Full Time
Kitchen Team Leader
We have an exciting opportunity in our busy kitchen for a full time Kitchen Team Leader. Do you love working in a vibrant kitchen? Do you have a passion for working with people who love fresh, locally sourced or home grown food? Are you a professionally trained chef with previous experience up to Sous Chef level? Then this job could be perfect for you!
The role is full time, 5 days a week includes weekends with the usual hours being day time only with Friday nights during the summer only. You will be joining an amazing Team, working in one of Warwickshire’s best known rural cafes and there is plenty of room to grow in the role for the right candidate who is looking for a new challenge.
Responsibilities:
Create Great Food
- To produce great-tasting food for our customers, ensuring a high quality of food is continuously produced, always using seasonal ingredients and working with the best ingredients available from our Farm Shop.
- To ensure any customer complaints are managed appropriately during any service when I am working.
Menu Management
- To contribute to a seasonal, great tasting, interesting menu throughout the year, ensuring that this menu hits our budget.
- To ensure that we are getting the most competitive prices from our suppliers.
- To manage waste, minimising the value of stock thrown away whilst ensuring that food safety and quality are not compromised.
- To make sure that we have the optimum amount of stock on-site, so that we can always meet customers’ orders.
- To ensure our menus are compliant with food safety legislation.
- To assist writing and costing menus for private functions as requested by customers.
Hygiene
- To ensure that the kitchen is maintained to a high standard of hygiene at all times and that it always complies with food safety legislation.
- To ensure compliance with EHO visits and we achieve a 5/5 rating at our next spot visit.
- To lead by example with regards to hygiene standards set, ensuring the Team are always clear on what needs to be done and best practice is followed.
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