Operations Support Lead at Local Kitchens

Local Kitchens helps the best local restaurants expand to new cities with our network of micro food halls. We are helping the $900bn restaurant industry go digital while bringing high-quality food options to families in every neighborhood. Today, we are operating in the SF Bay Area and rapidly expanding throughout California in 2022.

Our team was on the founding team at DoorDash and we are well-capitalized by tier 1 venture capital investors and angels like David Novak (CEO/Founder of Yum Brands), Tony Xu (CEO of DoorDash), and Jack Dorsey (CEO of Square/Twitter). Read more about us in QSR Magazine, QSR Web, and in the SF Business Times.

We are looking for a remote contractor to support our Strategy and Operations team. Our team manages Purchasing at Local Kitchens, which involves the ordering of food supplies and management of food costs.

Responsibilities:

• • • Actively maintain our internal purchasing database and ensure accuracy of all data sources
    • Update naming, pricing, and size data for all database items
    • Onboard new brands and locations into our purchasing database
    • Be on-call to support purchasing requests from our kitchens and coordinate store transfers

Requirements:

• • • Excellent written and verbal communication – you know how to convey the proper professional tone
    • Attention to detail
    • Experience with Excel, Google Suite
    • Comfortable with data entry and managing multiple stakeholders
    • Ability to learn quickly – we are a fast moving company that’s constantly changing

Nice to Have:

• • • LOVE helping people
    • Respect – yourself, your teammates, your guests
    • Ownership – take pride in everything you do
    • On Time – ready for work, getting back to guests, being punctual is a sign of respect

Culture:

• • Guest love: Local Kitchens exists to make guests happy. We start with “what would the guest want?” and work backwards. Support Center works to serve our kitchen teams, so that they can take care of our guests.
  • First principles thinking: We keep asking “why” like a 4-year old and never accept the status quo. We are truth seekers. We reason from fundamental truths in order to invent new ways to delight guests.
  • Operate at the lowest level of detail: We solve problems at the lowest level of detail e.g. by going to the kitchen. We measure everything and win arguments with data. We don’t use sloppy thinking.
  • Relentless: We outwork everyone, it’s our most controllable competitive advantage. We don’t get knocked down when things are tough.
  • Drive for excellence: We are intrinsically motivated and strive to get 1% better every day.
  • No job beneath you: We do whatever is needed to help the team win. We don’t understand the words “that’s not my job”. We always wash the dishes.
  • Play with joy: We bring joy to work every day. We support each other with contagious energy and optimism. We choose to have fun even when it feels like a grind.

This is an opportunity of a lifetime! Local Food Group is being built by some of the best in the world including the first few employees at DoorDash and Momofuku. We are backed by some of the best investors in the world. We have set out to work as hard as humanly possible, to work as a team and to serve local communities with the best selection and the best employment opportunities. If you’re someone who is looking for a career defining opportunity, someone who is willing to grind it out day after day, someone who has enthusiasm for guests and partners – we want to hear from you.

For more insight about Local Kitchens, visit our website https://www.localkitchens.com/ and follow us on instagram @eat.local.kitchens.