Kitchen Manager

York, ENG, GB, United Kingdom

Job Description

KITCHEN MANAGER post within York's Award winning family attraction.

An exciting opportunity to join an established company with an amazing reputation in the leisure and hospitality industry.

The Web Adventure Park is a family attraction, with a large indoor play area with cafe, an outdoor park, animal farm and over 13 rides. We also operate a large nursery on site. We welcome over 220k visitors a year, and we have two kiosks around the outside park to service the demand for excellent food.

The applicant must have high volume experience within these sectors and have a good understanding of customer service, managing and motivating large teams. Food service is central to our business, and we have a large kitchen team who produce freshly prepared food, and the applicant would ideally have experience dealing with quick service

Some weekends off and no late nights, service finishes at 6.00pm.

Excellent opportunities in the future and great benefits for the successful applicant.We are looking for an experienced and talented Kitchen Manager to join the Web Adventure Park. The park is a fun, busy, fast paced relaxed environment you will look after the main restaurant onsite, two outside catering units and oversee the chefs to prepare the food for our onsite nursery.

A Head Chef and established team is already in place we just need that leader to take over the operation and move the it forward. The park stops serving food at 6pm so you will have you evenings and some weekends off if your operation is covered.

The Role:



As the Kitchen Manager your role will include:

Reporting and communicating to the Parks Management Team
Improving performance, staff retention and development of staff within the kitchens
Creating and enforcing working practices and company policies
Ensuring all health & safety, hygiene policies and procedures are adhered to.
Carry out in house audits to identify key areas of improvement and development.
Looking after the chefs to prepare a simple quick menu with great food quality.
Look after the nursery chef to prepare a rolling weekly nursery menu.
Develop key food lines to increase profit.
A strong understanding on how to maintain a GP target
Help the wider park operation when asked.
Creative and in touch with food trends

Willing to embrace new technology and offer ideas to generate cost savings in service and preparation.

Who we need



Kitchen management or head chef experience is absolutely necessary including stock takes, dry GPs, wage budgets, P&Ls, Haccp etc
Must be extremely organised and be able to prioritise workload.
Communication is key both verbal and written.
A self-motivation manager who can find solutions!
You must be able to delegate - your head chefs will be vital to the success of your role. Help & support them to do their job.

What you'll get



Independent culture where your ideas matter
Company laptop
Christmas day and Boxing Day off
Free entry for family and friends to the park
Paid overtime

The main thing will be you will be working with a group of people who love working where they do, many of our team have been here over 10 years, including our Head Chef. We believe that our team deserve an excellent work/life balance, and that is what you get here!

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: 31,000.00-35,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Company events Company pension Discounted or free food Employee discount Free parking On-site parking
Schedule:

Day shift Holidays
Ability to commute/relocate:

York, YO32 2RH: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: In person

Reference ID: KITCHEN MANAGER

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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD3181479
  • Industry
    Not mentioned
  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    York, ENG, GB, United Kingdom
  • Education
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