We are currently looking for an excellent head production chef to take our food production to thorder next level!
We are Eat 17. We started 12 years ago with a shop in Walthamstow and have grown steadily adding a restaurant, 3 more stores and 2 more soon (so 6 in total soon!).
We have a passion for quality and excellent products, earning awards along the way for best c store in the uk. Our ambition is to prepare and pack as much of our own quality excellent standard products as we can.
We have a bakery in bishops stortford where we bake sourdough every night and pastry kitchen in Walthamstow baking donuts, brownies and loads of pastries.
Our Homerton site produces and packs ready meals, meat, deli products and deliver to the other stores daily.
We are looking for someone who
1. Shares our passion for excellent food
2. Has previous experience in running a production kitchen.
3. Is detail led
4. Excellent communicator
5. Has financial understanding eg KPIs and General Practitioner.
6. Is process driven and able to improve efficiency and processes (from cooking to packing to ordering and delivering) constantly.
7. A calm and solid leader who can lead our team and increase our production and manage the day to day operation of this side of our business keeping the owners informed and updated.
8. Can create dishes and improve recipes
9. Health and safety understanding and implement Salsa in the kitchen to create the highest standards of safety and environment.
10. Able to solve problems. A solutions person not problem person, able to identify issues and resolve them in all aspects of production and organising team and efficiencies.
11. Target driven. To complete the job at the highest standard in the fastest and most efficient way. We will have bonus available to incentivise. For example to find out how long certain production takes and set targets for the team in how many units to produce in set time.
12. To be quality driven and control quality and recipe specifications and standards.
13. Liaise with owners and inform of any methods necessary to improve.
14. Detail orientated and ordering exact quantities is essential so we minimise any overs or under with our weekly orders from our stores.
We are looking for someone who can manage the team well and improve the efficiencies and practices and at the same time roll their sleeves up and get Stuck in too. We estimate an 80-20% split from kitchen to office time where managing orders, production schedules etc.
For someone ambitious and grow this side of the business as we grow.
Kind regards and look forward to hearing from you!
Chris