Fresh Food Preparation Assistant

Chilled Pubs; Walton-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing pub company near Walton-on-Trent is seeking a Fresh Food Preparation Assistant to join their team. The role involves ensuring food quality and safety, working at various food prep stations, and supporting deliveries. No prior kitchen experience is necessary, but a passion for food and teamwork is essential. Enjoy benefits like up to 70% discount at pubs and paid holidays.

Benefits

28 days paid holiday

Christmas and New Year’s Day off

Birthday paid day off

70% discount across all pubs

Career development opportunities

Wine Club discounts

Qualifications

• No previous experience required, beneficial if any.
• Excited to be part of the Chilled Pubs team.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with food safety processes.
• Check quality of fresh produce deliveries.
• Prepare food at appointed stations during shifts.
• Support team with deliveries to pubs.

Skills

Working with structure and processes

Attention to detail

Job description

Love working in the kitchen but hate the unsociable hours? A Position within our Central Hub could be perfect for you!

Based just on the outskirts of Walton-on-Trent, we have an incredible production kitchen which plays an integral role in ensuring the smooth running of our 7 pubs across the Midlands. The hub is an incredibly busy operation, covering all areas of food preparation process, including fresh produce, raw & cooked meats, and our delicious desserts. We need chefs with high attention to detail who can ensure quality and consistency across their designated areas.

Chilled Pubs are on the search for Fresh Food Preparation Assistant to join our ever-growing family. With ample opportunities on the horizon this could be the perfect company to evolve in your career.

Who are Chilled Pubs?

It all started back in 2007 when Loren agreed to Richards crazy dream, and they together purchased the Bulls Head in Repton. Fast forward 17 years and they have a thriving pub business. With 7 gorgeous sites, over 500 employees, an industry leading food & drink menu and just to be a bit different, 7 mascot alpacas.

Driven by their vision to become the top leading pub brand in the Midlands, they’re passionate about finding superstars to live and breathe their values and ensure all guests are truly wowed by their Chilled Pub experience. With no signs of slowing down, Richard and Loren are always on the lookout for their next project and would like to reach a portfolio of 20 pubs in the near future.

What the role entails?

• Food safety is a number 1 priority across Chilled Pubs. You must ensure our compliance processes are always followed.
• You will be essential in ensuring quality food is delivered to our pubs. This includes checking our fresh produce deliveries and removing any items which do not meet the required quality criteria.
• You will be assigned a particular station to work at for the duration of your shift, this could be the dessert station which involves making a variety of the Chilled Pubs puddings, including our home-made fresh gelato, cookie dough balls and sticky toffee puddings. The raw meat section, where you’d be responsible for the prep and packaging of different meats, including marinating, and assembling our hanging skewers, or the pizza section which involves the prep of all our toppings and sauces.
• You will need to support the Hub team with any deliveries, offloading and loading the vans ready for our twice daily pub drops.
• You may need to support the wider team with food prep in other sections, therefore you will need to be comfortable working with all food products.

Who are we looking for?

• No previous experience in the kitchen is essential however it would be very beneficial.
• Somebody who enjoys working with structure and processes. This role requires you to work within strict guidelines, adhering to food safety policies and ensuring consistency.
• Somebody who shares our passion for Chilled Pubs and is genuinely excited to be part of our team.

What’s in it for you?

• 28 days paid holiday.
• Christmas and New Year’s Day off, every year!
• Your birthday is a PAID DAY OFF
• Up to 70% discount across all Chilled Pubs
• A sociable team where you\'ll become part of the family.
• Instant access to Wage-Stream (you can access your salary early essentially)
• Monthly incentives, yearly ‘Dennis Awards’ dinners, and company wide competitions to win tickets to some of the biggest music shows in the UK.
• Pension scheme (opt in / out) available after 3 months employment.
• Career development opportunities - whether this is in-house, externally delivered training programmes, or via our Apprenticeship partner (Lifetime), we have a real appetite at Chilled Pubs to ‘growing our own’ future leaders.
• Wine Club! Huge discounts on wine for Chilled Employees
• At Chilled Pubs, Inspiring Togetherness is a fundamental part of what we do, both for our wonderful guests, but also, our teams across the business. Chilled Pubs is focussed on being the best, and to help us get there, we understand, care about, and live and breathe four core values.

We are extremely proud to have created a real family here at Chilled Pubs, with many of our employees achieving close to 10 years’ service with us.

For a sneak peek into what life is like working with us head over to our website where you can ‘meet the team’ for each of our sites or you can find us on most social media platforms!

We hope to welcome you to the family soon!