Kitchen Manager - Sheffield

TGI Friday's; South Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

TGI Friday's is seeking a Kitchen Manager to lead our kitchen team in South Yorkshire. This role involves managing inventory, ensuring brand standards, and driving sales while fostering a supportive work environment. Ideal candidates will have previous kitchen leadership experience and strong interpersonal skills, with a commitment to maintaining high standards of food quality and guest satisfaction.

Benefits

Guaranteed 48-hour contract

Annual incentive programme

Enhanced pension benefits

Optional Private Medical Insurance

Access to the Aspire Leadership Development Programme

Unlimited access to 50% off our food menu

Recognition for great performance

Generous Refer a Friend scheme

Wagestream - Track and manage your pay

Reward programmes and long service awards

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a kitchen leadership role.
• Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of kitchen operations and health and safety regulations.

Responsibilities

• Lead and inspire kitchen team performance.
• Manage team recruitment and development.
• Ensure adherence to brand standards for food quality and service.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Interpersonal Skills

Stock Management

Job description

We don't need an introduction. You've heard of us before. Legendary Red and white stripes. Clutter filling our restaurants to the brim. A history dating back to 1965 New York City.

Tom Cruise didn't teach himself to flair in Cocktail, we did.

The Long Island ice tea wasn't created on its own, we created it.

Loaded potato skins..? Yep, it was us!

This isn't just a job, this is a way of life. This is family. We live and breathe our TGI Fridays values.

In here, we work hard, we want to succeed, we want to progress...and we want to party.

In here, every day is Friday. A TGI Friday's...

Role summary

As the Kitchen Manager, you'll lead our kitchen team, manage inventory, and enforce brand standards to ensure an exceptional dining experience for our guests while fostering a supportive and high-performing work environment. You'll work closely with the General Manager to drive sales, maintain brand standards, achieve business objectives, and enhance guest satisfaction.

Key objectives

Lead and inspire kitchen team performance to meet or exceed targets while maintaining TGI Friday's standards and ensuring kitchen and store performance aligns with company strategy, emphasizing People, Guest, Sales, Profit, Operations, Health & Safety, and Property.

Responsibilities

• Manage team recruitment, development, and succession planning, ensuring a culture of recognition and career advancement.
• Conduct team meetings to discuss priorities and daily targets, ensuring everyone is focused on achieving the day's objectives.
• Set clear performance expectations, provide constructive feedback, and manage poor performance consistently.
• Ensure adherence to brand standards for food quality, appearance, and service, turning dissatisfied guests into returning customers.
• Drive top-line sales through engagement, using our TGI Fridays values to lead your team to success.
• Monitor financial performance closely, exercising cost control measures and strategies to optimize profits through meticulous planning and informed decision-making, while managing food stock, minimizing waste, and optimizing food margins through effective purchasing and inventory management.
• Oversee all aspects of kitchen operations and front of house operations when required, ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations. Maintain cleanliness and safety standards, conduct health and safety checks, and ensure proper security procedures.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a kitchen leadership role.
• Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of kitchen operations, health and safety regulations, and stock management. (You will complete an internal management training programme with TGI Fridays upon joining for your professional development and to understand the Fridays Kitchen).
• Flexibility to work evenings and weekends.

Anything is possible at Fridays, and there's genuinely no better time to join our family. Start your journey with Fridays today!

• Guaranteed 48-hour contract.
• Annual incentive programme.
• Enhanced pension benefits.
• Optional Private Medical Insurance.
• Access to the Aspire Leadership Development Programme.
• Attendance at the Leadership Conference.
• Development programmes supporting and fast-tracking career progression.
• Apprenticeship programmes available at all levels.
• Unlimited access to 50% off our food menu for employees and up to 5 of their family and friends.
• Recognition for great performance aligned with our TGI Fridays Values.
• A generous Refer a Friend scheme.
• Wagestream - Track, access, and manage your pay at any time.
• Hospitality Action membership.
• Reward programmes, long service awards, staff recognition, and incentives.

About us

In our Fridays Family, we celebrate people of all stripes.

We believe diversity and inclusion are essential for a successful, happy, and thriving environment, which is why we live and breathe our TGI Fridays values of Pride, Passion, Personality, and Protection.

Through our "Pridays" forum, we have launched an LGBTQ+ charity partnership. We hold Women in Business and Disability forums—open for all to join and be part of. We are an equal opportunities employer.

That Fridays feeling is freedom, excitement, lightness, and acceptance. Uncontrollable laughter. Time to do you. To let go. To truly be yourself. No judgment, no pressure, no worries.

And remember - "No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else." - P.T Barnum

Candidates must be over the compulsory school leaving age to apply for this position.

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