🍽️ Head Chef 📍 Location: Seven Sisters, N15 💷 Pay: £36,500 – £42,500 per annum 📆 Contract: Full-time | 45–48 hours per week 🌟 BENEFITS FOR YOU • 24/7 online private GP support — your wellbeing matters, • Free meals & soft drinks on every shift — because food is love, • Birthday gift vouchers, • Staff discounts when dining with friends & family (up to 3 guests), • Fun, inclusive team socials — karaoke, bowling, roller disco, and more, • A collaborative, values-driven culture where you can be yourself, • The chance to shape an award-winning, fast-growing restaurant brand 🧑🏽🍳 YOUR ROLE As Head Chef, your responsibilities will include: • Lead, motivate, and develop your kitchen team, • Run service and lead the pass, • Ensure Food Safety & Health & Safety compliance, • Conduct kitchen audits, • Manage stock control and COGS, including wastage, • Meet KPIs, • Be a Chuku’s ambassador — sharing your passion for food and culture with the team and guests 🧠 WHAT YOU'LL BRING • 4+ years’ chef experience, including 2+ years in leadership, • Proven ability to lead with care and confidence, lifting those around you, • Experience managing suppliers, stocktaking, and flexible with new systems, • Strong understanding of profit & loss and labour management, • Calm communicator under pressure, • Genuine love of food and people No need to know Nigerian or West African cuisine — bring your passion and hunger to learn, and we’ll teach you the flavours. 🎉 WHO WE ARE Chuku’s is about culture, community, and cuisine. What started 10 years ago as a brother and sister pop-up with a dream to share the spirit of Lagos in London has grown into a flagship restaurant in Tottenham — full of colour, energy, and afrobeats, serving vibrant Nigerian dishes made for sharing. With big ambitions and a second site on the horizon, now’s the perfect time to join a team that believes in new possibilities — building something bold, joyful, and lasting. Every dish is a conversation. Every guest is family. Every team member matters. We support each other, value everyone, and make real connections — through our food, with each other, and the world around us.
We have a position for a Head Chef with solid proven “Fresh Food” experience to take over the running and management of our busy kitchen. You must be a strong communicator who is approachable across all levels. You must be reliable and dedicated to exceeding expectations. Our ideal candidate will be up to date with COSHH, Food Safety, H&S & legal regulations. You can deliver proven experience supporting, coaching, and developing our small and effective team. You should have a full understanding of Kitchen Management & food safety. We are looking for proven experience of stock taking & waste management with the ability to adapt and learn new systems and operating procedures. Ideally holding level 3 Food Safety qualification An ambassador of the company’s values, always working within the code of conduct. Be happy to work closely with the rest of the kitchen team and have the ambition to take this pub & restaurant and private events operation, to the next level.
JOB DESCRIPTION: We aim for no double shifts and 2 days off a week, as we know there's more to life than just work. Location: Seven Sisters, N15 Salary: £12.75-13.25 p/hr Contract: Part Time (up to 30 hours p/week) BENEFITS FOR YOU: • No double shifts, • 2 days off a week, • Private health care, • Birthday gift voucher, • Fun & relaxed family-spirited tean, • FREE food every shift you work, • Regular team socials (e.g. paintballing), • Staff discounts when you dine in, • Being part of an award-winning independent restaurant WHO IS CHUKU'S: We're an award-winning independent restaurant serving up an immersive cultural dining experience with a vibrant atmosphere. We've been featured on BBC, Sky and Time Out. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR: To be a Kitchen Supervisor at Chuku's you need to: 1. An ambitious desire to learn, 2. An eye for detail, 3. A genuine love for food, 4. A big heart and big smile You do not need to be an expert in Nigerian/West African cuisine, as we can teach you. Are you an experienced chef looking for a new role in a growing restaurant business? Then apply to join our team at Chuku’s – the world's first Nigerian tapas restaurant.
JOB DESCRIPTION: We aim for no double shifts and 2 days off a week, as we know there's more to life than just work. Location: Seven Sisters, N15 Salary: £12.75-13.25 p/hr Contract: Part Time (up to 30 hours p/week) BENEFITS FOR YOU: • No double shifts, • 2 days off a week, • Private health care, • Birthday gift voucher, • Fun & relaxed family-spirited tean, • FREE food every shift you work, • Regular team socials (e.g. paintballing), • Staff discounts when you dine in, • Being part of an award-winning independent restaurant WHO IS CHUKU'S: We're an award-winning independent restaurant serving up an immersive cultural dining experience with a vibrant atmosphere. We've been featured on BBC, Sky and Time Out. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR: To be a Senior Chef de Partie at Chuku's you need to: 1. An ambitious desire to learn, 2. An eye for detail, 3. A genuine love for food, 4. A big heart and big smile You do not need to be an expert in Nigerian/West African cuisine, as we can teach you. Are you an experienced chef looking for a new role in a growing restaurant business? Then apply to join our team at Chuku’s – the world's first Nigerian tapas restaurant.