Head Chef
About us:
Market House is set in the centre of Reading, 5 min walk from the train station and surrounded by shops, restaurants and bars. With 23 hotel rooms, private spaces, a roof terrace bar, shuffle boards, ping pong tables, darts and a karaoke booth we are anything but standard. We strive to provide the best eating, drinking, sleeping and gaming experiences possible, we want to make sure that everyone who walks through our door has the best time possible and most importantly wants to come back and have it again!
What we offer ourHead Chefs:
1. Head Chefs get to have full autonomy to create your own menus and specials
2. Access to our Apprenticeship Scheme and Development Programmes
3. Access to regular culinary masterclasses covering topics such as Game, Butchery and Shellfish
4. Access to inspirational food trips with our top quality suppliers
5. Regular Chef Forums with other Head Chefs to inspire and develop
6. Free meals
7. 20% discount in all Young’s pubs and hotels
8. Share save Scheme
9. Enhanced Company Pension Scheme
10. 28 Days Holiday per year
What we look for in a Head Chef:
This role requires someone that can inspire a team, to bring out the potential and lead by example whilst being able to develop, cost and produce fresh seasonal menus for the variety of revenue streams within the business.
11. Have experience championing excellent service through quality food either as a Head Chef or in the position of Sous Chef
12. Demonstrate a passion for leading and developing a team
13. Be an active hands-on team player with excellent communication skills
14. Be responsible and able to manage the kitchen staff rota, training and all health and safety effectively at all times
15. Be able to demonstrate your creativity and ability to design and deliver new dishes for our menus and daily specials
16. Demonstrate great planning and organisational skills, necessary to maintain effective controls with regard to both GP and labour
17. Have a pro-active approach to driving sales and delivering growth, through engagement with both kitchen and front of house teams