Company Description
Title: Chef Manager
Location: Peterborough
Salary: £35,000
An innovative Chef Manager is required to run this boutique contract at one of our Peterborough locations! Great opportunity to create wonderful dishes within an excellent kitchen environment. Working with two team members.
Benefits:
- 28 Days holiday including bank holidays
- Plus your birthday off
- 3 volunteering days
- 3 days grandparent leave
- 24 weeks enhanced maternity leave
- Secondary carer leave
- Wedding/commitment day leave
- Free meals on shift
- Bespoke training and development opportunities
- Apprenticeship opportunities for all experience levels
- Pension and life insurance
- Discounts available on our HAPI app; high street shops, holidays & cinema
- Wellbeing hub
- Access to employee assistance programme
- Cycle to work scheme
Are you a culinary connoisseur / gastronomic genius? Do you have an insatiable passion for the culinary arts and a burning desire to create masterful dishes that delight the senses? Yes? Then this is the role for you. At BaxterStorey, we offer an exceptional culinary playground where your creativity can flourish and your talents shine. We wholeheartedly believe that the best food comes from nurturing talent and empowering our chefs to continuously evolve and refine their craft, that’s why we invest in you to develop your professional growth.
If you are an inspirational and enthusiastic Chef Manager keen to make a name for yourself within the food service industry, we would love to hear from you!
Job Description
- Menu Planning and Execution: create and plan menus in accordance with the style and customer preferences of the location. Oversee food preparation and presentation to ensure high-quality dishes, monitoring wastage and portion control.
- Employee Management: recruit, train, and supervise all colleagues, including chefs, cooks, and front of house. Provide continual guidance, coaching, and performance feedback to the kitchen team.
- Inventory and Cost Control: monitor and manage stock levels with a sensible approach to ordering supplies.
- Customer Relations: interact with customers to understand their specific catering needs and preferences, maintaining an open channel of communication to address any concerns or requirements. Consistently seeking feedback is key to success.
- Health and Safety Compliance: support the head chef to ensure adherence to health and safety regulations and food safety protocols/policies. Create an environment that has safety embedded in the culture.
- Budget and Financial Management: develop and manage kitchen budgets, report on financial performance, and implement any cost savings required without impacting delivery of excellence.
- Menu Development and Innovation: stay updated on culinary trends and incorporate new ideas into menus.
- Compliance and Documentation: maintain accurate records of inventory, orders, and food preparation processes and ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements.
Qualifications
- Proven experience at a similar size location within the contract catering market.
- Recent background as a Chef Manager.
- Excellent creative culinary skills.
- Leadership and team management abilities.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal relations skills.
- Proficiency in food cost management.
- Knowledge of food safety and health and safety regulations.
- Ability to adapt and work in a fast-paced environment.
- Works according to the BaxterStorey core values.
Additional Information
For almost 20 years, we have created beautiful spaces, exciting menus, and friendly teams, so that each and every customer can have the hospitality experience they deserve.
We need the brightest and the best to join us to make this all possible. We will support you to create your hospitality legacy and build a career that you are proud of.
Join us, and be part of the food revolution!
BaxterStorey Values:
ALWAYS VISIONARY: We strive for better, we never settle, never compromise, never follow. We lead the way, blazing our own trail.
WHOLEHEARTEDLY POSITIVE: We are upbeat, motivating, and inspiring. Our love for what we do radiates through our food and is amplified by our people.
CREATIVELY COLLABORATIVE: We embrace our differences to push creativity and we work together to be better.
FOREVER CONSCIOUS: We work together as a team to lead by example, protecting the planet and supporting local communities.
Interested? Even if you don’t meet all requirements, we’d like to hear from you. If you are motivated and hungry to learn, we can work together to develop your potential.
We are proud to be an inclusive employer and welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We celebrate individuality and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applications from people of all ages, abilities, gender identities, sexual orientations, races, religions, and socio-economic backgrounds.
BaxterStorey is committed to encouraging equity, diversity, and inclusion (ED&I) among our workforce and aims for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To support our commitment to this, we have set ourselves an ambition to ‘set the standard and be recognised for having the most inclusive culture in hospitality’.
Join us and bring your unique perspective to our team.
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