Salary - £15.50 to £17 per hour
Schedule - Full Time
Experience - Previous experience in a quality restaurant
BAO Kings Cross are seeking a Senior Chef de Partie to join their team. The successful candidate will be friendly, personable and passionate about all things food and drink. This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Senior Chef de Partie looking for a new role in an award winning, critically acclaimed group.
The Location
Each BAO location represents a different slice of culture in Taiwan.
The Position
We're looking for an experienced Senior Chef de Partie to join our kitchen team, creating exceptional dishes and delivering an all-encapsulating experience to our guests. You'll have experience working in a quality kitchen, adhering to standard operating and Health and Safety procedures. More importantly we are looking for people for as passionate about food and hospitality as we are!
If you have the following, then we want to hear from you:
Prior experience as a Senior Chef de Partie within a fast-paced quality, restaurant;
Eagerness to roll your sleeves up and get stuck in;
A creative approach with impeccable attention to detail;
Passion for about food and hospitality, along with the eagerness to continually learn;
The desire to develop your career within an ambitious and trend-setting restaurant group;
The Benefits
We want to create a great place to work that mirrors the soft fluffy embrace of a BAO
We have a commitment to work life balance. Our rotas are based on 6 shifts over 5 days, with a maximum of 1 double. You will get 2 weeks rotas in advance so you can have a life outside of work.
Your development is important to us. Within your first year with us, you’ll have three reviews, giving you the platform to tell us how we can support you better, and to identify development opportunities.
We’re serious on our education, meet School of BAO. Learn Mastery, Discover Artistry. A meticulously crafted calendar of events, workshops, talks.
Our perks, hands down the best hospitality discount in London.
50% off food and drink across all of BAO and JKS restaurants, plus some rotating restaurant discounts.
We have our own currency, meet BAOcoin. A reward scheme where you earn BAOcoin by displaying BAO behaviours, and cash in prizes from the BAOshop.
There are other ways to earn some cash with the BAO Pyramid Scheme. Sell the BAO dream to your friends, and earn up to £500 for a referral.
We’re serious about our parties. Our record turnout for our parties speaks for itself. At the beginning of the year we have a huge Wei Ya Party paired with our Annual Awards Ceremony.Our second large party is our Moon Festival BBQ in September. For good measure we throw in a handful of Karaoke Parties in the middle.
The Group
BAO quite literally means steamed bun. But BAO means so much more than that, a cult brand with a cult following that aims to inspire with design through food. Founded in 2013 by family trio, Erchen Chang, Shing Tat Chung and Wai Ting Chung in a carpark in East London to now spanning 5 restaurants across London, where each has its own story of Taiwanese Culture with unique experience, narrative and menu.
4 Pancras Square, N1C 4AG, London
Restaurant group • More than 250 Employees
Hiring on JOB TODAY since August, 2024
JKS Restaurants offers a unique chance to either pursue a career in fine dining or develop within a casual trend-focused cuisine, with opportunities across all disciplines for those looking to progress their careers within a people-focus
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