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  • Bartender
    Bartender
    21 days ago
    £14.8 hourly
    Part-time
    London

    Canteen is a completely unique global food hall destination at the heart of the Design District next to the o2 arena. The buildings iconic design, make for an incredibly exciting place of work, with incredible opportunities. Our unique benefits · £14.80 ph in line with London Living Wage · Experience bartenders welcome · Very flexible working hours · Full training and ongoing brand incentives with the bar & canteen · Fast track to supervisory roles · No late nights Role As one of our Bartenders & venue hosts you will be the face of the Canteen, delivering exceptional customer service, serving customer orders in a timely manner while always bringing forward your personality. With the Bar open from 12pm through to 9pm, you will be delivering service to a range of customers, and we want you to get to know our regulars who will pop in every morning for a coffee to customers coming for their first time on their way to an event at the 02. Personalising each interaction will allow us to stand out and establish ourselves as a place to visit. Varied contract lengths. Experience We are looking for people with experience within food & beverage who are willing to learn and work hard. The ability to prioritise different tasks and requests with great organisational skills. Experience making cocktails and barista would be ideal but full training will be given. Food Hygiene certificate and Health & safety awareness an advantage but full training will again be given. Good level of English language both written & spoken. Overall, we are looking for people who have a great personality and able to bring their all into work every day. Duties and Responsibilities CUSTOMERS: · Ensure that the customers experience is one to remember · Maintain a high-profile during service whilst being polite and helpful · Promote and establish a regular customer base, remember their likes and dislikes · Smile and maintain eye contact with customers · Provide prompt, unobtrusive, attentive service · Maintain high standards of personal appearance · Maintain a high standard of personal hygiene PRIOR TO SERVICE: · Report for duty on time and prepared for your shift · Assist others in ensuring that stations are equipped with sufficient clean equipment · Stock up as per standard · Ensure Bar is set up and stocked appropriately · Ensure Bar, back of house areas and floor is clean to standard DURING SERVICE: · Take instruction from your manager/ supervisor, anticipate their requirements · Provide attentive, unobtrusive, prompt service, work as a team · Take and process orders, make, serve and clear food and drinks, troubleshoot where necessary. · Respond to any menu/drinks queries with knowledgeable answers · Ensure the customers’ needs come first · React promptly and deal with any issues, complaints, breakages, spillages as member of the supervisory team. · Communicate any unresolved issues to the manager/ supervisor AFTER SERVICE: · Break down tables and clean · Break down stations · Restock stations as necessary · Ensure everything is left clean and tidy. · Report any outstanding service issues the supervisor/ manager KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED: · To have an excellent understanding of the different menus and the style of service for drinks, food and retail · To have a full working knowledge of all beverage items to include undertaking training in wines, beers, spirits and cocktails · To have a full understanding of all items of equipment, their uses, and where they are kept · To have a thorough working knowledge of the EPOS system to include, geography, what to do if it crashes, troubleshooting and knowing how the credit card payment handsets work. · To represent management in event of emergency, and to assist customers in same · To know where all emergency exits are · To pay due regard to the Health and Safety Policy and Food Safety policy and to ensure standards are met throughout the business. · To pay due regard to the company’s policy on Confidentiality 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. Design District is a collection of 16 buildings designed by eight architects set in the heart of Greenwich Peninsula. The Design District will offer permanent and purpose-designed studio space for the creative industries, asset managed by Design District Limited. Prescient Group is managing the Canteen & Bar. We are known for shaping and operating renowned food & beverage, retail and cultural destinations. We work to transform spaces into meaningful assets that deliver targeted results. Some examples of our varied prior clients and projects have been Old Spitalfields Market, Ralph Lauren, Petersham Nurseries, Corbin and King and Burberry. More on Design District Canteen & Bar (“Canteen”) Canteen is a food and beverage destination at the heart of the Design District servicing the residents and visitors of Greenwich Peninsula. It is a highly visible semi-open outdoor venue in the shape of a caterpillar, it is completely transparent and freely accessible. Within the space are six fully fitted-out kitchen spaces and a larger bar. There are two floors with the first floor used as a large seating area and the ground floor housing the finishing kitchens, bar and circulation for the guest. Canteen also benefits from an adjacent shared production kitchen where the partnering food operators will prepare food and dispense deliveries. It will be a wonderful and vibrant place to visit, full of light and benefitting from large trees and comfortable casual seating. Design District Canteen & Bar (“Canteen Bar”) The Bar will provide the arrival experience for all guests entering the Canteen venue from the O2. There will be a varied customer of creatives, residential, visitors and workers and so the Bar is to provide a broad offer of appeal. From craft local beers to cocktails, quality coffee and smoothies to biodynamic wines. The Canteen Bar will be a place for everyone to enjoy through out the day. It is anticipated that the Bars proximity to the O2 will mean that there will be very busy event lead periods. The Bar will be fast, fun, diverse and deliver a high standard of quality and service.

