Bach Background
A ‘Bach’ is small beach hut found on the coasts of New Zealand
The Bach brings cool beach vibes to East London.
We focus our menus on healthy, fresh produce and are a destination café for food intolerances and dietary requirements. We have an interesting set menu with dishes using kimchi, figs, mackerel and lots of eggs and avocado! And a changing counter menu that gives our chefs the freedom to create interesting and beautiful salads and Savory and sweet Bakes on a daily basis. Suggestions from all staff are always welcome!
We are very proud of our coffee and its’ quality; we use All Press Coffee Roasters to make the usual coffees and some others; turmeric lattes, matcha lattes etc. Our customers are loyal dog lovers, entrepreneurs, creatives and have become good friends. We do around 150-250 covers at peak times.
What’s needed!
We are looking for a passionate Chef who enjoys working with seasonal, fresh produce and can follow a set menu of up to 15 simple brunch-style dishes and create around 7 healthy, interesting and beautiful counter menu items – sweet and savoury muffins, salads and imaginative tray Bakes, independently.
Our café is a destination as one of the few places that serves gluten free and dairy free options, and welcomes intolerances. We would like the chef to take this on board and embrace the challenge!
We’re looking for someone who wants a very kind work-life balance; 7am-4pm
(including weekends) 5 shifts per week
Passionate about food and working with seasonal fresh produce
Have some knowledge about gluten free /dairy free/vegan/vegetarian diets
Willing to embrace special dietary requirements!
Prep and plan ahead for set menu of breakfast/brunch dishes – around 15 throughout the week
Plan ahead to think of and make orders for; attractive and interesting counter menu daily, with gluten free, dairy free customers in mind!
Daily counter menu planning and preparation including, but not limited to savoury and sweet muffins, tray Bakes and salads
Look after produce appropriately by cleaning fresh ingredients, storing, expiry dates and stock rotation
Independently prep and manage orders during service
Be calm and confident whilst paying attention to detail and presentation in an often quick paced small kitchen, especially during weekends
Be a clean, tidy and organised chef!
Take on some kitchen porter duties when required
Consider finances when making orders – e.g minimum spending, maximum spending and stock rotation
Communicate with other café site to balance stock
For all our staff…
• Fantastic work-life balance with kind shift-hours, no one is getting home at 1am!
• Food and drink allowance on shift -have a coffee and some avo and feta
• We love you - employees have a monthly catch-up, (‘1-2-1’) with their manager to see how you are, how we are, and what we can do. It is important to us to keep you happy.
• Lots of potential for industry progression in a growing company
• We have open discussion staff meetings and will listen to all suggestions as a team.
• We use ‘Perk-Box’ - an app that gives free things and discounts to our staff. E.g. Free phone insurance (very important!), meals out around London, lot’s of retail brands, tech brands and cinemas.
• Monthly staff parties for both restaurants- we’ve wined, dined, bowled, forgotten our woes and had a smashing time.
• Bi-weekly pay
• An opportunity to be part of the ‘IF’ fund. If you have a fantastic entrepreneurial idea or project that can be developed as part of the Bach company, you can send proposals and manage the process!