Job Description

Taste Buds Kitchen | Bellevue, WA

Compensation: $25–$30/hour, depending on experience

Schedule: Part-time to start (20-25 hours/week), with potential for full-time growth

Taste Buds Kitchen Bellevue is looking for a dynamic, hands-on leader to help manage our growing culinary studio.

We offer cooking classes, birthday parties, school break camps, corporate team-building events, and private celebrations. We're seeking someone who combines strong kitchen operations experience with outstanding hospitality skills and a business-minded approach.

What You'll Do

• Run a safe, organized kitchen: Oversee food safety, sanitation, inventory, purchasing, equipment maintenance, and health inspection readiness.
• Manage purchasing and costs: Plan grocery shopping, track ingredient usage, minimize waste, manage vendors, and maintain food budgets.
• Lead and develop our team: Train culinary assistants and hosts, coordinate schedules, provide feedback, and ensure consistent performance.
• Deliver exceptional guest experiences: Welcome guests, oversee classes and events, resolve concerns, and create a warm, fun atmosphere.
• Keep events running smoothly: Coordinate preparation, staffing, setup, and cleanup so events run efficiently and on schedule.
• Think like a business owner: Monitor labor costs, improve processes, identify sales opportunities, and help grow a profitable business.
• Jump in wherever needed: Assist with culinary preparation, support classes, host events when trained, and help the team succeed.

Who You Are

• Have at least 2–3 years of food service, catering, hospitality, or kitchen operations experience, including leadership responsibilities.
• Understand food safety, sanitation standards, and commercial kitchen operations.
• Have experience managing inventory, purchasing, and food costs.
• Are exceptionally friendly, outgoing, organized, and dependable.
• Enjoy training and motivating others.
• Have strong business judgment and take initiative without needing constant direction.
• Are comfortable working with both children and adults.
• Can work evenings and weekends.
• Have a current food worker card and preferably a Certified Food Protection Manager credential, or are willing to obtain required credentials.

Why Join Us?

We're a new, growing business with an opportunity to help shape how our kitchen operates. This position offers meaningful responsibility, a collaborative environment, and the potential to grow into a full-time General Manager role.

Compensation: $25.00 - $30.00 per hour

About Us

Taste Buds Kitchen has taken the country by storm with a refreshingly simple concept. We provide culinary entertainment to kids, families and adults in a fun, beautiful and state-of-the art Kitchen Studio. Kids ages 2 to teen love our hands-on cooking classes, camps, birthday parties and field trips. Adults love our byob date night cooking classes, birthday parties, bachelorettes, showers and corporate events. Our innovative programs are as entertaining as they are educational. We always strive to engage and delight our guests.

Job Opportunities

We have incredible career opportunities in each of our growing Kitchen Studios nationwide, as well as our corporate office. Get involved in an exciting and growing company. We are always looking for dynamic talent to join our fun-loving and hard-working team! Perfect for culinary professionals, passionate foodies, teachers, managers, administrators, marketers and college and high school students alike.