Kitchen Manager
Stokes Tea and Coffee are searching for a talented, driven Kitchen Manager who understands the importance and joy of delivering delicious, fresh food and can lead a team to consistently offer beautiful, quality dishes.
Who We Are
The award-winning Stokes Tea & Coffee has over 120 years of passion and know-how in sourcing, roasting and blending its tea and coffee, supplying businesses locally and across the UK. We operate three destination cafés across Lincolnshire. Each café offers a unique ambience, quality produce and of course the best coffee, which we roast on site, at The Lawn. Alongside this, our sister companies, The Blue Room and Charlotte House Hotel, offer beautiful event spaces to suit every visitor and occasion, so there are plenty of career opportunities to explore. This role will be based in the High Bridge Café, our flagship café.
At Stokes we are passionate about our people, customers and communities and are constantly evolving to meet the challenges of a changing world, ethically, sustainably and responsibly. We have committed to use business as a force of good as part of our BCorp journey. We want to partner and grow with our team members by offering a supportive work environment that provides better work-life balance, a learning culture to enhance skills, share knowledge and develop your career, as well as offer fair reward. Our management pathway is open to all team members who consistently demonstrate Stokes's behaviours and values.
What You'll Be Doing
As a Stokes Kitchen Manager you will be asked to deliver superb British hospitality that Stokes is synonymous with. The successful candidate will show precision and care in executing our delicious menus, ranging from traditional café breakfast and lunch options, to refined crowd-pleasing dishes for our evening offering at the weekend. You will use your instinctive understanding of food, service and standards to showcase your talents, but to also develop skills across your team. Your financial acumen and organisation skills will ensure you will run a highly efficient and orderly kitchen, in which all understand the critical importance of process and communication.
What We Are Looking For
As an experienced chef and team leader, getting the best from your people by setting and ensuring clear, consistent standards across your kitchen are met, will be a natural focus. Comfortable in a fast-paced kitchen and with an exemplary work ethic, you will be prepared to lead by example and step into whichever section that requires your support. You will run a highly organised, efficient kitchen, as well as naturally look to share knowledge and skills to develop and motivate your team.
Essential Requirements
* Experience of working in a fast-paced, quality establishment, working with fresh products
* Significant experience in a kitchen management role
* Minimum Level 2 Food Hygiene Safety certificate
* Outstanding and approachable team leader with outstanding work ethic
* Naturally organised and shares knowledge and skills
* Excellent financial and communication skills
* Ability to work calmly and effectively in an often fast-paced and high-pressure environment
* Flexibility required across the week with regular weekend working and some limited evening shifts
* To apply you must be able to work in the UK
* Computer literacy and familiarity with restaurant management software is desirable
* First Aid certificate is desirable
What we offer
* Daytime hours 7.30am - 5pm
* Paid for every hour you work
* Enhanced annual leave entitlement
* Free food and drinks (on shift)
* Employee high-street discounts
* Staff socials
* Supportive team environment
* Health & wellbeing programme
* Training offered
* Company pension
* Cycle to work scheme
* Store discount
* Bereavement Leave
How to apply
Please send an up-to-date and relevant CV, along with a statement setting out why you would be amazing in this role. If you want to stand out from the crowd, you can send 1 minute video to -
As we are fortunate to have positive responses to our campaigns, we are not able to feedback to every candidate. If you have not been contacted within 2 weeks, your application has unfortunately not been progressed.
Stokes values a diverse and inclusive workforce and resolutely believes that this can bring fresh ideas, thinking and approaches to the way we work and better serve our customers, partners and employees. We welcome everyone from everywhere to come and join our team. Please let us know if we can support you in any specific ways to apply to join us.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £14.25-£15.20 per hour
Benefits:
* Additional leave
* Bereavement leave
* Company events
* Company pension
* Cycle to work scheme
* Discounted or free food
* Employee discount
* Free fitness classes
* Health & wellbeing programme
* Store discount
Application question(s):
* Tell us about why you want this role so we can understand all the great stuff you bring to the role and to ensure we partner with you and meet your expectations.
Work Location: In person