Kitchen Manager - Notcutts Woodbridge Garden Centre

Notcutts Ltd.; Woodbridge; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A national Garden Centre group in Woodbridge is seeking a Kitchen Manager to lead their restaurant team. This role emphasizes daytime hours, excellent customer service, and training staff to ensure the quality of food preparation. Ideal candidates will have strong commercial acumen and a level 3 food hygiene qualification. Join a supportive team with opportunities for career growth.

Benefits

Free onsite parking

Career growth opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Experience in managing stock levels and controlling wastage.
• Ability to prepare dishes to brand specifications.
• Comfortable working alongside the kitchen team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the busy kitchen team in a Garden Centre Restaurant.
• Ensure excellent customer service and food quality.
• Motivate, lead, and train the kitchen staff.

Skills

Food preparation

Team leadership

Customer service

Stock management

Health and safety knowledge

Food hygiene certification (level 3)

Job description

Apply Before: 24 December 2025

Full Time - 40 hours per week (to include weekends and Bank Holidays on a rota basis)

Day time hours, No evenings, nights or split shifts

You love food. And you’re great at creating fresh food for customers to enjoy. What you probably don’t enjoy is working late at night or split shifts.

As a Notcutts Kitchen Manager you’ll balance your passion for food with the rest of your life. With us, you only work daytime hours.

Our restaurants are at the heart of our garden centres and an important reason for customers to visit us. Your attention to detail and organisation will mean excellent customer service is as important to you as the ingredients on your menu. You will equally be passionate about motivating, leading and training your team to ensure you develop great chefs to deliver great food and great profits.

We’re looking for a Kitchen Manager to lead our busy kitchen team in our Garden Centre Restaurant in Woodbridge, Suffolk. Our restaurant is open from 9:00am to 5:00pm, serving breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea. No more evening service and late nights!

We would like you to have commercial acumen, experience of managing stock levels and controlling wastage and knowledge of health and safety requirements within a commercial kitchen with your food hygiene qualification at level 3.

You will also have experience and be comfortable with being hands on working alongside your team to prepare dishes on a daily basis to brand specifications.

In return, our Kitchen Manager will receive:

• Free onsite parking
• Potential career growth opportunities and huge support from our central F & B team ·

As a national Garden Centre group, we know how important nature is for wellbeing, but we also provide a free and confidential employee assistance programme for anyone who needs additional support. And here’s something important to know. There’s no such thing as a perfect job candidate, so don’t hold back on applying, we’d love to hear from you.

Notcutts is a place where everyone (and everything!) can grow. We’re committed to equality of opportunity and we welcome applications from every part of our community and beyond.

Please forward your CV now, to apply. We regret we can currently only contact candidates who we would like to invite for interview. If you don’t hear from us regarding your application, we are sorry that you haven’t been successful this time.

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