Senior Pizza Chef

Yard Sale Pizza Balham; Greater London; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus incentives

Free pizza on shift

Overtime paid

Career progression

Discounts on food

Job summary

Yard Sale Pizza Balham is seeking kitchen staff to showcase pizza-making skills and help run a fast-paced service. You'll maintain cleanliness and support a busy kitchen team while delivering great pizza to customers in a lively London neighbourhood.

The role requires dough stretching expertise, strong English, and a willingness to work weekends. Flexible full- or part-time hours are offered in a growing, award-winning London brand.

Qualifications

• Experience stretching, baking and dough preparation in a fast-paced kitchen.
• Excellent teamwork and communication within a busy team.
• Good command of English for clear kitchen communication.
• Willingness to work weekends and flexible shifts.

Responsibilities

• Showcase pizza-making skills and maintain quality.
• Ensure kitchen operations run smoothly during service.
• Adhere to high standards of cleanliness and organisation.
• Collaborate with a fast-paced kitchen team.

Skills

Dough stretching

Team player

English proficiency

Weekend availability

Marana ovens

Tools

Marana ovens

Job description

Yard Sale Pizza

Offering new loyalty incentive - extra 75p per hour paid after 1 years continuous service

Who are we?

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 17 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 second shop south of the river in Balham serving the folk of South-West London, second shop opened in the midst of the pandemic in March 2021 and still going strong! We are open for delivery & collection seven days a week, with a few spots outside to perch with your pizza when things are bit more normal. We've moved into an exceptional neighbourhood, with plenty of restaurants and bars to grab a drink after work :).

What will I be doing?

• You’ll be showcasing your wonderful pizza-making skills
• Ensuring the kitchen service is running smoothly.
• Adhering to exceptionally high standards - including cleanliness.
• Working with a fast-paced kitchen team.

What are we looking for?

• Someone with excellent experience stretching, baking and making dough in a fast-paced environment.
• A great team player who loves to work within a team with great interpersonal skills.
• Someone with a good command of English.
• Someone who is willing to work weekends.

What’s on offer…

• Competitive rates paid hourly with bonus incentives in place.
• A brilliant work/life balance so you won't be working super-late!
• Full time or part time hours available and all overtime paid for.

• Loyalty incentive - extra 50p per hour paid after 1 years continuous service.
• Loads of training & career progression - we have excellent learning and development opportunities.
• Working with a great team, brand new equipment and state-of-the-art marana ovens.
• Brilliant discounts for family and friends off food and merchandise and of course free pizza on shift!

Pizza & Love,

YSP