Head Chef

Yard Sale Pizza Chiswick; Greater London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Loyalty incentive: 50p/hour after 1y

Paid overtime

Holiday pay options

Career progression

Free pizza on shift

Staff parties

Uniform provided

Job summary

Yard Sale Pizza is seeking an experienced Head Pizza Chef to lead and mentor a busy kitchen team in London. You will oversee all on-site kitchen operations, ensuring top-quality pizza, efficient service and a positive team environment.

The role requires masterclass pizza-making skills, expertise in Neapolitan dough and stone oven baking, plus strong leadership and hygiene practices. Competitive hourly rates with full-time hours and additional loyalty incentives apply.

Qualifications

• Masterclass pizza-making skills with real passion for pizza.
• Strong Neapolitan dough handling and stone oven baking.
• Experience leading and developing a collaborative kitchen team.
• Good knowledge of risk assessments, food safety and hygiene.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of chefs in a busy kitchen.
• Report to Kitchen Operations Manager and General Manager; run kitchen on site.
• Maintain a positive working environment for the team.
• Ensure pizza quality, speed of service and customer experience.
• Train and appraise the chef team; keep them engaged.
• Hit GP targets and maintain portion controls.
• Maintain 5* Food Hygiene standards.
• Manage rota in line with budgeted staff costs.
• Handle stock ordering and rotation.

Skills

Masterclass pizza making

Neapolitan pizza

Team leadership

Food safety

Organisation

Job description

Yard Sale Pizza are on the search for an experienced Head Pizza Chef who is a collaborative team leader with excellent pizza making skills to join our amazing team!

**Offering new loyalty incentive - extra 50p per hour paid after 1 years continuous service**

Who are we?

Yard Sale Pizza fired up the oven in 2014, starting with weekly supper clubs from our backyard in Hackney. We now offer delivery, dine-in and takeaway in 17 of our favourite neighbourhoods. Known for our collaborations, we’ve teamed up with illustrators, musicians, international chefs & local eateries- all on the quest for the perfect pie!

We’ve won London’s most-loved restaurant in Time Out’s 2016 Love London awards, were awarded Best Cheap Eats in the Observer Food Monthly Awards in 2017, and were voted London’s favourite pizza in Time Out’s inaugural Clash of the Slices in 2022.

We’re a young and fast-growing company who offer plenty of career progression for hard working and talented individuals.

Yard Sale Pizza fired up the oven in 2014, starting with weekly supper clubs from our backyard in Hackney. We now offer delivery, dine-in and takeaway in 17 of our favourite neighbourhoods. Known for our collaborations, we’ve teamed up with illustrators, musicians, international chefs & local eateries- all on the quest for the perfect pie!

We’ve won London’s most-loved restaurant in Time Out’s 2016 Love London awards, were awarded Best Cheap Eats in the Observer Food Monthly Awards in 2017, and were voted London’s favourite pizza in Time Out’s inaugural Clash of the Slices in 2022.

We’re a young and fast-growing company who offer plenty of career progression for hard working and talented individuals.

What will I be doing?

• Leading and mentoring a hard working team of chefs in a busy environment.

• You’ll report to our Kitchen Operations Manager and General Manager and you will be responsible to run all areas of the kitchen on site.

• Ensuring the smooth running of the kitchen whilst keeping a positive working environment for the team!

• You’ll be responsible for overseeing and providing excellent pizza quality, kitchen speed and service.

• Training and maintaining a competent chef team - providing regular appraisals and keeping the team engaged.

• Ensuring that you hit successful GP and portioning figures.

• Maintaining 5* Food Hygiene standards.

• You’ll be responsible for your team's rota in alignment with budgeted staff costs.

• Stock ordering and rotation.

What are we looking for?

• Someone with masterclass Pizza-making skills with a real passion for pizza!

• Someone who is highly skilled in making Neapolitan-style pizza, making and stretching dough and baking in a stone-based marana oven.

• A Head Chef who has previous experience leading and developing a team who enjoys collaboration and has excellent communication skills.

• Someone who has first-class organisation skills and attention to detail.

• Someone with good knowledge of risk assessments, food safety and hygiene within a commercial kitchen.

What’s on offer:

• Competitive Hourly Rates.

• Full time hours - around 40 per week.

• Loyalty incentive - extra 50p per hour paid after 1 years continuous service

• Paid overtime.

• Holiday paid in days off or in cash.

• Career progression with Yard Sale Pizza - our Shop Head Chefs earn a monthly bonuses based on KPI’s.

• Working with a brilliant team in a fast-growing company.

• Free pizza on shift and brilliant discounts to enjoy with family and friends.

• Staff parties throughout the year.

• Uniform and other merchandise to celebrate your milestones working with us.

If this sounds good, then we can’t wait to hear from you!

Pizza & Love,

YSP