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  • Evening Kitchen Supervisor
    Evening Kitchen Supervisor
    1 month ago
    £35000–£40000 yearly
    Full-time
    London

    Real hours. Real food. Early 6AM & PM shifts but never finish past 11pm. Location Fitzrovia - 2 min walk from Goodge Street, 4 min walk from Warren Street. 5 min walk from Euston Square. WHAT WE CAN OFFER • £35,000-40,000 pa based on experience, • Guaranteed weekly hours — no zero-hours nonsense., • Free meals on shift — actual good healthy food, • Central London location — Warren Street/Goodge Street / Euston, • Full time, • AM and PM shifts WHAT THIS ISN'T • Not a late-night job. Latest finish is 11pm, most nights earlier., • 6AM shifts also, • Not a zero-hours gig. Your weekly hours are locked in., • Not a dead end. Real promotion route, signed off by the Store Manager. We are a premium health food brand in Central London. We're hiring people who want a proper hospitality job as part of a happy team — without the chaos, the midnight finishes, or the unpredictable rotas. We are busy Monday to Thursday then things for the rest of the week are more chill. This is a busy place where time flys. If you're looking for consistent shifts, a clear finish time, and a path that actually leads somewhere — read on. Kitchen Specialist You've done prep, you can run ovens, and you want somewhere that respects your skills without grinding you into the floor. This is that job. THE HOURS · UPFRONT Kitchen skills without the kitchen hours. Most kitchens pay you to sacrifice your life. We don't. Latest finish is 11pm and the earliest shift is 6am. Hours are guaranteed weekly. Rotas are out in advance. If you want to pick up extra shifts, you can — but no one's calling you at 10pm begging you to stay. You'll still go home at a reasonable hour, you'll still see your family and mates. WHAT YOU'LL ACTUALLY DO • Run the ovens and hot section — proteins, roast veg, baked items to spec., • Make sauces and dressings from scratch — pestos, dips, marinades, dressings., • Handle complex recipes — multi-step cooking, seasoning, the proper techniques., • Own the quality — every batch tasted, every protein temperature-checked, nothing rushed out., • Train Kitchen Prep — pass on what you know, bring people up with you. WHO YOU ARE • You've already done prep — and you can comfortably use ovens., • You respect the craft — you adjust, you don't send out sloppy food., • You work clean and fast — organised station, no panicking under pressure., • You're over the toxic kitchen nonsense — and you don't bring it with you., • You want to lead eventually — and you're willing to earn it. How things move from here. In store interview-> Trial shift-> Start

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  • Operations Manager
    Operations Manager
    2 months ago
    £30000–£45000 yearly
    Full-time
    Nine Elms, London

