Head Chef

Job Description

The role:

Global Talent 2020 are proudly working with our exciting Scottish based Restaurant, Bars and Hotels client for their well-established venue in Glasgow seeking a talented Head Chef to drive their kitchen operations.

The operator currently owns 24+ sites across Scotland in their portfolio and is an established and extremely reputable company on the circuit, boasting restaurants, hotels, bars and cafes from Aberdeen, St Andrews, Glasgow to Edinburgh.

The specific venue is situated in a desirable location right in the city centre of Glasgow and is a premium bar and restaurant setting with small plates and a very popular brunch menu served Thursday – Sunday.

The ideal candidate must be able to run daily kitchen operations as well and have the creative flair to come up with brunch specials and plan for the weeks ahead.

There is a solid team in place FOH and BOH, with this candidate stepping into a well oiled operation with a brand new kitchen and spacious setting to work every day.

Benefits

• Generous tronc structure (approx £5,000 annually)
• Bonus package based on performance, up to 30% paid quarterly.
• Staff discount ranging from 25% to 50% on all venues.
• X2 Death in Service.
• Employee Assistant Programme.
• Extra annual leave days gathered through service.

The person:

Our reputable client at Global Talent 2020, is looking for a creative leader in the kitchen to maintain and build on the venue’s success. The responsibilities include managing the team of around five, setting up the kitchen to success, adhering to the company brand standards, H&S standards and continuing the high reputation of the venue.

The ideal Head Chef candidate must have had prior experience of producing fresh quality food and had experience of volume restaurants in the high street space. You will need to be highly approachable with your personality, as you will be interacting with other senior department heads, regional management, and with all levels of the site diverse teams.

Our client requires an ideal Head Chef, that is keen to train, coach and mentor their teams, evolve food services, deliver consistent menus and food concepts, and further the reputation of the business as an Employer of choice.

As the Head Chef, you must be proven to be flexible, and highly adaptive in all your approaches to your team, and with delivery of concepts developed with the company Executive Chef.

As Head Chef, you must also be someone that not only has strong all-round culinary abilities, great presentation skills, possess food innovation skills, but someone that also is an effective manager of the kitchen environment, health, and safety, COSHH, RIDDOR, recruitment, training, and mentoring of others, and possess strong cost & budgetary control skill sets of their area.

Interested? Apply today, and let s talk .