Executive Chef – Culinary R&D; & New Concepts

Company: Tastemode India Pvt Ltd

Location: Agra, Uttar Pradesh

Experience: 8+ years preferred

Employment Type: Full-time | Senior Leadership Role

About the Role

TMI is looking for an experienced and highly creative Executive Chef – Culinary R&D; & New Concepts to lead our culinary innovation and new food concepts.

This is a strategic role for someone who can go beyond day-to-day kitchen operations—someone who understands product development, menu innovation, food costing, standardization, kitchen systems, and new-age café/restaurant concepts.

The selected candidate will work closely with the management to develop new dishes, menus, café concepts, and scalable food products for our existing and upcoming outlets.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead Culinary R&D; and New Product Development
- Create and launch innovative recent dishes, snacks, desserts, beverages and café products
- Develop menus for new cafés, restaurants and food concepts
- Improve and innovate existing products across our outlets
- Create standardized recipes, portion sizes, presentation and preparation methods
- Conduct food trials, tastings and product testing
- Develop accurate food costing, yield calculations and recipe cards
- Ensure products are commercially viable and scalable across multiple outlets
- Develop and implement Kitchen SOPs and quality standards
- Train chefs, kitchen teams and outlet staff on new products and processes
- Maintain consistency in taste, quality and presentation
- Research current food trends, customer preferences and emerging café concepts
- Work with the management on concept development,



menu engineering and product strategy
- Support the opening and culinary setup of new outlets
- Identify opportunities to improve food cost, wastage and kitchen efficiency

What We’re Looking For

We are looking for someone who is:
- Highly creative and passionate about food
- Strong in recipe development and culinary innovation
- Experienced in launching new menus/products
- Comfortable working in a multi-outlet environment
- Strong in food costing and commercial understanding
- Able to convert creative ideas into profitable, scalable products
- A good team leader and trainer
- Familiar with modern café, QSR, casual dining and contemporary food trends
- Entrepreneurial in mindset and willing to take ownership

Preferred Background

Candidates from premium restaurants, hotels, QSR chains, café chains, cloud kitchens or established food brands with robust R&D;/product-development experience will be preferred.

Experience in new restaurant/café launches and menu development will be a major advantage.

Compensation

₹50,000 – ₹1,25,000 per month, depending on experience and capabilities.

Additional performance incentives and long-term profit-sharing/partnership opportunities may be offered to the right candidate based on performance and contribution to new concepts.

Growth Opportunity

This is not just a conventional chef position.

For the right candidate, there is an opportunity to become a key culinary partner in developing and launching TMI’s upcoming food and café concepts, with potential for project-level profit sharing/partnership based on performance

Pay: From ₹50,000.00 per month

Work Location: In person

📌 Executive Chef culinary R&D & New Conecept Development (Agra)
🏢 TASTEMODE INDIA
📍 Agra