Kitchen Manager
What is required?
- Graduate
- Minimum of 2 years in a similar position
- Effective team, time and organisational management skills
- Effective trainer and an excellent Food Safety and Health & Safety knowledge
- Excellent command of the English language
What will you get?
- Competitive pay
- 45 hour work week
- 31 days annual leave
- Participation in a non-contractual tronc scheme that can earn you between £2-£4 per hour depending on how busy your bakery is (including the management team)
- Participation in a performance-based bonus scheme.
- Great work-life balance
- Free, nutritious and organic meals while working and generous discounts when off duty
- Perkbox
- Cycle to work scheme
- BUPA cash plan gold level
- Life assurance 3x your annual salary
- Study support and professional qualifications with an industry-leading Apprenticeship scheme
- Up to £200 cash reward for every recommended team member and up to £500 cash reward for every recommended manager
- In-house training academy offering an exciting portfolio of courses and development paths
- Regular socials and team and companywide incentives
- 6 monthly team survey
What will you do?
- 20% Coaching and onboarding team members
- 20% Ordering ingredients and kitchen supplies
- 20% Supporting General Manager with budget matters
- 20% Ensuring standard portions and quality of dishes
- 20% Maintaining a clean and safe kitchen
This vacancy has been created based on interviews with employees to help you get a realistic preview of the job.
Vacancy
As a Kitchen Manager at Le Pain Quotidien, you are responsible for the kitchen department running smoothly and ensuring that all kitchen and bakery staff adhere to safety regulations. You do this for the bakery, restaurant and sometimes the catering as well.
You make sure that the orders are ready on time, the food is prepared correctly and that the quality standards are high. Besides this, you coach and onboard (new) employees and make sure that they focus on the knowledge, presentation and the portions of the dishes. Making the work schedule is also one of your tasks. In addition to this, you also work together with the rest of the kitchen team. You assist with cleaning and the food preparation. Furthermore, you regularly order supplies and ingredients so that the kitchen always has enough stock.
You are the manager of the Back of House, which consists of several Bakery and Kitchen Assistants and Kitchen Team Members.
If you are a natural leader, can deal with many issues at once, like making guests happy and can also work well with different types of people, then this is a job for you.
Working week
On a good day, you are busy working with your team, serving guests, or you do the stock count of all the ingredients or some other administration as you have enough support from the team. You also have time to do the tasting with the bakery team. You like to do this, as it creates a good teamwork.
On a less enjoyable day, you don’t have enough team members and there are a lot of things to do, or there is a shortage of ingredients that you need. That makes your day difficult.
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- Receive order and open store
- Lunch
- Coaching team members
- Maintaining a clean and safe kitchen
- Check order
- Daily Food Check
- Briefing with General Manager
- Briefing with staff
- Ordering food
- Service
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- Overview of the kitchen cleaning
- Lunch
- Coaching team members
- Daily Food Check
- Open store
- Briefing with General Manager
- Briefing with staff
- Solving conflict
- Ordering food
- Service
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- Lunch
- Ordering food for the kitchen
- Finding replacement for sick colleague
- Maintaining a clean and safe kitchen
- Daily Food Check
- Briefing with General Manager
- Briefing with staff
- Service
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- Help tidy up and clean
- Training new employee
- Daily Food Check
- Invoice reconciliation
- Maintaining a clean and safe kitchen
- Overview of the kitchen cleaning
- Service
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- Lunch
- Overview of the kitchen cleaning
- Order checking
- Maintaining a clean and safe kitchen
- Daily Food Check
- Open store
- Briefing with General Manager
- Briefing with staff
- Check order
- Solving conflict
- Service
- Stock count
Firsthand experience
Growth
You will receive four weeks training program when you join us and a sign-off at the end of your 3 months. You will be supported by our training manager and your center of excellence trainer. Your work mentor will provide guidance with on-the-job learning complimented by job specific online courses. You will have regular catch-ups with your manager and engaging development workshops in our Farming Academy.
Working at Le Pain Quotidien UK
Le Pain Quotidien (French for 'daily bread') is an all day bakery chain founded in 1990 by Alain Coumont. Alain was dissatisfied with the quality of bread in Brussels, so he started making his own sourdough bread using only four ingredients: water, flour, salt and time. Now Le Pain Quotidien has more than two hundred restaurants in fifteen countries, spread over three continents.
- Headquarters in Brussels, Amsterdam, London and Paris
- 5.000 employees worldwide
- Active in 15 countries
- 41% / 59%
- Black outerwear
Colleagues
Application process
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