Chef De Partie - Monday to Friday

Thomas Franks Ltd.; City of London; On-site; GBP 33,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading catering company based in London is seeking a Chef De Partie to join their team. The ideal candidate has experience in a fast-paced kitchen and is passionate about working with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Responsibilities include preparing food from scratch and ensuring high food standards while working with a collaborative team. This role offers numerous employee benefits and excellent career progression opportunities.

Benefits

Wider wallet scheme (discounts at major retailers)

Free meals on duty

Volunteer leave – up to one day per year

Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave

Cycle to work scheme

Recommend a friend bonus

Unrivalled training and development

Well-established apprenticeship programme

Team & company social events

Employee assistance programme

Workplace pension

Career progression within a leading independent caterer

Responsibilities

• Work well in a team providing catering services to pupils and teachers.
• Produce food for service using fresh ingredients and cooking from scratch.
• Adhere to company food standards and control wastage.
• Follow all Food Hygiene and Health & Safety policies.

Skills

Genuine interest in food

Excellent customer service

Team player

Passion for great food

Attention to detail

Understanding of food cost and wastage

Verbal English skills

Written and reading English skills

Experience in customer/food preparation environment

Job description

Contract: Full Time , Permanent
Salary: £ 33,000 per annum
Hours: 40 per week

A fantastic B&I location for a software company offering a cloud-based platform for data analytics and artificial intelligence. This location is based in London. Catering for about 250-300 people and operates Monday to Friday. This is a free issue location offering core feeding of Lunch, Coffee Shop and High end hospitality. With its Central London location, it benefits from great travel access.

We are looking for a talented Chef De Partie to join our team at one of our prestigious locations in London.

You will have previous experience of working within a fast-paced kitchen at CDP or junior sous chef level.

You will be excited to work with fresh seasonal ingredients & regularly changing bespoke menus. You will be creative and have the opportunity to showcase your skillset.

Key responsibilities:

• To work well in a team of chefs providing catering services to pupils and teachers
• To produce food for service using fresh ingredients, cooking from scratch and following the companies brand standards
• Ensuring company food standards are adhered to and wastage controlled.
• Ensuring all Food Hygiene and Health & Safety policies and allergen control procedures are followed.

You will have the following skills:

• A genuine interest in food & excellent customer service
• An all-round team player
• Innovation and passion for great food
• An organised Chef with attention to detail
• Understand the basics of food cost and wastage.
• Ability to demonstrate reasonable / good understanding and use of verbal English.
• Ability to demonstrate reasonable / good standard of written English and reading skills.
• Similar experience of customer and / or food preparation environment is preferred

• Wider wallet scheme (discounts at major retailers, restaurants, gyms etc).
• Free meals on duty
• Volunteers leave – up to one day per year.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Recommend a friend bonus.
• Unrivalled individual training and development.
• Well established apprenticeship programme.
• Team & company social events.
• Employee assistance programme.
• Workplace pension.
• Excellent career progression within a leading independent contract caterer.

About us

Thomas Franks is a founder led, fresh food catering business with a focus on excellence and service delivered with individuality, passion and style. We are unique in every approach and our clients, and our people are paramount to our daily success.

All applicants must be able to demonstrate that they have the Right to Work in the UK to be considered for this role.

Diversity and Inclusion at Thomas Franks

We actively encourage applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds and continue to develop a culture of growth and inclusion and would like to invite applications from groups who are currently under-represented, because we believe greater diversity leads to exceptional results and provides a better working life.