



Your exciting, culinary journey as a sous chef begins with a completed cooking apprenticeship. If you are interested, you could also be responsible for the training and further education of the kitchen staff- when it comes to personnel management, you and your chef are in authority for duty-rosters and the optimization of multitudinous working processes. In addition, you will also be introduced to for example planning the staff, purchasing and orders – you will be responsible for an unobstructed process in the kitchen as well as the organizational aspects.Īs a sous chef, you often work as a link between the chef and the kitchen, so you will have to deal with several administrative tasks. In addition, you have to create a plan in terms of food presentation, because most of the guests are expecting a considerable menu. You are for example responsible for the coordination of different positions within the kitchen. In general, a Sous chef de Cuisine (French for “under-chef of the kitchen”) is the deputy chef and responsible for all matters in a kitchen during the chef’s absence.Īs a sous chef you are working closely with the chef and that is why you have an equally prominent role in the kitchen: You directly represent the chef when he is not present.
