Sous Chef

About WZN Healthy Food

WZN Healthy Food is a restaurant located in Doha, Qatar, focused on delivering nutritious, flavorful meals tailored to support various wellness goals. The restaurant offers monthly subscription meal plans catering to individuals and corporate clients, featuring customized menus aimed at weight loss, muscle gain, and maintaining a balanced lifestyle. Customers benefit from fast delivery and continuous nutritional guidance to achieve measurable health improvements. Fresh, calorie-monitored ingredients ensure dishes are both healthy and delicious.

Role Summary

The Sous Chef will work full-time on-site in Doha, responsible for developing and managing diet-conscious menus across multiple kitchen departments, including hot and cold kitchens, pastry, bakery, beverages, snacks, and desserts. Monthly menus are created considering nutritional needs, seasonal availability, and business goals. The role includes standardizing recipes, overseeing costs, supervising kitchen operations, training staff in healthy cooking methods and food safety, collaborating with the Dietitian, and contributing to new menu items and continuous enhancement.

Key Responsibilities

• Create healthy, diet-appropriate menus for hot kitchen, cold kitchen, pastry, bakery, beverages, snacks, and desserts.
• Develop monthly menu plans aligned with nutritional requirements, seasonal produce, and company targets.
• Guarantee all dishes comply with standards for flavor, quality, presentation, portions, and nutrition.
• Standardize recipes and monitor food costs, ingredient use, and yield efficiency.
• Manage daily kitchen functions and assist the Executive Chef in maintaining production efficiency.
• Train and mentor kitchen staff on nutritious cooking methods, hygiene, and standard operating procedures.
• Partner with the Dietitian to ensure all meals meet nutritional guidelines and customer needs.
• Oversee food quality, cleanliness, and adherence to food safety regulations and policies.
• Contribute to development of new menu items and ongoing recipe improvements.

Requirements

• Professional culinary education or equivalent experience, preferably with specialization in healthy or diet-specific cuisine.
• Proven expertise in food preparation, cooking techniques, presentation, portion control, and nutritional balance.
• Knowledge and application of food safety standards, hygiene, and HACCP best practices with a track record of maintaining kitchen compliance.
• Experience leading kitchen staff, managing shift schedules, and ensuring efficient operations in a fast-paced environment.
• Familiarity with calorie-counted meal plans and collaboration with dietitians or nutrition experts.
• Strong communication skills, reliability, and flexibility to work during weekends and peak periods.
• Competence in inventory management, basic purchasing, and waste minimization strategies.
• Experience working in Doha or the Gulf region preferred; fluency in English is required, with Arabic language skills considered an advantage.