Head Chef - Kettner's, Central London

Soho House & Co.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly Pay

Team meals on shift

50% off Food & Drink

Private Health and Dental Care

Life Assurance

Birthday day off

Staff Discount on products

Counselling sessions

Training programs

Team events

Job summary

Soho House & Co. in Central London seeks a Head Chef to lead kitchen operations, manage the brigade, and drive menu development with a focus on high-quality member experiences.

You will work with the General Manager to elevate food offerings, control costs, and maintain the highest standards across BOH and service.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years in a similar capacity.
• Proven culinary leadership and menu development.
• Experience managing budgets and P&L.
• Strong communication and team-building.
• Flexibility for weekends/holidays.

Responsibilities

• Lead kitchen operations and brigade.
• Oversee BOH, recruitment, onboarding, training, payroll.
• Ensure health and safety compliance.
• Delegate tasks and daily checklists to match business levels.
• Train staff on safe work habits and procedures.
• Create and enforce efficient kitchen processes.
• Coordinate with front of house and marketing on menus.
• Prepare team meals ensuring high quality and dietary compliance.

Job description

Kettner’s, Central London

The Role…

At Soho House, the Head Chef is a culinary expert who oversees the operations and staff of one of our houses or public restaurants. Main responsibilities include creating and maintaining the kitchen’s budget, assigning tasks to other chefs in your brigade and ensuring member satisfaction by ensuring the delivery of high-quality dishes.

Working alongside the General Manager to improve the food offering in the house or restaurant, ensuring appeal to members and guests.

What’s in it for you?

• Weekly Pay
• Team meal whilst on shift prepared by our chefs
• Every House Membership
• 50% off Food & Drink, 7 days a week
• Staff Room Rate; Any Bedroom, Any House, $100 a night
• Private Health and Dental Care
• Life Assurance
• Day off on your birthday
• Up to 50% Staff Discount on Cowshed & Soho Home
• In conjunction with Soho Impact, take 2 days paid a year to support a charity of your choice.
• Free Counselling Sessions
• Cookhouse & House Tonic: Our Cookhouse & House Tonic programmes offer unique food and drink trainings, events and opportunities to inspire and educate.
• Continuous training to develop yourself personally and professionally
• Team Events: From fitness sessions to cinema screenings and art classes, each month we hold a series of fun events which you can sign up to

Soho House offers competitive compensation packages that feature global benefits and perks. Whether you’re seeking entry-level employment or a new opportunity to expand your profession, we offer training to develop the technical and managerial skills necessary to enhance your career

Key duties…

• Influential leader and operational Chef with proven experience that delivers effective and efficient Culinary Programs, team management and profit driving dining experience(s)
• Oversee Back of House (BOH) operation (Pastry, Production, Pizza, Pasta and Specialty Cooks) team including but not limited to recruitment, on-boarding, training, payroll and disciplinary procedures. As well as staff performance, conducting appraisals and strategize with leadership to assess staff performance and development while maintaining professional relationships
• Ensure health and safety policy is always followed as well as implement, monitor and enforce compliance with all Company policies, procedures, and standards.
• Delegate tasks to team and complete daily check lists that support anticipated business levels, production, orders, special requests, events, dietary restrictions and ensure team follows proper allergy procedure.
• Responsible for educating and training staff on safe work habits and proper process as well as procedure if encountered with a dangerous or unsafe situation.
• Create, implement and enforce process to run an effective and efficient kitchen while maintaining the highest-level of standards, food quality, COGS and minimized margins to increase profits without sacrificing taste or member / guest experience.
• Ensure teamwork and synergy exists between the front and back of house staff through proper communication and delegate tasks and staff tasks to ensure smooth service and kitchen operations.
• Collaborate with Marketing/Events department on menu creation, food preparation, food costs, quality food service and product are delivered.
• Working alongside the other chefs to produce ‘team meals’ for the wider team in the house or restaurant. Ensuring this is of high quality, varied in choice and suitable to all dietary requirements.
• Shares the overall responsibility of proper storing procedures, food orders, food cost, equipment, sanitation and hygiene to Company and local standards.

What we are looking for…

• Minimum of 5+ years’ experience in similar capacity
• Culinary trained and professional who is passionate and curious to develop and grow as a Chef
• Experienced managing P&L’s, labour, purchasing, vendors and quality control while providing results in revenue
• Must be able to demonstrate competency as outlined in the training schedule and Club School
• Must be able to work flexible shifts and schedules, including weekends and holidays as needed
• Ability to take direction, work in a team environment and autonomously