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  • Festival Manager
    Festival Manager
    13 hours ago
    Full-time
    London

    Chickenish is looking for an experienced Event and Festival Manager to join our growing team for the 2026 summer season and beyond. Working closely with the owner and core management team, you will oversee festival and event operations from planning through to delivery, ensuring smooth, professional and high-energy service on site. We trade at some of the UK’s leading festivals and events, and this role is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, understands festival logistics, and enjoys leading teams on the ground. We are building a long term team as the company continues to grow, with exciting plans ahead. Key Responsibilities: • Staff rota planning and team coordination, • Strong understanding of food hygiene systems and operational standards, • Stock management, ordering and supplier communication, • Festival setup and pack down, • Ensuring equipment is cleaned, maintained and ready for future use, • Liaising with CPU and suppliers to manage stock flow, • Communicating with site managers and event organisers, • Overseeing daily opening and closing procedures, • Managing daily cash outs and reporting Requirements: • Proven experience working in festivals or large scale events is essential, • Strong organisational and leadership skills, • Ability to stay calm and solution focused in high pressure environments, • Driving licence preferred What We Offer: • Above average London Living Wage, • Approx. 40 hours per week on average across the summer season, with peak activity from May to September, • A supportive and positive company culture, • A wellbeing strategy being implemented this year, with a focus on team care, • Long term opportunities as we continue expanding our festival presence If you’re passionate about events, great food, and building something exciting with a committed team, we’d love to hear from you.

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  • Festival Unit Manager
    Festival Unit Manager
    3 days ago
    £16–£19 hourly
    Full-time
    Whitehall, Westminster

    DOME creates exciting, high-energy places where people come together, spanning nationwide festivals, meanwhile spaces on the Southbank, pop-ups, catering, and events across London, alongside our two Truffle Burger restaurants in central London. We design, deliver, and operate vibrant, food-led destinations, working with our own in-house brands and a curated network of national and international partners. Our brands are quick-service and crowd-led, known for decadent, delicious and creative menus. By bringing together independent concepts under one roof, we create memorable, high-impact experiences that activate spaces and attract diverse audiences. In the Summer season we take some mega teams on the road across the UK, from Scotland down to the Isle of Wight, who run experience-led food halls with our 6 in-house brands, at some of the country's biggest and best-loved music festivals. What starts in London's street-food scene becomes a full season of life on the road along-side 150 team members --- moving city to city, building buzzing food spaces, and delivering high-energy service to huge crowds. Festival life is intense and fast-paced, with long shifts, big volumes, and high standards, but it's also hugely rewarding. You'll live and work closely with your team all summer, sharing camps, late nights, headline artists, crew access, and the kind of moments and friendships that only come from doing something memorable together. It's hard work, high adrenaline, and completely unforgettable --- a season you'll always talk about long after the last show and service ends. As we continue to operate multiple high-volume food units at festivals across the UK, we're looking for experienced, hands-on Unit Managers to take full ownership of their brand and unit. This role is key to keeping things running smoothly day to day --- leading teams of 6, maintaining standards, and ensuring great food and service in intense, fast-paced festival environments. We're looking for: You're an energetic and experienced festival Unit, kiosk or concession manager with a background in fast paced hospitality, street food, festivals or quick service dining. You love leading, inspiring and motivating teams through the most energy fuelled shifts and take pride in running your unit to the highest standards. Hands-on and unstoppable- you embrace busy days and the excitement of life on the road, working closely with a close-knit team to deliver unforgettable festival experiences across the UK. • Running the day-to-day operation of a festival food unit, including setup, service, and close-down, • Leading, supporting, and motivating your team to deliver consistent food quality and service, • Managing stock, ordering, wastage, and costs in line with targets, • Building and managing rotas, staffing levels, and day-to-day people issues, • Working closely with operations, warehouse, and build/break teams to manage stock and equipment, • Reporting weekly on performance, costs, people, compliance, and upcoming needs What we offer: • Permanent, full-time roles with development plans to build experience, confidence and a career within festival operations, • Performance based bonuses, • Regularly arranged social occasions, • Employee Assistance Programme - free therapy sessions and financial support, • Slick and fun online and in-person training with rewards for learning and growing, • Regular 1-2-1 time with your manager for good things and challenges, • Festival starter pack - camping equipment, uniform, essentials and more, • Access to some of the biggest and best festivals in the UK, • A creative, ambitious and collaborative environment, • Seriously experienced team - with lots of support and knowledge to soak up, • Work with some well known international guest residents at pop-ups, • Opportunity to build experience and exposure with events, catering, festivals, pop-ups or restaurants, with one team.

