London
Reports to: Head Chef (Shankar Gurumurthy) Department: Operations Location: Wood Green, London N22 Schedule: Tuesday to Saturday (full-time) Type: Permanent About Eat Píng Eat Píng is a fast-growing, London-based meal subscription business delivering balanced and nutritious Asian food at scale. We combine authentic flavours with healthier ingredient substitutions and no trade-off between taste and health. We’ve scaled from zero to over 5,500 meals per week within our first year and are building the operational foundations to triple that. This is not a live-service kitchen. We are a food production operation built with systematic, military-grade operational discipline. Every dish follows a standardised recipe bible and plating bible, batch cooked and blast chilled to exacting food safety standards. The Role We’re hiring a Sous Chef to work alongside our Head Chef and be a hands-on leader in the kitchen. You’ll play a central role in production execution, quality assurance, team supervision, and food safety compliance as we scale. This is a role for someone who thrives in a high-intensity, process-driven environment and takes personal ownership of output quality. Key Responsibilities Production & Execution • Lead and execute batch cooking across a weekly production cycle: sauce prep (Tuesday), main prep (Wednesday), production (Thursday), portioning and sealing (Friday–Saturday), • Operate and oversee use of commercial kitchen equipment including Rational Bratt Pans, convection ovens, blast chillers, Robocoupes, and heat sealers, • Ensure all food is blast chilled to below 2°C within protocol timeframes and correctly stored in cold rooms, • Prepare dishes to exact specifications set out in the recipe consistency is a non-negotiable, • Conduct taste tests on every production batch and escalate quality concerns to the Head Chef for sign-off, • Uphold a zero-tolerance food safety culture; ensure all team members are HS2 certified and wearing full PPE (hair nets, gloves, white overalls, safety shoes) at all times, • Supervise and direct kitchen assistants and picker/packers during production and portioning shifts, • Act as second-in-command to the Head Chef; take full ownership of the kitchen in their absence, • Train new team members on SOPs, equipment handling, food safety procedures, and production workflows Essential • Proven experience as a Sous Chef or Senior CDP in a high-volume food production or commercial kitchen environment, • Strong knowledge of batch cooking techniques, blast chilling protocols, and cold chain management, • Level 2 Food Safety & Hygiene certification (HS2) — or willingness to obtain before start date, • Demonstrable understanding of HACCP principles and food safety record-keeping, • Experience operating commercial kitchen equipment (Bratt pans, convection ovens, blast chillers, Robocoupes), • Ability to lead a team under pressure while maintaining quality and safety standards, • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, scaling startup environment with high expectations for output and discipline, • Right to work in the UK Desirable • Experience with Asian cuisine — particularly South East Asian, Chinese, Korean, or Japanese cooking techniques and flavour profiles, • Background in meal prep, subscription food, or FMCG food production, • Level 3 Food Safety & Hygiene certification, • Experience with recipe scaling and cost-aware production planning Our Culture Eat Píng operates by four core standards. These aren’t aspirational — they’re how we work every day: • Aggressive Intensity — We are here to win. We expect high performers who consistently bring their A-game., • Ruthless Efficiency — Every effort must drive meaningful results. We focus on what matters most and execute relentlessly., • Cross Collaboration — No role operates in isolation. Kitchen, operations, growth, and tech work together with shared responsibility., • Creative Discipline — Punctuality, professionalism, and respect are mandatory. At the same time, if you believe a process can be improved, we want to hear it.
