Cafe Chef

Tesco; Barnsley; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits in a lively café kitchen at a leading retailer. As a Chef, you'll leverage your hospitality experience to prepare delicious meals while ensuring food safety and hygiene standards are met. This role is perfect for those who thrive in high-pressure environments and are committed to providing excellent customer service. Join a dynamic team that values inclusivity and supports your growth, making every day a chance to shine. Be part of a workplace that celebrates diversity and offers a fantastic work-life balance, along with great benefits to enhance your career journey.

Benefits

Colleague Clubcard

Flexible Working

Retirement Savings Plan

Life Assurance

Free Wellbeing Services

Exclusive Deals and Discounts

Uniform Provided

28 Days Holiday

Qualifications

• Experience in a busy hospitality environment is essential.
• Strong commitment to customer service and team motivation.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and store food in compliance with safety regulations.
• Deliver high-quality food and improve service standards.
• Support a respectful and inclusive work environment.

Skills

Hospitality Experience

Customer Service

Planning and Organization

Communication Skills

Initiative

Job description

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Alongside a fantastic work-life balance, we offer excellent benefits that help make The Cafe a great place to work. These include but aren’t limited to:

• Colleague Clubcard after 3 months service - 10% increasing to 15% after every pay day for a four-day period, off most purchases at Tesco.
• Request flexible working from day one.
• Retirement savings plan.
• Life Assurance.
• Access to free wellbeing services with a range of resources to support your mind, body, and life.
• An exclusive deals and discounts website saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out, and utility bills for the home.
• Uniform provided and policies to support you for all of life’s moments, big and small.
• Holiday starting at 28 days (Including Bank Holidays).
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds.

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Chef with hospitality experience to join one of our lively café kitchens. Your daily operations of the kitchen would include preparation, food storage, and delivering delicious food that keeps our customers happy, satisfied, and coming back for more.

You’ll bring your experience of working in a similarly busy environment to Tesco, where you’ll become a café menu expert keen to share your knowledge with the team around you. From health and safety to limiting food waste, you’ll understand the importance of every detail and inspire your team to deliver outstanding food quality and speed of service.

Tesco Cafés are a place to get on. We believe in creating a great environment for colleagues to work and providing opportunities for everyone to be at their best. With your previous experience, you’ll help to deliver skills as you build an inclusive place where people feel respected, safe, and valued.

Please note that you need to be 18 or over to apply for this role.

You will be responsible for

Whilst specific responsibilities will be dependent upon the changing needs of Tesco as a business, the following provides an overview of the role’s key responsibilities:

• Storage and preparation in line with food safety and hygiene regulations.
• Deliver timely, tasty food to customers whilst maintaining great standards.
• Identifying new and better ways of working to keep improving services for customers and colleagues.
• Ensuring health and safety and food safety requirements are met.
• Understanding the key drivers of our service plan and delivering to the standard required.

You will need

• A background in hospitality.
• Experience of remaining productive in a high-pressure environment.
• A commitment to excellent customer service.
• A desire to create an inclusive work environment where colleagues feel respected, safe, and valued.
• Good planning and organization skills.
• Confidence using your initiative to identify opportunities to improve our ways of working or adapt to different situations.
• Excellent communication skills to motivate and support a growing team.

About us

With 316 cafés across the country and counting, our teams work closely to make sure that the customer experience is to the best standard; no two days are ever the same! Tesco Cafés are a great place to work, with a genuine family feel - truly a place to get on.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco Café where everyone is welcome and truly feels able to be themselves. In our cafés, we not only celebrate diversity, but we strive to create a workforce that reflects our customers not only here in the UK but worldwide.

We know life looks a little different for each of us. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome chats about flexible working. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We’re proud to have been accredited as a Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

On occasions where we have high volumes of applicants, some roles may close earlier than the advertised end date in order for us to manage all of the applicants appropriately.