Prep Chef - Day Time - Yard Sale Pizza Leytonstone

Yard Sale Pizza; Sale; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A popular pizza restaurant in Sale is looking for a motivated kitchen team member. Responsibilities include kitchen cleaning, preparing orders, and stock management. Ideal candidates will have experience in commercial kitchens, excellent organizational skills, and food safety certification. The role offers daytime shifts, paid overtime, and career progression opportunities with benefits like staff discounts and free pizza.

Benefits

Training and career progression

Paid holidays

Discounts for family and friends

Free pizza on shift

Qualifications

• Experience in a commercial kitchen dealing with high volumes of prep.
• Ability to work autonomously and manage stock.
• Knowledge of risk assessments in commercial kitchens is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Daily kitchen cleaning and maintenance.
• Preparing orders for distribution to shops.
• Opening the shop and receiving deliveries.
• Learning recipes and preparing ingredients.
• Ensuring prep is ready on time for shops.
• Managing stock using kitchen methods.

Skills

Commercial kitchen experience

Excellent organization skills

Ability to maintain cleanliness

Level 2 food safety and hygiene

Job description

Responsibilities

• Daily kitchen cleaning and maintenance (including washing up and deep cleaning.)
• Preparing orders ready to be sent out and distributed to all shops to support their service.
• Opening the shop and receiving deliveries.
• Learning the YSP recipes and preparing the ingredients and dips in batches
• Ensuring all prep is ready on time to send to all of the Yard Sale Pizza shops
• Stock management and control using commercial kitchen methods.

Qualifications

• Someone with previous experience working in a commercial kitchen, dealing with high volumes of prep, managing stock and orders.
• Someone with excellent organisation skills and able to work autonomously.
• Able to maintain a clean and tidy working environment at all times.
• Someone with level 2 food safety and hygiene.
• It would be advantageous if you have previous knowledge of risk assessments in commercial kitchens.

About Yard Sale Pizza

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 15 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. Our Leytonstone has proved a huge hit with the locals! Serving pizza for dine-in, takeaway and delivery, you can now be sure to get a top-notch pizza pie in E11 & E10.

Work Schedule & Benefits

• Day time shifts (shifts run from 7am to 3/4pm across a 5 day week)
• Sundays off.
• All overtime paid for.
• Holidays paid in as cash.
• Branded YSP T-shirts as uniform.
• Loads of training & career progression - we have excellent learning and development opportunities.
• Brilliant discounts for family and friends off food and merchandise and of course free pizza on shift!

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