San Diego · Food Industry Job Board · Est. 2021

SAN DIEGO FOOD JOBS

The job board built for the line cooks, baristas, sommeliers, and shift leads running San Diego's kitchens. Real employers. Posted wages. No recruiter spam, ever.

342 active openings 187 hiring employers Updated daily, 6am PST
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Open Roles Today
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SD Neighborhoods

Open roles, posted this week, wages visible from the first click.

Eight verticals. One city. Every job within a 25-mile radius of downtown.

Three steps. No account required to browse.

We strip out everything that slows down the moment a cook sees a wage they like and wants to talk to the chef. No middlemen. No resume uploads just to see a phone number.

01 / Search

Filter by neighborhood, wage, and shift.

Wages are mandatory on every post — if an employer won't commit to a number, the job doesn't go live. Filter by line cook vs. sous, day vs. night, hourly vs. salary, distance from your block.

02 / Apply direct

Message the hiring manager, not a recruiter.

Every listing shows the name of the person doing the hiring — usually the chef de cuisine or GM. You write them a paragraph, attach a resume if you want, and they reply in their own words. No third-party screening calls.

03 / Get hired

Median time-to-hire: 6 days.

Most candidates hear back within 48 hours. We follow up with both sides at day 3 and day 14 to make sure the trail didn't go cold. If it did, we re-surface the role to fresh candidates automatically.

Hire the line in nine days, not nine weeks.

Post once, talk to candidates directly, and skip the agency markup. We charge $89 per post — flat. No commission on hires, no annual lock-in, no recruiter dashboard you have to learn.

Post a role →
01 / Write the post

Ten-minute form. Wage required.

The form asks what a chef would ask: station, schedule, wage range, neighborhood, whether you sponsor, whether you stage. No HR boilerplate. We help you write the copy if you want — free.

02 / Receive applicants

Direct messages in your inbox.

Candidate messages land in your email and on your dashboard. Reply from either. We surface applicants whose neighborhood and shift preferences match — so you spend less time reading unlikely fits.

03 / Hire & we follow up

Average time-to-fill: 9 days.

Once you mark a role filled, we ask the new hire how it went — anonymous, optional. That feedback loops into how we rank your future posts. Good employers rise. Bad ones get quieter responses over time.

Thirty-eight neighborhoods, from Oceanside to Chula Vista.

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We filled a sauté cook role in four days. The candidate walked two blocks from his apartment to the stage. That's the kind of hyper-local match Indeed and Craigslist will never give you.

Chef Marcus Alejo
Owner · The Wooden Spoon, North Park

Find your next shift.

Browse 342 open roles across San Diego's food scene — or post one yourself in under ten minutes.

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