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.