The opportunity:
Global Talent 2020 are proudly working with our nationwide restaurant client for their new, well positioned venue in the heart of Newcastle. Our client is recruiting for a Sous Chef to lead and join their exciting new Kitchen operations and assist in the opening of the venue in February 2025.
This modern and progressive Asian street food brand have 45+ sites across the UK already and have a brilliant reputation for their authentic food and flavours.
95% of the food is freshly made on site and the excellent menu is prepped daily, with a variety of techniques used to bring the wonderful flavours of Vietnam to your guests. Experience in Asian food is not required but would be beneficial.
The ideal candidate needs to be a hands-on leader who is extremely passionate about fresh produce along with the willingness to train and develop your team around you.
The benefits:
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Top-tier pay and benefits package.
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Service charge shared throughout the teams.
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Management Bonus schemes.
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Complete training programme to increase your skills.
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A culture of internal progression and promotion.
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Fantastic environment to express yourself and drive your career forward.
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Free meals on every shift.
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50% discount on food & drink for you and 5 friends.
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Amazing staff parties.
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Private GP helpline and access to private prescriptions for you and your family.
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Access up to 50% of your pay as you earn it instead of waiting for payday.
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Up to £500 bonus if you refer a friend and they pass probation.
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28 days paid holiday, pension scheme and much more.
The Role:
As the Sous Chef, you must be proven to be flexible, and highly adaptive in all your approaches to your team, your food ethos, and also with delivery of fresh concepts developed with the Head Chef.
As Sous Chef, you must also be someone that not only has strong all-round culinary abilities, great presentation skills, someone that also is an effective manager of the kitchen environment, health, and safety, COSHH, RIDDOR, recruitment, and possess strong cost & budgetary control skill sets of their area.
The person:
Our passionate client at Global Talent 2020, is looking for a real leader in the kitchen, someone who will harness the talent of the small team, utilise the brand-new fantastic kitchen facilities to their advantage, and provide memorable popular food experiences for its customers, and put the location on the map in Newcastle, as a noted place to dine all day.
The ideal Sous Chef candidate must have had prior experience of producing fresh quality food, to a minimum 1 rosette culinary level standard, and had experience of a volume high street restaurant OR boutique hotel on their CV. You will need to be highly approachable with your personality, as you will be interacting with other senior company heads, the customers, and with all levels of the site diverse teams.
Our client requires an ideal Sous Chef, that is keen to train, coach and mentor their team, evolve the fresh food services, deliver consistent quality menus, daily seasonal specials, innovative food concepts, and further the reputation of the business in the Newcastle marketplace.
You will be working with a local quality focused business, delivering fresh food creations to high consistent standards through your team. Working with a talented bunch of people, utilising the best local fresh produce, excellent work/life balance, a brand-new kitchen, and good remuneration package and tronc for the duties required at the site.
Interested? Apply today, and let’s talk
