We are CH&CO a collection of specialist businesses and market leading brands.
We want our people to love what they do and have fun. We celebrate diversity, and our inclusive culture encourages everyone to bring their whole self to work every day. Working at CH&CO gives our teams the opportunity to work across all of our brands, experiencing the variety of our business and the services we deliver. We are currently recruiting for a Head Chef.
Location: London
Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 per annuum
Shift Pattern: 40 hours per week, Monday–Friday
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the day-to-day kitchen operation across busy workplace catering, retail, hospitality and event services.
- Deliver consistently high-quality food across breakfast, lunch, hospitality and events, including high-volume services.
- Lead, motivate and develop the kitchen team, bringing in additional support when required.
- Plan and deliver a variety of food offers, including staff dining, buffets, events, bowl food, finger food and plated dining.
- Develop creative, seasonal and rotational menus that meet customer and client expectations.
- Manage food ordering, stock, labour, food costs and budgets, ensuring strong commercial performance.
- Maintain excellent standards of food quality, presentation and customer experience.
- Work closely with the Catering Manager and wider hospitality team to deliver meetings, functions and events successfully.
- Ensure the highest standards of food hygiene, health & safety and compliance.
- Remain hands-on in the kitchen, while effectively planning and organising busy and changing service demands.
Our Ideal Candidate
- An experienced Head Chef or strong senior chef with a background in workplace catering, hospitality, events or another high-volume food operation.
- Confident leading busy breakfast, lunch, hospitality and event services.
- Experience managing high-volume catering and multiple food offers would be highly desirable.
- A strong people leader who can motivate, develop and organise a kitchen team.
- Creative and confident with menu development, including seasonal, rotational and event menus.
- Commercially aware, with a good understanding of food costs, stock, labour and budget management.
- Passionate about delivering great food, presentation and service.
- Highly organised and comfortable managing several priorities at once.
- Hands-on, proactive and adaptable, with the ability to respond quickly to changing business needs.
- Comfortable working closely with operational and hospitality teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience with premium or fine dining would be an advantage but is not essential.
What's in it for you?
Working with CH&CO has its perks! People are at the heart of everything we do, so we've developed a range of benefits to keep you happy.
· Personal Development and Training opportunities
· Life assurance scheme
· Pension scheme
· Holiday allowance
· Access to Healthcare Support App which includes Annual health check, Digital GP, Mental Health Consultations, Nutritional Consultations, Second Medical Opinion
· Eye care
· A great wellbeing strategy – including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, salary finance
· Family friendly support
· Regular social events and communication with our leaders
· A holiday purchase scheme
· Volunteering days
· Professional subscriptions
· Recognition schemes and people awards
· Long service awards
· Access to some great high street discount vouchers