Kitchen Manager

Kitchen Manager, Star (LU4 9UJ) - Greene King Locals

Salary: £26,500.00 - 30,000.00 + bonus

Address: 33 Luton Road, Chalton, BEDFORDSHIRE LU4 9UJ GBR

Being a Kitchen Manager in Locals is all about delivering an exceptional, unique experience to our customers, with our quality food that complements our local ales and fine wines. As a Kitchen Manager, you will have full responsibility for the food that leaves our kitchens and also developing and leading your team to be the best they can be.

For a Kitchen Manager in Greene King Locals the rewards are great - from salary package, progression and training opportunities, to the reward and recognition from your manager and team. You will be joining the UK's largest pub & brewery, so you'll have plenty of opportunities to progress, and we will support you every step of the way.

If you have previous experience as a Kitchen Manager, Head Chef or Kitchen Team Leader, we could offer you a fulfilling leadership role, and the opportunity to build a successful career.

About the role

The Star in Chalton, LU4 9UJ, are recruiting for an experienced Kitchen Manager to join their Senior Management Team. We are a high volume village pub (100 internal covers) with a large pub garden (300 external covers, we host music festivals and events in the Summer with 600 attending, usually on a BBQ or reduced menu).
You will have experience managing a busy branded pub kitchen: motivating, training and managing a kitchen team, ensuring adequate staffing levels (including recruitment alongside the GM when necessary), stock management (including working to spec with portion control, food ordering, line checks and fortnightly full stocks) and ensuring the kitchen is consistently at a 5* standard - in both hygiene AND food preparation/production. Ideally you will have been maintaining a 5* kitchen in your previous roles and will be able to demonstrate this.
The Star is part of the Greene King Locals family - we are a Neighbourhood Pub & Kitchen - and as such, you'll be entitled to a staff discount (50% when on shift, 33% when off shift) and friends and family discounts, as well as a target led bonus scheme on top of salary. Career boosting training is available through Greene King. This is not a Live-In position.

What's it like to work for Greene King?

It's our people that make us an incredible place to work. We have been through some changes, everything we do is underpinned by giving our Kitchen Managers the freedom to be themselves and own their success.

We care about embracing individuality and each other - You will absolutely be at the forefront of your business. Our pubs, Our environment, Our community and Our customers are the heart of Our Greene King.

We take ownership and give freedom to succeed - You will make great things happen and own the outcome, we encourage you to embrace and unleash your potential by thinking differently and doing the right thing.

We win, learn and celebrate together - Be ready to learn from your mistakes but also to win and celebrate success as an individual and with your team.

As a Kitchen Manager, in reward for your hard work, we will commit to:

Competitive salary with generous bonus and pension contribution
The opportunity to develop your career across our very well-known brands, with over 1800 managed pubs, restaurants and hotels across the UK
Up to 33% discount across all our sites for you and your friends and family
An employee advice and guidance service and the healthcare service, Best Doctors.
As one of the industry's leading apprenticeship providers, we can offer training and development at any stage of your career, whatever step you decide to take
If this sounds like it could be you, then please apply!