About us: Tacofino began as a food truck in the back of a surf shop in beautiful Tofino, British Columbia. We balanced surfing with creating world-inspired food with the best possible ingredients and serving it with love. We kept the spirit of where we came from alive and have since grown into a unique restaurant brand with locations across the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island and continue to grow today.
Our values:
Creative quality food - We create original, quality offerings with unique flavours
Community - We partner with our communities to support impactful positive change
Inspired hospitality - We want to provide memorable experiences that cannot be found anywhere else
Our Team - We achieve our goals by embracing people for their individuality and supporting their personal and professional growth
Setting - We strive to make positive sustainable decisions whenever possible
About you: You are passionate about food preparation and management. You want to play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth operation and success of our kitchen.
What we offer:
Positive workplace culture
Work/life balance
Eligibility for extended health, vision, and dental benefits
Eligibility for maternity/parental leave top-up program
Eligibility for discretionary incentive program
Eligibility for Employee and Family Assistance Program
Opportunities for continued growth
You will be: People Supporting the Restaurant Operator in providing leadership to a team to ensure production goals are met and managing day-to-day kitchen operations
Maintaining strong and positive communication with team members
Being involved in the training of team members and offering continued growth opportunities for improvement
Ensuring team members are following appropriate policy and procedure and upholding positive workplace values




Ensuring high-quality and consistency of food
Work toward efficiency and managing location costs, including food, beverage, and labour
Providing support with administrative tasks
Helping support daily prep, reviewing inventories, and ordering to support product on hand while minimizing food waste
Ensuring safe food handling procedures are being followed
Ensuring compliance to Tacofino’s health and safety standards, Health and Safety Plan, and HACCP
Ensuring proper storage procedures are being followed
Other duties as required
You have: 1 year experience of providing supervision and direction within a fast paced culinary environment
Passion in creating great guest experiences in both food and hospitality
Providing support in onboarding, ongoing training and development, and increasing product knowledge within the team
Experience in providing feedback, training, and support to team members
Experience in positive and clear communication and encouraging feedback and questions from your team
Values diversity, equity and inclusion by learning and adapting to individual learning and communication needs, alignment to goals, and contributing to a positive workplace experience
A demonstrated passion for soulful food, people, and being a part of the restaurant industry
Eagerness to gradually take on more responsibility and for continued growth
Experience with an inventory management system ie optimum control or Market Man
Strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to prioritize
We believe in creating an inclusive environment and welcome all qualified applicants to apply.
At Tacofino, we believe our people are what makes us great. If you are a positive person with a strong work ethic that is looking to come to join a fun workplace culture, then we invite you to apply for this role by submitting a cover letter and resume.

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