Director of Dining Services

• Follow Company Dining Policy and Procedures and while ensuring that all department personnel are compliant as well. 

• Responsible for the purchasing of all dining food and nonfood items and ensure all purchases for the department achieve 95% DSSI ordering compliance. 

• Balance and maintain budgets for raw food and supplies.

• Utilize company standard recipes when completing food production for meals.

• Ensure that food is served at proper temperature and in proper portion sizes to ensure food safety and palatability according to our food temperature policy.  

• Ensure that residents’ Prescribed Diets are offered when applicable.

• Drive high satisfaction by offering our residents choice, dignity and independence in dining according to our hospitality and customer service policy. 

• Ensure operating and cleaning instructions/procedures are developed and implemented for the department. 

• Perform Pre-meal Dining Stand-Up with service staff to review daily menu details.

• Know and adhere to all company and the local, state, and county health departments regulations and acts as the community’s dietary representative for any health department or other required inspections; assure compliance, follow-up to assure any deficiencies are immediately corrected.

• Ensure all dining areas are clean and safely operating, completes monthly Self Sanitation audit according to the sanitation audit tool and operation and sanitation policies.  

• Interview, manage, train, hire, discipline, and terminate all dining staff personnel as needed.

• Oversee the scheduling of all food service personnel to maintain compliance with labor budget.