Restaurant Associates UK
Chef Manager
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Take the lead in a role where you'll combine your passion for food with strong commercial and operational leadership. As Chef Manager, you'll be responsible for overseeing both the kitchen and the day-to-day operation, ensuring exceptional food quality, outstanding service, and an excellent client experience.
This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced Head Chef looking to broaden their commercial expertise while remaining hands-on in the kitchen and leading a successful team.
What you'll be doing
- Deliver consistently high standards of food quality, presentation, and customer service.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, ensuring their expectations are exceeded.
- Manage budgets, food costs, GP, and overall financial performance.
- Oversee stock control, purchasing, and waste reduction to maximise efficiency.
- Drive retail and hospitality sales, identifying opportunities to grow revenue.
- Lead, inspire, and develop your team, creating a positive and high-performing culture.
- Ensure full compliance with health & safety, food safety, and company procedures.
- Monitor operational performance, using data and feedback to identify improvements.
- Act as a brand ambassador, promoting the site and delivering an exceptional customer experience.
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What we're looking for
- Previous experience as a Chef Manager, Head Chef, or an accomplished Sous Chef ready to take the next step.
- A hands-on leader who enjoys motivating and developing others.
- Strong commercial awareness with experience managing budgets and controlling costs.
- The ability to build positive client relationships and deliver excellent customer service.
- Excellent communication and organisational skills, with a proactive approach to problem-solving.
- A thorough understanding of health & safety and food safety legislation.
- Experience within contract catering would be an advantage, although it's not essential.
Benefits
We ensure you're rewarded for all your hard work, which is why we offer a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:
- Free meals
- Onsite free car parking
- Contributory pension scheme
- Grow your career with our Career Pathways and MyLearning programmes
- Quick access for you and your immediate family to a Digital GP, and wider healthcare benefits
- Exclusive travel discounts with TUI, Expedia, Booking.com and many more
- Save money on your food shop with discounts on Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons and many more
- Up to 44% off cinema tickets to enjoy your favourite blockbuster
- Receive cash rewards every time you spend and use them on a wide range of brands
- Un-wind with us with free wellness, mindfulness and exercise classes
- You can share all discounts and offers with your friends and families
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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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Compass Group UK&I is committed to fostering an environment where every individual can truly be themselves at work and has equal opportunities to advance in their careers. We strive to build a culture that respects and celebrates the unique talents, beliefs, backgrounds, and abilities of all our team members. We want our colleagues to feel valued, empowered to reach their full potential, and to thrive - because diversity is our strength!
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