Staff Dining Head Chef
£53.47k per annumFull-time
Head Chef – Workplace Dining
Canary Wharf, London | Monday to Friday | 7:30am–4:00pm | 40 hours per week
Are you a hands-on Head Chef who enjoys leading from the kitchen floor?
We’re looking for a professional, commercially minded Head Chef to take ownership of a busy workplace-dining operation in Canary Wharf. Serving approximately 800 lunches each day alongside breakfast, this is an exciting opportunity to lead a large-scale food offer while maintaining excellent quality, consistency and presentation.
You’ll oversee a varied operation featuring four food counters, a salad bar and a small deli bar. Working closely with your chefs throughout the day, you’ll inspire the team, build strong relationships and continually look for ways to improve the food and service.
What you’ll be doing
- Leading and developing the kitchen team through a visible, hands-on approach
- Managing a seasonal five-week menu cycle
- Delivering fresh, appealing food consistently at high volume
- Maintaining strong gross-profit performance through accurate costing and effective controls
- Managing purchasing, stock, food costs and waste
- Using weekly and monthly reporting to monitor performance
- Ensuring full compliance with HACCP, food safety and allergen procedures
- Maintaining recipe specifications and consistency across every service
- Bringing fresh ideas to the menus, counters and wider customer experience
What we’re looking for
You’ll be an experienced Head Chef with a strong background in high-volume workplace dining, contract catering or a similar environment. You’ll be confident managing a busy kitchen, commercially astute and passionate about developing people.
You’ll lead with professionalism and positivity while being comfortable challenging the team when standards can be improved. French culinary knowledge would be an advantage, but it isn’t essential.
About Us
Restaurant Associates provides brilliant hospitality through our food, drink and services. We work with our partners and collaborate with our clients to achieve great things together.
Every day, our teams of passionate hospitality professionals strive for excellence in delivering employee dining and hospitality to some of the UK's leading workplace as well as inspiring exceptional experiences in iconic cultural and heritage destinations.
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