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Tesco; Coventry; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Colleague Clubcard benefits

Flexible working options

Retirement savings plan

Life Assurance

Wellbeing resources

Exclusive deals site for Tesco staff

Uniform provided

28 days holiday include BHs

Colleague networks

Job summary

Tesco Cafés in Coventry is looking for a Chef with hospitality experience to join our busy café kitchen. You’ll be responsible for food preparation, storage and delivering delicious meals that meet our standards.

You’ll bring hands-on experience in a similar fast-paced environment, lead a developing team, and help drive health and safety, waste reduction and excellent customer service. Join us to create a welcoming, inclusive place where colleagues feel respected and valued, and enjoy benefits

Qualifications

• A background in hospitality
• Experience of remaining productive in a high‑pressure environment
• A commitment to excellent customer service
• A desire to create an inclusive work environment where colleagues feel respected, safe and valued
• Good planning and organisation skills
• Confidence using your initiative to identify opportunities to improve our ways of working or adapt to different situations
• Excellent communication skills to motivate and support a growing team

Responsibilities

• Storage and preparation in line with food safety and hygiene regulations
• Deliver timely, tasty food to customers whilst maintaining great standards and food served to spec
• Identifying new and better ways of working to keep improving services for customers and colleagues
• Health and safety and food safety requirements are met
• Understanding the key drivers of our service plan and delivering to the standard required

Skills

Hospitality

High-pressure environment

Customer service

Inclusive work environment

Planning & organisation

Initiative

Communication

Job description

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Chef with hospitality experience to join one of our lively café kitchens. Your daily operations of the kitchen would include preparation, food storage, and to deliver delicious food that keeps our customers happy, satisfied, and coming back for more. It’s all part of making every day a little better for them, and us. You’ll bring your experience of working in a similarly busy environment to Tesco, where you’ll become a café menu expert keen to share your knowledge with the team around you. From health and safety to limiting food waste, you’ll understand the importance of every detail and inspire your team to deliver outstanding food quality and speed of service - after all, no one tries harder for customers than us. Tesco Cafés are a place to get on. We believe in creating a great environment for colleagues to work - and providing opportunities for everyone to be at their best. With your previous experience, you’ll help to deliver skills as you build an inclusive place where people feel respected, safe and valued. In doing so, you’ll grow as a leader and develop your skills and experience as part of our friendly team. Please note that you need to be 18 or over to apply for this role.

You will be responsible for Whilst specific responsibilities will be dependent upon the changing needs of Tesco as a business, the following provides an overview of the role’s key responsibilities and measures:

• storage and preparation in line with food safety and hygiene regulations.
• deliver timely, tasty food to customers whilst maintaining great standards and food served to spec!
• Identifying new and better ways of working to keep improving services for customers and colleagues.
• health and safety and food safety requirements are met.
• Understanding the key drivers of our service plan and delivering to the standard required.

You will need:

• A background in hospitality
• Experience of remaining productive in a high-pressure environment.
• A commitment to excellent customer service.
• A desire to create an inclusive work environment where colleagues feel respected, safe and valued.
• Good planning and organisation skills.
• Confidence using your initiative to identify opportunities to improve our ways of working or adapt to different situations.
• Excellent communication skills to motivate and support a growing team

What's in it for you?

Alongside a fantastic work life balance, we offer excellent benefits that help make The Cafe a great place to work. These include but aren’t limited to::

• Get 10% off and 15% at pay day weekends; save up to £2,000 a year with your Colleague Clubcard with an additional card to share with family outside your home.
• Request flexible working from day one
• Retirement savings plan
• LifeAssurance
• Access to free wellbeing services with a range of resources to support your mind, body, and life
• An exclusive deals and discounts website saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out and utility bills for the home
• Uniform provided and policies to support you for all of life’s moments, big and small
• Holiday starting at 28 days (Including Bank Holidays)
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds.

About us

Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues.

It’s part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we’re proud to have been accredited as one of Britain’s Top Employers again this year.

We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers.

But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, and a vast variety of roles, we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business.

We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers

Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.

For more information about us please visit www.tescoplc.com