East Molesey
HEAD CHEF • new opening, premium Italian restaurant, Hampton Court We're opening a brand new premium Italian restaurant near Hampton Court at the end of October, and we're looking for a Head Chef to build the kitchen with us from day one. THE ROLE This is an empty kitchen and it becomes yours. The menu, the specs, the suppliers, the brigade, the food cost, you'll be leading all of it from day one. You'll be recruiting your own team and training them the way you want them trained. You'll write the menu. You'll set the standard and then hold it, night after night, which is the harder half of the job. You'll report to the General Manager, and the big calls, menu, pricing, suppliers, hires, spend, are signed off together. This is a restaurant with an identity and a group with a way of doing things, and we expect both to be respected. Within that, how the kitchen runs is yours. We're not handing you someone else's kitchen to maintain. We're handing you a room and asking you to build it. What you get from us is a company that has done this four times before, pays on time, and plans ahead, and has further openings coming. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR At least eight years' proven experience in Italian kitchens Experience running a kitchen at Head Chef or strong Sous level Full command of menu development, food cost and GP Confident recruiting, training and leading a brigade Strong on ordering, suppliers, stock and compliance Comfortable working to company policy and to the direction of the General Manager Good English, you'll need to understand, be understood, and write clearly Available full time, shifts across all seven days The right to live and work in the UK These are requirements, not a wish list. If you're missing one of them, this isn't the right role for you. WHAT YOU GET Contract from day one One free meal every shift Two days off a week Monthly payslip Service charge and tips shared Workplace pension £500 referral bonus for anyone you bring in who passes probation Paid training, with structured training every three months Real progression, we have further openings planned A group that has traded for twenty years, including the hard years The chance to open a restaurant from day one, not join one already running FREE ACCOMMODATION IS AVAILABLE FOR SOME OF THE ROLES. START DATE: MID OCTOBER , ahead of the opening. You'll be in from the soft opening, setting the place up with us. ABOUT US We're a hospitality group that has been running restaurants in this area for 20 years. We currently have four sites, and at the end of October we're opening our fifth: a premium Italian restaurant near Hampton Court, seating around 70. The food is proper Italian cooking with a modern hand: good ingredients, treated properly, served well. The standards are high and we won't pretend otherwise. What we offer back is a company that pays on time, plans ahead, and promotes from within. We're hiring the full kitchen and front of house team from scratch. We're looking for people who want to build something, not just fill a shift. TPBN1_UKCT