    Operations Manager — Produce Network We supply fresh produce to some of London's best restaurants. While most of the city sleeps, our team is at wholesale markets hand-picking produce that lands in restaurant kitchens before breakfast service. It's fast, physical, and relentless — and right now we're a team of 3 doing the work of 10. We need the fourth. This role in one paragraph You'll run the operational engine of a growing wholesale business. Client calls, order coordination, daily reconciliation, bookkeeping, problem-solving, phone ringing — all of it is yours. You're the first person clients speak to and the last person to check that yesterday's numbers add up. If something goes wrong overnight — a wrong delivery, a short order, a supplier issue — you're the one who finds out, fixes it, and makes sure the client knows before they have to chase us. You own the daytime operation the way our Night Operations Manager owns the night. Between the two of you, the business runs 24 hours. What you'll actually do every day You're the client's main contact. Orders come in via WhatsApp, phone, and email. You process them, confirm them, flag anything unusual. When a chef calls at 8:15 AM asking where their herbs are, you already know the answer because you've read the night report and checked the dispatch log. You don't wait for problems to come to you — you call the client before they call you. That's the difference between an assistant and an operator. You coordinate the fix when things go wrong. Produce wholesale is not a clean business. Items get substituted, deliveries run late, a crate arrives damaged. When it happens, you own the resolution: investigate, coordinate with the night team or drivers, arrange the fix (re-delivery, credit note, replacement), close the loop with the client, and log the whole thing. If the same problem shows up three times, you're the person who flags it as a process issue — not just an incident. You reconcile everything, every day. What was ordered vs what was received from suppliers vs what was dispatched vs what was invoiced. Purchase orders matched against supplier invoices. Sales orders matched against customer invoices. Inventory tracked. Shortages flagged before they become emergencies. You produce a daily summary the founder reviews in 5 minutes — clean, accurate, no surprises. If you're the kind of person who finds satisfaction in numbers that balance, this will be your favourite part of the job. You run the books. Day-to-day bookkeeping in QuickBooks or Xero: bank feeds, invoices, bills, categorisation. Debtor chasing — politely on the due date, firmly at 3 days overdue, escalated to the founder at 30 days. Weekly financial summary. Monthly close support. You maintain the product cost data that powers margin tracking — weekly updates, no exceptions. The founder makes pricing and growth decisions based on numbers you produce. They have to be right. You own the phone. The main business line rings and you answer it. Existing clients with questions, prospective clients with enquiries, suppliers with updates. You're professional, you're warm, you handle what you can and route what you can't. For new enquiries, you capture the details, qualify the lead, and hand it to the founder. You support outbound sales — managing the email pipeline, scheduling meetings, preparing documents. When a new account closes, you run the onboarding playbook. Who we're looking for — honestly We're not looking for a CV. We're looking for a specific type of person. You're the person who walks into a room and notices what's broken before anyone tells you. You fix things that aren't your job because leaving them broken bothers you. You write things down because you know you'll forget otherwise. You don't need to be chased — you chase other people. When something goes wrong, your instinct is to understand why, not to find someone to blame. You're comfortable saying "I don't know, but I'll find out" and then actually finding out. You're comfortable making a decision with 80% of the information because waiting for 100% means the client is already unhappy. You're comfortable being wrong sometimes, because you know that the person who never makes a mistake is the person who never does anything. You probably have some experience in operations, admin, or office management — ideally at a small business where you wore multiple hats. Maybe you've worked in food, hospitality, or wholesale. Maybe you haven't, but you've run the back end of something and you know what it feels like when everything depends on you not dropping the ball. Essential: Strong written and spoken English · comfortable with numbers, spreadsheets, and accounting tools · self-directed (you manage yourself, we don't manage you) · able to hold 5 priorities at once without losing any · honest about mistakes · quick to learn new software (Airtable, QuickBooks/Xero, Lemlist) · right to work in the UK. Preferred: Bookkeeping experience or QuickBooks/Xero familiarity · food, hospitality, or wholesale background · complaint handling or fast-paced customer service experience · inventory or stock management exposure. Nice to have: AAT qualification · Airtable or CRM experience · knowledge of the London restaurant scene. Why this job is worth your time Most operations roles are dead ends. This one isn't. Here's why. We're a team of 3, growing fast. The person who takes this role will — within months, not years — understand every part of how a wholesale business works: client management, supply chain, financial control, inventory, sales. That's not because we'll send you on a training course. It's because you'll be doing all of it, every day, from week one. The explicit deal: start at £33k. Hit your 3-month performance review targets and move to £38k. Hit your 12-month targets and move to £45k. These aren't vague promises — they're structured milestones tied to specific outcomes we'll agree together in your first week. The long-term path is Chief Operating Officer. That's not a title we're dangling to attract applicants — it's a gap that actually exists in the business and needs to be filled by someone who's earned it from the inside. The founder wants to focus on growth and strategy. The person who proves they can run the day-to-day operation — and then improve it — becomes the person who runs it permanently. The full picture • Hours: 8 AM – 6 PM, Monday to Friday, • Location: London (on-site, not remote — the work requires being where the operation is), • Salary: £33,000 → £38,000 at 3 months → £45,000 at 12 months, all performance-linked, • Title progression: Operations Manager → Head of Operations → COO, • Team: you'll be the 4th person in a tight, high-trust team, • Culture: direct, honest, fast. We tell each other when things are wrong and we fix them together. No politics, no layers, no waiting for permission

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