Cafe Chef

Tesco Retail; Llandudno; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Tesco Cafs are seeking a Chef with hospitality experience to join our lively caf kitchens. You will handle daily kitchen operations, including preparation and storage, delivering delicious food that keeps customers happy and coming back for more.

You will bring experience from busy environments and help to share knowledge with the team, focusing on health and safety, waste reduction, and food quality. This is a great place to grow as a leader within our inclusive Tesco Cafs family.

Qualifications

• Background in hospitality
• Experience working in a busy environment
• Commitment to excellent customer service
• Desire to create an inclusive work environment
• Good planning and organisation skills
• Ability to take initiative and adapt to situations
• Excellent communication to motivate a team

Responsibilities

• Storage and preparation in line with food safety and hygiene regulations
• Deliver timely, tasty food to customers while maintaining standards
• Identify new ways to improve services for customers and colleagues
• Ensure health and safety and food safety requirements are met
• Understand service plan drivers and deliver to standard

Skills

Hospitality experience

High-pressure environment

Customer service

Inclusive team culture

Planning & organisation

Initiative & adaptability

Strong communication

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Chef with hospitality experience to join one of our lively caf 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. Its all part of making every day a little better for them, and us.

Youll bring your experience of working in a similarly busy environment to Tesco, where youll become a caf menu expert keen to share your knowledge with the team around you. From health and safety to limiting food waste, youll 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 Cafs 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, youll help to deliver skills as you build an inclusive place where people feel respected, safe and valued. In doing so, youll 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 roles 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 cafs 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 Cafs 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 Caf where everyone is welcome and truly feels able to be themselves.

In our cafs, 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. Thats 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. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer.

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.