Head Chef

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.

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