Breakfast Chef

Crafted; England; Remote; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Crafted is seeking a Breakfast Chef to lead the kitchen team and deliver an ingredient-led, seasonal menu that reflects our values of thoughtful sourcing and hospitality. You’ll run daily kitchen operations, maintain high standards, and collaborate closely with senior kitchen leadership to ensure smooth service and guest satisfaction.

You’ll bring leadership, a passion for food, and a proactive approach to building a positive, ambitious kitchen culture as we grow our Crafted brand.

Qualifications

• Experience in a kitchen team, ideally in a boutique hotel, restaurant, or lifestyle-focused hospitality setting.
• Proven ability to deliver quality, consistency, and creative input under pressure.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate, mentor and develop others.
• A collaborative, low-ego approach to working with front of house, suppliers and leadership.
• Solid knowledge of kitchen operations, food safety, cost management and sustainability best practice.
• A genuine love of food, hospitality, and creating memorable guest experiences.

Responsibilities

• Inspire the kitchen team in delivering a seasonal, produce-driven menu aligned with the Crafted ethos.
• Manage daily kitchen operations, including prep, service, ordering, stock control, and health & safety compliance.
• Work closely with the Exec Chef, Exec Sous Chef and Restaurant Manager to ensure smooth coordination between kitchen and front of house.
• Champion sustainability and local sourcing wherever possible, building strong supplier relationships.
• Uphold high standards of cleanliness, organisation and attention to detail throughout all service periods

Skills

Kitchen leadership

Team collaboration

Quality and consistency under pressure

Food safety and cost management

Hospitality mindset and guest focus

Love of food and hospitality

Job description

We’re not hiring people to fill a seat or add to ourheadcount. We’re hiring people to craft our culture, ethos and success. This isa big deal for us, and we know it’s a big deal for you: a new role defines howyou spend your days, who you spend them with, and what your future lookslike.

Together, we’ll shape each other’s entire trajectory.That deserves thoughtfulness, empathy and respect. It’s why this jobdescription is deliberately detailed. We want you to know exactly what you’restepping into. The challenges, the opportunities, the quirks of the role, andthe kind of impact you’ll have.

Us

Crafted is a series of life-friendly hotels and spaceswhere guests can be themselves and fill up on the good stuff: nature, food,wellbeing, craft, people and play. We hope to open several hotels in the comingyears, with our first coming in summer 2025: Crafted at Powdermills, EastSussex.

More specifics will follow as planning and pieces fallinto place. So, for now, here’s the sentiment behind Crafted…

It’s easy to get overwhelmed by life. To switch toautopilot and go through the motions. We’re busy but not on the things we lovedoing, we spend more time on our phone, and we misplace our bounce andspark.

We all need a tune up now and again. To escape tosomewhere that makes us feel totally at ease. Not so we can step away fromlife, but so we can come back to it. This is where Crafted comes in.

Our aim is to create a network of connected destinationsthat people come back to again and again because it’s where they feel goodabout life. Somewhere to work on life, come together, and connect locally.

You

Crafted’s culture will be inclusive and agile but withambitious goals and a start-up mentality. We need to execute brilliantly fromday one and every team member will contribute wherever they are able.

As Breakfast chef you’ll be supporting thekitchen team in delivering a bold, ingredient-led menu that reflects our values— thoughtful sourcing, generous hospitality, and a real sense of place. You’llbe responsible for shaping a food offering that balances consistency with creativity,running a tight ship day-to-day while nurturing a positive, ambitious kitchenculture. This is a hands-on role for a chef who leads from the front, worksclean and calm, and wants to be part of building something special from theground up.

That said, as Breakfast Chef, your primary responsibilities will be to:

• Inspire the kitchen team in delivering a seasonal, produce-drivenmenu aligned with the Crafted ethos.
• Manage daily kitchen operations, including prep, service, ordering,stock control, and health & safety compliance.
• Work closely with the Exec Chef, Exec Sous Chef and RestaurantManager to ensure smooth coordination between kitchen and front of house.
• Champion sustainability and local sourcing wherever possible,building strong supplier relationships.
• Upholdhigh standards of cleanliness, organisation and attention to detail throughoutall service periods

We’re looking for someone with:

• Proven experience in a kitchen team, ideally in a boutique hotel,restaurant, or lifestyle-focused hospitality setting.
• A track record of delivering quality, consistency, and creativeinput under pressure.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate, mentor anddevelop others.
• A collaborative, low-ego approach to working with front of house,suppliers and leadership.
• Solid knowledge of kitchen operations, food safety, cost managementand sustainability best practice.
• A genuine love of food, hospitality, and creating memorable guestexperiences.

Together

We hire people with personality who have a desire tocontinuously learn. Each person should bring themselves to work to shape ourculture and keep us real, interesting, and original.