Breakfast Chef

Abode Canterbury; Canterbury; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Service charge and tips on top

Staff meals on duty

Employee Assistance Programme

Staff discounts across hotels (25% off

Staff milestones rewards

Job summary

ABode Canterbury is seeking a Chef De Partie to join our stylish 72-bedroom boutique hotel on Canterbury High Street. You’ll be part of a passionate team, serving delicious dishes and contributing to a high standard of hospitality.

Working in a dynamic kitchen, you’ll run your own section, develop knife skills, and learn from senior chefs while staying up to date with allergen training and kitchen safety. Flexible and team-focused, with good opportunities in a boutique hotel group.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar environment preferred.

Responsibilities

• You will be working as part of a passionate team of chefs and play a crucial role in serving delicious dishes for our guests.
• You will run your own section of the kitchen and showcase knife skills while learning from senior chefs.
• You will keep up to date with allergen training and ensure food is labelled and stored safely.
• You will contribute to a clean kitchen by being responsible for hygiene and organisation.

Job description

Location: ABode Canterbury is a stylish, four AA star 72-bedroom boutique hotel on Canterbury High Street, which houses our own restaurant brand, Brasserie ABode. For the commuters, Canterbury East and West train stations are just a few minutes’ walk away. SERVICE CHARGE-We pay our team service charge each month! This service charge all goes into one pot, and 100% of that service charge is then shared amongst all the team at the hotel-every penny received is paid out to the team. Service charge can be in the region of £115 a month (around £1375 per year) over and above base pay for a full time employee.

Come and join our team as a Chef De Partie and let your passion and personality shine

Our culture is important to us, and we encourage everyone in our teams to show thoughtfulness towards each other and our guests.

As a Chef De Partie, you will be working as part of a passionate team of chefs. You will play a crucial part of serving delicious dishes for our guests to enjoy.

This role would suit someone who has worked in a similar environment previously.

Check out some of the key points about the role:

• You’ll be working with fresh food,
  turning it into delicious dishes for our guests.
• Our CDP’s run their own section of the
  kitchen.
• As a skilled chef, you’ll get to really
  put those knife skills to the test, whilst learning new skills from our senior
  chefs along the way.
• We want to keep everyone safe, so you’ll
  need to keep up to date with the latest allergen training.
• Being one team, everyone in the kitchen
  is responsible for keeping it clean.
• Nobody wants out of date food, so
  labelling your food is important.
• As an experienced chef, we encourage you
  to share your knowledge with new, budding KP’s and Commis coming into the
  industry.

Work/life, or as it should be called life/work balance is important to us all, so we will always try to be fair with our rotas. We just ask that you can be flexible with us, so we can be flexible with you in return.

To say thank you, we have many perks

• Competitive pay – We are proud that
  everyone who joins our group gets a competitive a rate of pay, irrespective of age, plus you get service charge and tips on top.
• Treat yourself once in a while with lots
  of retail and hospitality perks through our Perkbox platform.
• Excellent discounts across our family of
  hotels – you will be entitled to 25% off food & beverage in our hotels
  plus we offer an amazing staff rate of £25 B&B per person across the group & your friends and family get special rates too.
• We understand it’s OK not to be OK, so we
  offer an externally run confidential helpline for any support you require about anything you might need as part of our Employee Assistance Programme.
• We sustain you physically too, meals when
  you are on duty are free.
• To be the best version of yourself, we encourage our teams to be curious. Everyone can learn and develop -
  our development pathways are unique to us and are the best in the business.
• We provide lots of opportunity to progress and move up – we have made hundreds of internal promotions, including to General Manager level.
• We like to say a special thank you for every year you are with us - our milestone awards include Champagne, afternoon tea, or dinner for you and someone special. When you reach the big milestones, you receive extra special gifts on top like longer hotel stays, extra days off and a unique gift especially chosen for you.

About our family of hotels

We bring a family of hotels together under one roof, ready to welcome guests with open arms, warm hearts and experiences that are simply memorable.

Each of our hotels are unique, individual, and quirky in personality. Quality is fundamental to everything we do, and it is the simple things that matter. We believe everyone should feel included, special and welcome, and that applies to our team and our guests.

We have very unique hotels in very special locations, from the award winning Gidleigh Park in Devon, the 900-year-old Amberley Castle to our cool city centre Abode Manchester set in a 19th century textile factory, two minutes from Piccadilly train station – to see the whole group, take a look here www.brownswordhotels.co.uk

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