Joodooboo is a California Dooboo & Banchan Shop.
We are included among the Bay Area's Top 50 restaurants listed by SF Chronicle, and our chef is one of 10 national recipients of the Food & Wine Best New Chefs award in 2025.
We work with the best of local & seasonal produce from our favorite farms, and do our best to provide our community with warmth, good eats, nutrition, and jiggles.
Our cooking is intentional, precise, pleasure-driven, and delicious.
We've been growing steadily and we're looking to hire a sous chef for the following:
- Manage Banchan production in collaboration with our chef and operations manager.
- Be a caretaker & leader of the shop and our lovely crew.
- Help plan and execute shop specials.
- Manage food ordering & inventory, and rotate farmers market runs with our chef and operations manager.
- Be able to add to our ever-expanding Banchan repertoire, once learning the palate & methods of the shop.
We value:
- Character over talent (though talent is important)
- Curiosity over knowledge (though knowledge is important)
- Your particular weirdness (seriously- bring it)
- Winning in the the constant battle of organization vs chaos
- Dedication to doing good work and doing it with others (it's the through-line in our shop's crew)
- Love
Your qualifications:
- 5 years combined line-cook/leadership experience
- Some background/working knowledge of Korean food AND NorCal farms & produce
- Familiarity with our shop
- Having 2nd and 3rd gears and knowing when & how to use them
- Good teachability, and can teach others
- Can design/write/execute a prep list while adapting to changing conditions and priorities
- Can work well in collaboration with others, and also has the ability to execute production independently
- Values clear communication and understands its difficulties and challenges
The deets:
This position will be available beginning in January 2026- let's start a conversation!
- Starting salary $65-70k (depending on prior experience)
- Average 55 hours per week
- Paid time off in alignment with the shop's break schedule
- Dental benefits
For interested candidates, please respond to this post with a brief introduction and your resume.
Thanks!