Cafe Chef

TESCO UK; Gateshead; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Full time

Job summary

Tesco Cafés in the United Kingdom are seeking a Chef with hospitality experience to join our busy café kitchen. You will handle preparation, storage, and delivering tasty food while keeping customers happy and returning for more.

You'll apply your cafe-floor experience at Tesco, act as a café menu expert, ensure health and safety, reduce waste, and inspire the team to provide high-quality food and swift service in a supportive, inclusive environment.

Qualifications

• Hospitality background with cafe/kitchen experience.
• Able to maintain performance in a fast-paced setting.
• Commitment to excellent customer service.
• Aspire to foster an inclusive, respectful team environment.
• Strong planning and organisational skills.
• Proactive, adaptable mindset to improve ways of working.
• Excellent communication to motivate a growing team.

Responsibilities

• Storage and preparation in line with food safety and hygiene regulations.
• Deliver timely, tasty food to customers while upholding standards.
• Identify new and better ways of working to improve services.
• Meet health and safety requirements.
• Understand and deliver against the service plan standards.

Skills

Hospitality experience

High-pressure environment

Customer service

Inclusive team leadership

Planning and organisation

Initiative and adaptability

Communication skills

Job description

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 to deliver delicious food that keeps our customers happy, satisfied, and coming back for more. It’s all part of making every day a little better for them, and us.

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 - after all, no one tries harder for customers than us.

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. In doing so, you’ll grow as a leader and develop your skills and experience as part of our friendly team.

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

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 and measures:

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

• 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 organisation 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

With 329 cafés across the country and counting, our teams work closely to make sure that the customer experience is to the best standard and service; 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. Our aim is to attract and welcome a diverse range of applicants from all walks of life, offering many varying working patterns across our business and we would love to hear from you.

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.

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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. We will only be able to offer individual feedback to those candidates who attend an interview.