Pastry Chef (Hospitality)

Location: Hard Rock Casino Cincinnati, United States

Company

Casino hospitality operation responsible for delivering high-quality food products and guest service.

What you will do

• Lead all pastry and bakery production, ensuring quality, consistency, recipe adherence, and strong presentation.
• Plan desserts, develop menus and seasonal offerings, test recipes, and respond to guest and market needs.
• Manage scheduling, ordering, inventory, food-cost controls, quality assurance, equipment checks, and monthly physical inventories.
• Hire, train, coach, mentor, and supervise pastry staff while fostering a professional kitchen culture.
• Coordinate with culinary, outlet, and sales teams to support business needs, dietary requirements, banquets, catering, and special events.
• Maintain organized production, storage, preparation, and presentation areas in line with company standards.

Requirements

• Culinary degree or equivalent professional pastry training preferred.
• 3–5 years of pastry or baking experience, including leadership experience.
• Advanced knowledge of chocolate work, sugar artistry, cake decorating, plated desserts, baking techniques, and food safety.
• Experience with food and labor cost management, inventory, purchasing, vendor relations, recipe development, production schedules, forecasting, and workload planning.
• Strong organizational, communication, leadership, problem-solving, and team-development skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience in a high-volume restaurant, hotel, resort, casino, banquet, catering, or special-event environment; ability to lift and carry products, ingredients, and equipment.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with a comprehensive benefits package.
• Benefits support health, future planning, and work-life balance; eligibility may vary by employment status.
• Flexible availability for weekends, holidays, and special events is required.
• ServSafe Certification or equivalent food safety certification is preferred.