Executive Chef

You'll be leading our kitchen team at Loungers, where we're passionate about serving high-quality, fresh food to our customers. As a Head Chef, you'll be responsible for delivering excellent kitchen and food standards, working closely with your team to achieve this goal. Your experience in managing kitchen environments, including labour, stock, and food safety requirements, will be invaluable in this role.

You'll be working from our flexible all-day menu, using fresh ingredients to create dishes that will make our customers' day. Your standards will be as high as ours, but exactly how you do it will be unique to you. You'll be part of a dedicated, supportive team, working together to achieve our goals.

The Good Stuff

• Overtime pay for every hour worked over contracted hours
  
• Staff food on every shift
  
• 50% off staff discount to enjoy outside working hours from day one
  
• Paid breaks
  
• 28 days holiday (inclusive of Bank Holidays) pro rata
  
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay after 2 years service
  
• The most talked-about staff party in hospitality - Loungefest
  
• Competitions and incentives (like jetting off on an all expenses paid trip with one of our suppliers)
  
• Company pension scheme
  
• Long service awards
  
• Power over your pay with Wagestream
  
• Emotional and practical support via the Licenced Trade Charity
  
• Great opportunity for personal development and career progression in a fast growing business
  
• Achievable bonuses
  
• Tips shared equally across the team, based on hours worked
  
• Christmas and Boxing Day off
  

What You'll Bring

• You are probably an existing Head Chef, Kitchen Manager or Sous Chef looking for your first step into a Head Chef role.
  
• 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)
  
• 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.
  
• Familiar with managing through clear KPIs and making decisions considering labour; stock; food safety requirements plus others.
  
• You will have worked in kitchen environments where you're required to report on various metrics including GPs; labour/house; food preparation.
  
• You will have demonstrated successful delivery of training and recruitment for kitchen teams including Apprentices, KPs, Chefs, Junior Sous Chefs and Sous Chefs.
  

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