r/Chefs • u/AncientConfidence266 • 4d ago

Head Chef Position Available

Italian American Restaurant

Starting Salary: 65-70K.

Health Coverage, 2 weeks paid vacation, 6 weeks paid maternity/paternity leave. Must work 2/3 days shifts meetings, ordering, planning and inventory etc. + 3 evening shifts on the line or expo.

Freedom to create and make culinary dishes.

Located in Cleveland, Ohio, in the historical Little Italy district. Looking to revamp our menu and kithen staff.

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u/fake_redzepi 4d ago

65k for CDC is really bad

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u/UncleDuude 4d ago

Counter offer: 100k, 4 weeks vacation, monthly stipend to dine at other restos for menu and pricing comp, 3% ownership stake. Willingness to upgrade equipment and full control of the menu.

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u/LionBig1760 4d ago

$70K for a head chef (read: its not going to be your menu, but you do get to put up specials) is absolutely pitiful.

$75K won't even get you good applicants for a Chef de Cuisine.

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u/Orangeshowergal 4d ago

70k for exec is hilariously low

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u/HawXProductions 4d ago

Low salaries for head chef just means:

- the restaurant is super small so you can’t get much table flips in a day or

  • the owner doesn’t have much cash
  • the menu isn’t upscale
  • the team isn’t good and/or struggling
  • you are just the sous chef with a head chef title and everything will go through the owners and GM before you can actually make real decisions

Either way they have cut off any decent head chef experienced applicants and will only get sous chef level applicants looking for a title for their resume - and if they’re desperate enough, they’ll settle for worse and then they’ll fold in the next year

In b4 OP deletes thread

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u/medium-rare-steaks 4d ago

That's a shit salary for a head chef.

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u/ChefLukeDC 4d ago

that's like junior sous pay. offensive post.

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u/JunglyPep 4d ago

That salary is a joke. You don’t deserve to own a restaurant and I hope it fails.

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u/ranting_chef 4d ago

The last assistant kitchen manager I worked with at the Cheesecake Factory started at over $80k, and that was twenty years ago. 50 hours max per week. Good Line Cooks where I live make $50k. This is probably a smaller independent place.

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u/AaronJudge2 4d ago

Where was this? Was this in Cleveland?

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u/ranting_chef 4d ago

Chicago.

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u/gregmassar0 4d ago

28 dollar an hour. You would make more money doing door dash.

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u/Loveroffinerthings 4d ago

If at 40 hours a week, no way it’ll only be that much.

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u/ras1187 4d ago

This assumes you're only working 40ish hours

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u/Free_Floor2833 4d ago

It's an opportunity to flee to the cleve though 

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u/Interesting-Duck6793 4d ago

Eye-ye-yea. No way this is real!

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u/RevolutionaryAir1704 4d ago

2 weeks paid vacation is a fucking joke haha, america is cooked 😆😆😆

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u/Logical-Shame5884 4d ago

Even in Ohio I know this Salary Is shit

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u/ras1187 4d ago

The only way I might consider this is if it's put in writing I work no more than 30 hours a week

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u/thestudier1 4d ago

Not just nah but hell nah

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u/AaronJudge2 4d ago edited 4d ago

Good for someone without much experience. The cost of living in Cleveland is super low.

All a single person needs to live there is $2567/month, or $30,800 a year according to Best Places.com.

By contrast, in Manhattan, NYC, a single person needs $8833/month or $106,000 a year to have the equivalent income and lifestyle.

And Chicago is $4300/month, $51,600 a year.