in all sorts of restaurants in every city, as well as in prepared foods and catering companies, hotels, resorts, cruise ships, retirement communities, government or corporate offices and other hospitality-related facilities.

Typically, the chef de cuisine is the one in charge who creates the menus and leads the team, but in a chain restaurant or hotel or cruise ship setting, there may be strict limitations as to what can be prepared and served. The most prestigious chef de cuisine jobs are in the restaurants that are owned or operated at least in part by the chef de cuisine because the chef will thus have complete control over their menu.

A chef de cuisine will typically have a sous chef working as a direct assistant who is considered to be the second in the chain of command. Beneath that are the chefs de partie, also known as station chefs or line cooks, who will be in charge of a specific area of the food production such as preparing the meats or chopping the vegetables. Then there are the expeditors who take orders from the dining room to relay to the kitchen and perhaps put finishing touches on the dishes.

Chef de cuisine salaries vary greatly depending on such factors as the prestige of the restaurant or facility, the city it is located in, the experience of the chef and many other factors, but it is a job with many rewards for those who enjoy using their creative talents in the kitchen.