Role Summary: To define the concept, deliver and curate an exciting and commercially viable F&B offering for Bureau Restaurant, in the heart of the Design District on the Greenwich Peninsula.
Responsible to: Group General Manager
Date for review: 3 months
The role demands full accountability for the commercial and creative food and beverage success for the co working community and guests, whose taste will be as varied and demanding as the creative sectors they represent.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITES
THE CONCEPT
· Define and curate a fantastic offer of simple, delicious food that meets the everyday requirements of the Design Districts tastes. Working with the restaurant manager, plan an efficient set up of the kitchen and front of house operation.
Deliver a delicious and affordable breakfast, lunch and dinner offering, in the restaurant and coffee bar in Bureau. Constantly recognising areas where we can increase our commercial viability.
Work closely with the Restaurant Manager and Events Manager to deliver a range of events that caters for all Design District, Bureau and Co working events as well as an offer for booked meeting rooms.
Continue to embed the food and beverage offer as the beating heart of the Design District, it should always be authentic, have soul, be thoughtful and deliver an enjoyable and value driven experience.
Own and manage all purchasing, deliveries and stock taking.
Review and update suppliers regularly to keep GP margins up to date.
EVENTS / INNOVATION
- Devise, develop and deliver creative, commercially viable additional revenue streams for Bureau restaurant, including catering menu options for private hires.
- Curate a range of menus in line with Greenwich Peninsulas diverse events schedule, e.g. Diwali, Urban Village Fete, Turning Tides.
- Evolve a Supper Club events program for Bureau and DD tenants, responding to the eclectic mix of tenants and the co-working community.
ADMINISTRATION / SYSTEMS
- Budget management - take responsibility for daily, weekly ordering of goods and ensure that budgeted gross profit is achieved.
- Perform and complete stock takes and be able to present figures.
- Take ownership of maintenance of equipment and ensure it is in good repair and serviced in line with a PPM structure.
- Preventative maintenance including walking the facility daily to inspect and improve the environment, including minor or major refurbishments.
- Implementation of schedules to ensure kitchen is cleaned to a high standard.
- Ensure all food safety management systems are kept up to date and ready for inspection.
RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
- Build internal collaborative relationships with various functions e.g. – Marketing, Club Sales, Events etc.
- Build external collaborative relationships with other operators on and off the Peninsula to keep abreast of trends and competition.
- Work closely with the Restaurant manager to develop menu deals and organise the team for events and daily service.
TEAM
- Recruit, manage, train and lead a small reliable trustworthy team for the kitchen.
- Assist the Restaurant manager in managing, training and leading the front of house team to deliver and execute the offering.
- Work with the Group General Manager to ensure standards are met, and where they are not, mange staff accordingly.
- Ownership of the daily cleaning and maintenance, in line with the schedule, to ensure high standards are met.
Health and Safety
- · All employees of the Company have a statutory duty to co-operate together to promote health and safety best practice.
- Oversee accurate food safety and health and safety records in line with FSA standards (daily checklist, time and temperature records).
- Ensuring training and compliance within food safety and health and safety guidelines.
- Managing, maintaining and updating all risk assessments, COSHH documents, HACCP, allergens and training manuals regularly.
- Foster a positive food safety environment by effectively reviewing tasks carried out by your team.
Person Specification
- A unique destination demands a unique chef to define and deliver a simple creative and commercial food and beverage offer that meets the needs of our customers.
- You are innovative, forward thinking and excited by food. You understand what it takes to deliver simple food well, and change the menu seasonally using local, quality produce where possible.
- Your natural curiosity leads you to explore different cuisines, keeping abreast of trends, exploring cultures and adapting those to deliver great food for your customers.
- You have a wealth of innovative and exciting ideas that allures the residents, visitors, other leaseholders and the general public in hiring the space for events.
- You must have an active interest and understating in sustainability and waste. Our ambition is to deliver the food offer in the most sustainable way and will look to you to lead that during set up and every day after that.
Key skills and attributes
Skills - Essential
- A strong communicator, and team leader and player
- Enthusiastic and curious, particularly in relation to arts, culture, creative industries
- Experience of budgets and stock management
- Demonstrates a good eye for detail – standards don’t slip under your watch
- Maintains bright and positive behaviours alongside strong work ethic
- Written, numerical and computing skills appropriate to the role
- Understanding of different cooking methods
- Previous experience in producing baked products
- Strong commercially and financially astute
- Have a strong knowledge of food hygiene sand safe working practises
- Previous experience as a Head chef in a busy high volume, quality business
- Understands the importance of working well with multiple departments
- Full understanding of COSHH, HACCP, Allergens & Food safety management systems
- Have experienced EHO visits
- 5+ year in large events delivery
Interviews tomorrow
- Experience
- Required
- Languages
- English – Advanced
- Employment
- Full-time
- Schedule
- Monday - Friday 0800 - 1600
- Salary
- £40,000 yearly
- Starting time
- Immediate start!
Food and beverage • 11-50 Employees
Hiring on JOB TODAY since October, 2023
Company Background Greenwich Peninsula is Europe’s largest single regeneration development delivering 17,000 new homes in a new swathe of London that brings together culture, community and modern architecture.
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