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  • Festival & Catering Manager
    Festival & Catering Manager
    15 days ago
    £17–£19 hourly
    Full-time
    London

    About the role We are looking for an experienced Festival & Catering Manager to join our growing team for the 2026 summer season and beyond. This is a full-time role spanning both our festival operations — which peak during the summer months and may take you to some of the most scenic parts of the UK — and our year-round event and corporate catering services across Greater London. Working closely with the founder you will oversee operations from planning through to delivery, ensuring smooth, professional and high-energy service on site. At Smashing Plates, we serve fresh, vibrant Greek street food and take pride in delivering food that is fast, high-quality and full of flavour. We trade at some of the UK’s leading festivals and events are proud members of Kerb, London’s leading street food collective. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, understands festival and event logistics, and enjoys leading teams on the ground. We are building a long-term team as the company continues to grow, with exciting plans ahead. Don’t hesitate and apply if Key responsibilities • Running the day-to-day operation of festival and event food units, including setup, service and close-down, • Leading, supporting and motivating your team to deliver consistent food quality and excellent customer service, • Planning rotas and coordinating staffing levels across events and festivals using the company software, • Managing stock, ordering, wastage and costs in line with operational targets, • Ensuring food safety, hygiene standards, health & safety and EHO compliance at all times, • Overseeing daily opening and closing procedures, including cash-ups and reporting, • Coordinating festival build, setup, pack-down and equipment management, • Liaising with other team leaders, event organisers and suppliers, • Working closely with the central production unit (CPU), warehouse and operations team to manage stock flow and logistics, • Communicating clearly with the team on the ground to ensure smooth service during busy trading periods, • Reporting weekly on performance, staffing, compliance, stock and upcoming operational needs; make specific recommendations and assist in continuously improving performance, • Opportunity to grow into a bigger role as the company grows Requirements We are looking for someone who is hands-on, energetic and ready to lead from the front. • Proven experience working in festivals, street food operations or large-scale events, • Experience managing or supervising festival units, concessions or high-volume food operations, • Passion for delivering excellent customer service — from delighting individual customers to executing large office catering orders on time, • Comfortable working in fast-paced, high-pressure trading environments, • Fluent English required, with the ability to communicate clearly with team members, customers and event organisers, • Ability to motivate, train and support teams during busy shifts, • Strong organisational and leadership skills, • Calm, solutions-focused mindset when things get busy, • Level 3 Food Hygiene certification (or willingness to obtain min Level 2), • Full UK driving licence, comfortable driving vans under 7.5 tonnes, • A willingness to work weekends, festivals and outdoor events What we offer • Permanent, full-time role with real opportunities for growth and progression within the company, • Above London Living Wage pay, with performance-based bonuses, • Average ~40 hours per week across the summer season, with peak activity between May and September, • Opportunities to work at some of the UK’s biggest and best festivals and events, • A supportive, positive and ambitious company culture, • A collaborative team with deep experience in hospitality, events and street food, • A creative and fast-growing business where your ideas and contributions matter, • Offers across hospitality via partners schemes For strong performers in this role, there will be opportunities to expand responsibilities and grow your career within Smashing Plates as the business continues to scale. If you're passionate about great food, exciting events and creating memorable customer experiences, we’d love to hear from you.

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  • Festival Crew - UK Wide!
    Festival Crew - UK Wide!
    3 days ago
    £12.71–£17 hourly
    Full-time
    Whitehall, Westminster

    DOME creates exciting, high-energy places where people come together, spanning nationwide festivals, meanwhile spaces on the Southbank, pop-ups, catering, and events across London, alongside our two Truffle Burger restaurants in central London. We design, deliver, and operate vibrant, food-led destinations, working with our own in-house brands and a curated network of national and international partners. Our brands are quick-service and crowd-led, known for decadent, delicious and creative menus. By bringing together independent concepts under one roof, we create memorable, high-impact experiences that activate spaces and attract diverse audiences. Our teams span six street food brands within an immersive, traveling food hall across two floors. Each quick-service food brand operates from its own converted kitchen unit and is run by a close-knit team of around 10 people. You'll be part of a smaller team focused on one brand, while also working alongside a larger, collaborative food hall team. We're looking for • Experienced festival + quick-service pros only -- you must have worked on food units at speed and volume., • Available full-time for the full season (May--September 2026)., • Full legal right to work in the UK for full-time work., • Confident, resourceful, and ready for an intense, unforgettable summer! • Unit Managers -- kitchen/chef-manager background, people-focused, on top of every moving part., • Supervisors -- able to run shifts, manage 6--11 staff, support managers with admin., • Line Cooks -- fast, clean, organised; grill experience essential., • Front of House -- manage massive queues, know the menu, deliver energetic, memorable service. You can expect • Big, fast, high adrenaline fuelled shifts - typically double shifts., • Camping, travelling, and working alongside your team all summer., • Major UK festivals from London to the South Coast and Manchester to Glasgow., • A summer of music, connections, great food and serious graft. What we provide • Camping equipment and accommodation (camper vans welcome), • Competitive pay for seasoned festival workers, • Sales-based bonuses If you thrive in fast service, love festivals, and can commit to the whole season --- we want to hear from you, wherever you are in the UK!

