Breakfast Chef

Harri; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 11,000 - 17,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hourly pay + Tronc share

Flexible shifts

Meal discounts for you and guests

Hotel discount for staff

Development program

Lifestyle card discounts (5,000+) }

Service awards

Birthday gift

Refer a friend incentive

Job summary

Upham Inns is seeking a Breakfast Chef in Milton Keynes to join our busy team. You will prepare and plate breakfast dishes with precision, work independently, and meet high standards of quality while maintaining fast-paced service levels.

You will train and coach junior staff, ensure health and safety compliance, and contribute to a friendly, customer-focused kitchen culture. Competitive shifts and benefits offered.

Qualifications

• At least 1 year experience as a Chef.
• Be able to work independently and multi-task.
• Able to work in a fast-paced, high-pressured environment.
• Weekend availability as required by business needs.
• Excellent culinary and presentation skills; strong communication.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and plate breakfast dishes efficiently according to menu specs.
• Prepare ingredients for senior chefs with attention to detail.
• Maintain high standards to ensure quality food for customers.
• Comply with health and safety regulations and hygiene standards.
• Coach and develop junior chefs; train other kitchen staff.
• Take direction from restaurant management.

Skills

Independent worker

Multi-tasking

Culinary experience

Weekend availability

Mentoring juniors

Strong communication

Right to work in UK

Culinary presentation

Job description

We are looking for an experienced and talented Breakfast Chef to join our fantastic business

What’s in it for you?

• Up to £12.50 per hour plus a share of Tronc (this can be up to £5000 per year)
• Flexible shift patterns
• Up to 33% off meals taken off duty for you and up to 6 guests
• 33% off our hotel accommodation & 20% for Friends and Family
• Development program with a clear pathway
• Access to the lifestyle card – which will provide you with instant access to over5,000 discountsacross all aspects of their lifestyle. With thousands of discounts covering local independents, national and online businesses, there are plenty of opportunities to save money. The lifestyle card is a100% free benefitfor our Upham Inn team members.
• Service Awards
• A Birthday Gift
• Refer a friend and Chef recruitment incentives of up to £1000

Breakfast chef Requirements:

• The ability to work well independently and multi-task.
• Experience in a similar role or a keen interest in pursuing a culinary career.
• The ability to work in a fast paced and high-pressured environment.
• Availability to work shifts, including weekends as per business needs.
• Be a strong Chef, with the ability to train, Coach and develop junior chefs
• At least 1 year experience as a Chef
• Great communication skills
• Right to Work in the UK
• Excellent culinary and presentation skills

Breakfast Chef Responsibilities:

• Preparing and plating up breakfast dishes in an efficient manner and using the menu specs provided.
• Preparing ingredients for senior chefs, ensuring great attention to detail for the menu specs provided.
• Working to a high standard to ensure customers receive the best quality food.
• Complying with all health and safety regulations and hygiene standards.
• Cooks guests' orders according to their preferences
• Employs food safety best practices and makes sure that all kitchen staff members do the same
• Acts with appropriate caution in a dangerous environment where there are knives and high-temperature surfaces
• Coaches other chef's and other members of the kitchen staff, so they perform at their best
• Takes direction and works with the restaurant's administrative team

What do we do?

We own a collection of beautiful and individual premium pubs across Southern England. Our pubs are in idyllic settings in country villages and towns, where we are proud to be the quality local of the area, serving high quality fresh pub food in a cozy pub ambience. Most of our pubs have some Charming Bedrooms as well. New to our growing family is Harper’s Steakhouse, a new premium American Steakhouse brand that we started rolling out last year.

It’s an exciting time to join us!

Upham Inns is growing, and we want you to grow with us and be part of our success. We’ve been busy investing in our business and we are seeing some great results. So, we want to continue to grow our pub family and we are looking to recruit passionate people into our team

We are looking for great people to join us

Our company is big enough to support you but small enough to care about your individual needs. We are a friendly, hands-on team who have a passion for running great pubs. We are always on the lookout for like-minded people who have the desire to work and grow with us.