Cafe Chef

Retail Human Resources plc; West End; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading café under Retail Human Resources plc seeks a Chef to enhance our lively kitchen. As part of the team, you will prepare and deliver exceptional meals while maintaining service standards, fostering a positive atmosphere, and ensuring food safety. Join us in creating memorable experiences for our customers.

Benefits

Colleague Clubcard with discounts

Flexible working options after day one

Retirement savings plan

Life Assurance

Access to wellbeing services

Exclusive deals and discounts

Uniform provided

28 days holiday including Bank Holidays

Qualifications

• Experience in a busy hospitality environment.
• Commitment to excellent customer service.
• Ability to remain productive under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for food storage and preparation.
• Delivering timely, high-quality food to customers.
• Ensuring health and safety regulations are met.

Skills

Customer service

Planning

Communication

Organizational 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 will include preparation, food storage, and delivering 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.

You will be responsible for:

1. Storage and preparation in line with food safety and hygiene regulations.
2. Delivering timely, tasty food to customers while maintaining great standards and food served to specifications.
3. Identifying new and better ways of working to keep improving services for customers and colleagues.
4. Ensuring health and safety and food safety requirements are met.
5. Understanding the key drivers of our service plan and delivering to the required standard.

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 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.

What's in it for you:

• 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 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 from diverse backgrounds.

About us:

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is 'Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day'. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers; it means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, communities, and the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. We celebrate diversity and recognize the value it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and all colleagues have equal opportunities. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.

We have recently announced a move towards a more blended working week – combining office and remote work. Our offices will continue to be places to connect, collaborate, and innovate. Please discuss with us how this can work for you.

NOTE: If successful, your offer will be conditional upon providing your bank details on your agreed start date.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader and are committed to an accessible recruitment process. For support, visit https://www.tesco-careers.com/accessibility.