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  • Festival Supervisor
    Festival Supervisor
    7 days ago
    £15–£17 hourly
    Full-time
    Whitehall, Westminster

    At Dome we are proud to be pushing out some of the best street food in London on the Southbank, and at major London and UK Wide Music Festivals. We are: Truffle Burger, Frank's Hot Dogs, Lucky's Hot Chicken, Meraki Greek Wraps, Okko Katsu, Papa Tacco's, and much more. We also work with some much loved street food brands from around the world, who we host at our guest residency series on the Southbank. We have many other projects and events around London alongside our two cult favourite Truffle Burger restaurants in Soho and Marylebone. We're looking for Supervisors to join us at UK Wide Festivals and our Southbank project. Join one of 6 brands or help us host international guest brands. Our Supervisors support the Unit Manager with the day to day running of the unit, making sure menu items look great and taste great, our team are happy and safe and deliver great customer service. Our menus are small, simple and super indulgent. You: • You're charismatic, kind and want to have a seriously busy and fun Summer full of new experiences, • You're looking for growth and development and a career in street food operations, festivals or events, • You have experience in quick-service or food retail, restaurants, food markets and festivals, • You get stuck in and are willing to help anyone on your team, • Our queues get seriously long- you can stay cool when things get going, • You love good food, good music and Summery festival vibes, • You want to give customers the best and keep standards high in a casual environment, • Looking for full-time or flexible hours The season will run from mid-April to mid-September, with ideally full-time availability. Availability to work Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday's fairly consistently throughout the Summer is a must! We will keep going through the Autumn and Winter Seasons, with plenty of permanent availability for those who smash the Summer! More good stuff! • Access to incredible festivals and events with opportunities to see some headliners whilst not on shift!, • Fun, friendly, casual and seriously experienced team, • Rota's given way in advance for you to plan your time off throughout the season's, • Really good quality and style uniform provided, • Generous paid breaks, • Free food and drink on shift, • Award Winning Employee Assistance Program to support your health and wellbeing, • Bonus scheme for all team members - whatever your level Truffle Burger was founded in 2018. What began as a simple burger, trading from a van around London, grew into a cult favourite. The business has expanded from pop-ups, festivals, international collaborations and restaurants into a recognised brand with an ever increasing following to become DOME; a diverse portfolio and offering. As we continue to grow our teams, projects, ideas and national and international presence, we stay true to what made Truffle Burger special from day one.

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  • Experienced Pizza Chefs
    Experienced Pizza Chefs
    1 month ago
    £16–£17 hourly
    Part-time
    London

    We are looking for experienced, passionate Pizza Chefs to join our teams (in Battersea Park, Clapham Common and Lincoln's Inn Fields) for our busy spring/summer season! Our pizza dough is made in-house by our team of talented bakers, and our pizza chefs create delicious, seasonal toppings to complement the fabulous crispy bases! We opened our first cafe in 2016 and quickly built a fantastic reputation in Battersea Park. In 2021, we launched our second site on Clapham Common, and in 2024 we opened our third cafe in Lincoln’s Inn Fields. We are known for our signature menus of thoughtfully crafted cafe-style dishes, bringing a fresh, seasonal and innovative approach to London’s cafe scene. As a pizza chef, you will be running your own section and will be responsible for prepping toppings and garnishes, as well as making the pizzas during service. Consistency and quality are key to our production. It is essential that you are well organised, with a keen eye for detail and consistency, to be able to maintain our high standards. You will work closely with Front of House, Kitchen, Bakery and KPs - we are one big family team at Pear Tree Cafe and we like everyone to be involved! Requirements: • ability to work in a busy kitchen service, • quality assurance, • attention to detail and consistency, • health, safety and hygiene, • compliance with statutory regulations and legislation, • minimum of 1 year as a pizza chef, • creativity, bringing new ideas to the table, • boundless energy and enthusiasm, • positive “can-do” attitude, • availability between now and September, • weekend availability (as a park cafe, weekends are our busiest periods, so weekend availability is a must!) If this sounds like the perfect job for you, please get in touch!

