You love real cooking. We love real cooking. Customers love real cooking. It's a no-brainer so you wonder why so many other places don't do it. We do it, and you'll be doing it with us - fresh, customer led, and with high-quality ingredients.
The Good Stuff
1. Annual salary up to £38,000
2. £1,000 joining bonus!
3. Offering £1,500 relocation package to people looking to relocate to the Chepstow area !
4. Additional earnings from our annual bonus scheme of up to £4,000 per annum for Head Chefs (paid every 6 months)
5. 40 and 48 hour contracts available
6. We work hard to ensure you don't work over your contracted hours, but if at times this does happen you will receive overtime pay for every hour worked over contracted hours!
7. Staff food on every shift
8. 50% off staff discount to enjoy outside working hours from day one
9. Paid breaks
10. 28 days holiday (inclusive of Bank Holidays) pro rata
11. Enhanced maternity and paternity pay after 2 years service
12. The most talked-about staff party in hospitality - Loungefest!
13. Competitions and incentives (like jetting off on an all expenses paid trip with one of our suppliers)
14. Company pension scheme
15. Long service awards
16. Power over your pay with Wagestream
17. Emotional and practical support via the Licenced Trade Charity
18. Great opportunity for personal development and career progression in a fast growing business
19. Achievable bonuses
20. Tips shared equally across the team, based on hours worked
21. Christmas and Boxing Day off!
What you'll bring
22. You are probably an existing Head Chef, Kitchen Manager or Sous Chef looking for your first step into a Head Chef role.
23. You will have experience of working with fresh ingredients and be able to demonstrate good chef/kitchen skills (food prep hot and cold, cleaning, knife skills, good hygiene practices)
24. Your work ethic is rolling your sleeves up and getting stuck in and leading from the front; playing an active role in delivering excellent kitchen and food standards as part of a high performing team.
25. Familiar with managing through clear KPIs and making decisions considering labour; stock; food safety requirements plus others.
26. You will have worked in kitchen environments where you're required to report on various metrics including GPs; labour/house; food preparation.
27. You will have demonstrated successful delivery of training and recruitment for kitchen teams including Apprentices, KPs, Chefs, Junior Sous Chefs and Sous Chefs.
28. You'll be doing it your way. You'll be part of a dedicated, supportive team, working from our flexible all-day menu to give people food that'll make their day. It'll be your responsibility to make each dish to spec, in a clean and safe kitchen, and to make sure all prep and par is completed for each shift. You'll be helping every customer leave happy. Which they tend to do. Thanks to your great food.
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