SailFuture | St. Petersburg, FL

Found a culinary operation at scale.

True North Nutrition makes elevated school lunches, full-service catering, and premium food products for retail and wholesale. All profit is donated to a nonprofit private school to lower tuition and widen access. You’ll lead the whole operation: food, systems, staff, and growth.

The job at a glance

Salary
- $70,000 to $90,000 + performance incentives tied to growth and profitability
Scale
- About 400 school lunches a day across five schools to start, with a goal of over 1,000, plus catering and retail products
Reports to
- Head of Staff
You lead
- Culinary staff, interns, and externs
Benefits

$250/month toward health insurance, 401(k) with 6% match, 10 days PTO, paid holidays

What you’ll do

Run the kitchen

Lead every part of True North Nutrition’s culinary operation
Design and run an elevated school lunch program, starting at about 400 meals a day across five schools
Build production systems that hold quality at scale
Develop seasonal menus, standardized recipes, and production schedules
Keep the kitchen compliant with food safety, sanitation, licensing, health, National School Lunch Program, and DOE rules

Grow the business

Grow lunch volume from 400 to over 1,000 a day
Build a profitable catering operation for corporate, nonprofit, and community clients
Create and launch specialty food products for wholesale and retail
Find new revenue and efficiency, and align the kitchen with leadership’s long-term goals

Lead the team and the numbers

Recruit, train, and mentor culinary staff with a culture of accountability
Manage food cost, labor cost, inventory, purchasing, and vendors
Create real learning experiences for culinary interns and externs

What you bring

5+ years of progressive culinary leadership
Experience running high-volume production or commissary kitchens
Catering, food manufacturing, or multi-unit food service experience preferred
Budgeting, forecasting, and cost management skills
A record of building teams and developing leaders
ServSafe Manager Certification, or the ability to get it on hire
An entrepreneurial, “whatever it takes” mindset and a passion for business as a force for social impactWhy this role

Why this role

You’ll have real autonomy to build a culinary brand and new revenue, and the profit you generate goes to underprivileged students’ education.

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