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  • Festival Crew
    Festival Crew
    1 month ago
    £17 hourly
    Full-time
    London

    Join DOME on Tour – Summer 2026 as we hit the biggest music festivals across the UK with our brands: Truffle Burger, Frank* Hot Dogs, Meraki Greek, Okko Katsu and Lucky’s Chicken. Twelve teams. 7 people per team. Huge crowds, huge volume, huge fun. DOME creates exciting, high-energy places where people come together, spanning nationwide festivals, meanwhile spaces on the Southbank, pop-ups, catering, and events across London, alongside our two Truffle Burger restaurants in central London. We design, deliver, and operate vibrant, food-led destinations, working with our own in-house brands and a curated network of national and international partners. Our brands are quick-service and crowd-led, known for decadent, delicious and creative menus. By bringing together independent concepts under one roof, we create memorable, high-impact experiences that activate spaces and attract diverse audiences. Each summer, we build dedicated teams to work across London’s biggest and best-loved festivals, running experience-led food halls with our six in-house brands. What begins in London’s street-food scene becomes a full festival season, working alongside a large team to build vibrant food spaces and deliver high-energy service to huge crowds. Festival life is fast-paced and demanding, with long shifts and big volumes, but it’s also hugely rewarding. You’ll work closely with your team throughout the summer, sharing late nights, headline artists, crew access, and the kind of moments and friendships that only come from festival life. It’s hard work, high adrenaline, and completely unforgettable — a season you’ll remember long after the final service. We’re looking for • Experienced festival + quick-service pros only – you must have worked on food units at speed and volume., • Available full-time for the full season (May–September 2026)., • Full legal right to work in the UK for full-time work., • Confident, resourceful, and ready for an intense, unforgettable summer!, • Unit Managers – kitchen/chef-manager background, people-focused, on top of every moving part., • Supervisors – able to run shifts, manage 6–11 staff, support managers with admin., • Line Cooks – fast, clean, organised; grill experience essential., • Front of House – manage massive queues, know the menu, deliver energetic, memorable service. You can expect • Full time - permanent roles - career progression when the Summer ends., • Big, fast, high adrenaline fueled shifts - typically double shifts., • Camping, travelling, and working alongside your team all summer., • Major UK festivals from London to the South Coast and Manchester to Glasgow., • A summer of music, connections, great food and serious graft. What we provide • Camping equipment and accommodation (camper vans welcome), • Uniform & training, • Competitive pay for seasoned festival workers, • Sales-based bonuses If you thrive in fast service, love festivals, and can commit to the whole season - apply now!

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  • Operations & Lead Housekeeper – Boutique Stays (Chessington)
    Operations & Lead Housekeeper – Boutique Stays (Chessington)
    2 months ago
    £30000–£38000 yearly
    Full-time
    Chessington

    Pay: £30,000.00-£38,000.00 per year Job Description: Please read carefully before applying. This is a hands-on role. We operate a small portfolio of high-end boutique accommodation in the Chessington area and are looking for a hands-on Operations & Lead Housekeeper to take full ownership of day-to-day operations. This role includes cleaning, laundry, ironing, basic maintenance, weekend work, and occasional out-of-hours guest communication. There is a base salary of £16,200 (£1350 per month) and then a share of revenue (also paid monthly). So good perfomance, ownership and care for customer will increase pay. ⸻ Key Responsibilities • Personally clean and prepare two accommodation units to a high standard, • Manage laundry, ironing, linen organisation, and keep the laundry room tidy, • Order new linen and supplies proactively, • Carry out basic maintenance and repairs and arrange specialist contractors when needed, • Find, manage, schedule, and quality-check part-time cleaner(s) as required, • Ensure cleaning standards are maintained across all units and step in when cover is needed Working Pattern (Important) • This is not a 9–5, Monday–Friday role, • Workload is seasonal: summer is significantly busier than winter, • Holiday time cannot usually be taken during busy periods and should be planned for quieter months, • There will be quieter days with no changeovers, where you may work from home handling guest messages and admin, • Weekend availability is essential (weekends are almost always booked) Requirements (Essential) • Lives locally to Chessington (or very close by), • Own car required, • Experience in housekeeping, hospitality, or property operations, • Comfortable with hands-on cleaning and physical work, • Confident organising and managing other cleaners ⸻ About You • Takes pride in making spaces look flawless, welcoming, and beautifully presented, • Loves making guests feel comfortable, relaxed, and genuinely cared for, • Is kind, sincere, and a great fit for a small, friendly team culture, • Is reliable, punctual, and proactive, with the confidence to take initiative, • Enjoys responsibility and ownership rather than rigid routines Hours & Pay • Typically 25–35 hours per week (varies with bookings), • Flexible working pattern depending on occupancy This role suits someone who values flexibility, ownership, and high standards rather than fixed office hours. Please only apply if you are comfortable with all aspects described above. Ready to Join? If this role sounds like a good fit, we’d love to hear from you. We offer a paid trial with immediate start, giving you the opportunity to experience the role firsthand and ensure it’s the right fit for both sides. Thank you for taking the time to read the advert — we look forward to reviewing your application. Kind regards, Matt

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