Head Pastry Chef

Alexander House Hotel & Utopia Spa; Crawley; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

45 hrs over 5 days

Holiday allowance 4–5 weeks with long-

8 Bank holidays

Free parking

Job summary

Alexander House Hotel & Utopia Spa is seeking a Head Pastry Chef to lead a talented pastry team in a 3 Rosette kitchen. The role involves creating desserts, breads and cakes in-house for fine dining and banqueting, including afternoon tea, with support from 2 Chef de Parties and 2 Commis Chefs.

You will design menus with the Executive Chef, ensure 3 Rosette quality, and drive stock control and GP performance across the pastry operation.

Qualifications

• Experience as Head Pastry Chef in a quality environment.
• Ability to produce plated desserts to 3 Rosette standard.
• Experience managing pastry team and banqueting operation.
• Stock control and GP attainment experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the pastry section with support from 2 Chef de Parties and 2 Commis Chefs in a 3 Rosette kitchen.
• Create all pastries, desserts, breads and afternoon tea items in-house for restaurants and banqueting.
• Supervise pastry team to ensure consistent high standards across menus.
• Control stock and design menus with Executive Chef for afternoon tea, restaurant and banqueting.

Job description

Head Pastry Chef

£40,000 per annum + monthly service charge payment

The Place

Alexander House Hotel & Utopia Spa, 5 Red Star, Award winning Utopia Spa, 58 bedrooms including the new luxury Cedar Lodge development and a 2-bedroom self-contained Gatehouse are available for guests.

2 Award winning restaurants, Reflections Restaurant (2 Rosettes x 60 covers), AG's Restaurant (3 Rosettes x 38 covers) together with a range of conference and banqueting and private dining rooms catering for 8 to 95 guests.

Head up our 2/3AA rosette pastry kitchen under Alan White our Executive Chef. Creating award winning dishes across the range of menu.

The Role

Head Pastry Chef will be leading the pastry section with the support of 2 Chef de Parties and 2 Commis Chefs in this 3 Rosette kitchen. The kitchen brigade is made up of 22 chefs and 5 kitchen porters so there is a great team to support you.

You and your team will create all dishes fresh in-house from bread to ice-cream and celebration cakes, desserts for our restaurants and banqueting events together with pastries, cakes, scones for our afternoon tea guests. Great variety and freedom to delight our guests.

The Head Pastry Chef is responsible for;

• Ordering and stock control
• Designing with the Executive Chef menu items for afternoon tea, restaurant as well as banqueting menus
• Produce plated desserts for all menus to 2 & 3 Rosette standard.
• Supervision of pastry team to achieve consistent standards.

The business is varied offering catering for Spa Guests, Leisure clients, Local guests as well as corporate, conference and banqueting function guests. Alexander House is a popular wedding venue with weddings taking place in the Shelley Suite as well as in the private Wedding Garden.

Requirements – Head Pastry Chef

The ideal candidate would be someone who has worked in a quality environment and is now seeking a head pastry chef role with responsibility for the Pastry section.

• Demonstrate during a trial shift the practical ability to be able to produce plated desserts to 3 Rosette standard.
• Demonstrate flair and creativity to build on the successful afternoon tea menu.
• Hold the experience to manage the multi menu requirements and banqueting operation.
• Ability to control stocks efficiently and to produce quality menu items achieving GP%
• Quality experience in a fresh food environment
• The passion and drive to contribute to the future success of the kitchen brigade who continue to develop award winning dishes.

The Benefits

• 45 hrs over 5 days
• 4 weeks holiday rising to 5 weeks with service
• 8 Bank holidays
• Free car parking
• Employee uniform

In addition you will receive a range of company benefits including:

• Discounted hotel accommodation for yourself and your family at all hotels
• Discounted hair treatments at our two Utopia Spas
• Discount off all food & beverage at all hotels
• Discount of individual treatments booked in our two Utopia Spas
• Discount on retail products in our two Utopia Spas
• Refer a friend staff recruitment scheme
• In additional you will enjoy a range of other benefits when you celebrate your 1 yr, 3 yr and 5 yr anniversary including; your birthday off paid,complimentary overnight stays, complimentary lunch/afternoon tea and service related holiday

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