_{30th September, 2026}

Location: Huntington Beach, CA.
Salary: $90,000–$115,000.
Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, PTO.
  
High-Volume Multi-Unit Restaurant Group seeks a Culinary Development Manager to lead hands-on R&D and scalable menu innovation.
  
Qualifications:

• 4–5+ years of corporate culinary R&D, menu development, product development, or culinary innovation experience.
• Proven ability to take concepts from research and recipe development through prototyping, presentation, and implementation support.
• Multi-unit restaurant experience with strong savory culinary skills, recipe standardization, food costing, and scalable execution.
• Strong career stability preferred, with the ability to work independently approximately four days per week onsite.

Responsibilities:

• Develop new menu items, seasonal offerings, and LTOs from initial brief through research, prototyping, refinement, and presentation.
• Create and standardize recipes within ingredient, equipment, food cost, labor, and operational parameters for high-volume execution.
• Partner with Marketing, Supply Chain, Operations, and culinary leadership throughout the development and implementation process.
• Research culinary trends, present concepts to leadership, and support successful systemwide menu rollouts.

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