Kitchen Manager | Restaurants

Butlin's; Minehead; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Butlin's Minehead is seeking a Kitchen Manager to lead a busy venue, developing the kitchen team and ensuring exceptional guest dining experiences. You will manage resources, recruitment, and menu planning while upholding food hygiene and safety standards.

You will drive cost-effective operations, monitor performance, and foster a collaborative team culture to consistently deliver our brand standards and guest-focused service.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar level role.
• Willing to step up to the next role in the kitchen.
• Strong leadership and teamwork to deliver brand standards.
• Focus on resource planning, recruitment and selection.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the kitchen team to deliver brand standards.
• Plan resources and recruit/select team members.
• Maintain food hygiene, health and safety compliance.
• Control food costs through menu planning and cooking to spec.

Skills

Team leadership

People management

Customer service orientation

Education

Level 3 Food Safety qualification

Job description

Description

About The Role

We’re looking for a Kitchen Manager to join the our team in Minehead.

We truly believe that variety is the spice of life and in this role you’ll have the opportunity to lead and develop the skills of our team in one of our fantastic food venues.

A Butlin’s resort is the home of getting stuck in and no trip to the seaside would be complete without great food and we offer this to every guest, every time in our restaurant.

About You

We are looking for individuals with experience in a similar level role. We would also love to hear from you if you're looking to step up to your next role in the kitchen.

You will need to be hard working and determined, a reliable person who likes to get things done and who will look for better ways for the team to consistently deliver our brand standards.

Making our guests smile is at the heart of our values, and you will ensure this happens consistently by ensuring that guests remain the central focus of all operational decisions. This will include resource planning, recruitment and selection, ensuring that we have the very best team in place to deliver an amazing service.

You will be passionate about exceptional experience and will monitor this regularly to develop action plans in your venue with a focus on continuous improvement. Financial performance will play an important part in your role, and you will deliver food cost budgets through effective menu planning, cooking to standards and specification. You will also support in the accountability of food hygiene standards and health and safety, inline with legislation and company policies.

We are looking for candidates who are energetic and enthusiastic, high spirited and fun loving and who will understand their role and the value they can add to the guest experience by unleashing the potential of the team.

You should have also passed your Level 3 Food Safety qualification and be confident in leading a team to continually deliver high standards in a fast paced and busy kitchen environment.

We think our Restaurants Team are something special and we know our guests love to keep returning to our restaurants as part of their holiday experience so the cherry on the top for the successful candidate is for them to be fun, keen to join in and work as part of a team, and is interested in ensuring our guests have a great time, every time.

About Butlin's

Did you know Billy Butlin was the first person to introduce dodgems to the UK? That's right, 'fun' is in our DNA, and we've been delighting guests for almost 90 years. Ask any of our team, past and present, and one of the best things they'll say about working at Butlin's is our culture.

As The Home of Entertainment, we pull out all the stops to provide our guests with an 'Altogether More Entertaining and Fun Break', from all-action family holidays to adult-only Big Weekenders, brought to life through our three mighty values. So, if you're looking for a role where you can Create Smiles, where you aren't afraid to Get Stuck In and where the team genuinely Care For Each Other, we think you'll fit right in!