Job Overview

Rough & Tumble has a rare opportunity to join our kitchen leadership team! Now hiring an awesome, experienced sous chef to join our stellar squad. Top candidates will be kind, dependable, detail-oriented, enjoy cooking in a team-based inclusive work environment, and take pride in creating consistently delicious, craveable food!
Voted Best Sports Bar & Best New Restaurant by Seattle Met and Seattle Times/Best in the PNW (among others) and recently highlighted by Vogue and Eater National, R&T is a beloved home for sports fans, community, and families alike.
What you bring:

  • Experience and passion for executing consistently stellar food in a high-volume, fast-paced environment, sports-service experience a plus
  • A collaborative, respectful, kind work style and excellent communication skills
  • Strong skills in brunch, lunch, and dinner execution, including across stations and roles; everyone on our kitchen team (and some of our FOH) works across each role and it s something we foster and love
  • Creative and passionate about developing new, seasonal recipes with team
  • Desire to learn, grow, and lead with goals for growth and increasingly responsible management responsibilities over time
  • Attentive to detail and management of consistent team production of recipes, portions, and plating styles
  • Experience managing inventory, pars, and ordering as well as prep lists and event planning
  • Skilled at developing and implementing processes that create a cohesive, clean, well-organized, and compliant kitchen
  • Experience leading and mentoring team members
  • Minimum 3 years experience in a high-paced kitchen, on-the-line environments with increasing levels of responsibility
  • Background using software and tools for smart kitchen management
  • Weekend and evening availability required
  • Bilingual Spanish-English skills a huge plus
  • Ability to lift up to 40 pounds and spend a full shift standing or walking
  • Valid Washington Food Handler's permit

What We Offer

  • Competitive base salary plus tip pool equal to approx. $55,000-$62,000 per year (DOE)
  • Shift meals, off-shift discounts for food and beverage
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits for eligible full time
  • PTO plus sick/safe pay and leave
  • Employee discounts
  • Woman-owned, equity-and-equality-focused
  • Fun, kind, generous team and a positive work environment with opportunities for advancement and growth

About Us
Rough & Tumble is Seattle's first-ever pub to prioritize women's sports on our screens and sound. We are 100% woman-owned and are a place that is welcoming, fun, and enjoyable for all all fans of all sports. We're investing in women athletes/sports and we're passionate sports fans, period. We show the Seattle Reign, Seattle Storm, and UW women's sports just as we show the Kraken, Mariners, Sounders, Seahawks, and everything in between. Beyond just games, we are a welcoming and inclusive space for stellar brunches, late night dining, and have the best terrace/deck in all of Ballard, if we do say so ourselves.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Rough & Tumble embraces diversity and equal opportunity actively and openly. Rough & Tumble is itself a place of comfort, acceptance, fun, and, most importantly, belonging. Rough & Tumble prohibits unlawful harassment of its employees, applicants, or independent contractors in any form. We make our employment decisions on a non-discriminatory basis, and without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or identity, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law.

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