Breakfast Chef

• Part time
• 8 hours per week
• Saturday & Sunday
• 07:30am - 11:30am
• £13.45 per hour
• Free parking
• Opportunities for career development
• Plus our Sodexo employee benefits package

Breakfast Chef

Dalston, Carlisle - Part time

A recipe for success; Serve incredible food, enjoy incredible perks.

At Sodexo, you'll belong in a team and thrive in service. We know that our talented chefs are the key to delivering exceptional service and tasteful experiences for our clients, customers, and employees.

Build a name with big-brand businesses and corporate clients, delivering high-quality nutritious meals for boardroom lunches, executive events, and daily workplace dining. This role calls for a chef who can blend maintaining excellent standards, while working efficiently in a fast-paced, trend-setting, client-focused environment.

What you'll do

• Prepare, cook and serve a high-quality breakfast service, ensuring food is presented to an excellent standard.
• Take responsibility for the day-to-day running of the kitchen during weekend breakfast service.
• Deliver a friendly and professional service, creating a positive experience for customers.
• Prepare food for breakfast service and support with preparation for the wider weekly catering operation.
• Maintain consistently high standards of food quality, presentation, hygiene and cleanliness.
• Manage food orders, stock levels, stock rotation and support stock takes to minimise waste and control costs.
• Ensure allergen information, due diligence and food safety documentation is completed accurately and kept up to date.
• Follow all requirements relating to allergens, PPDS, Food Safety, Health & Safety and COSHH.
• Ensure food production and portion control are effectively managed to support food costs and profitability.
• Make sure catering equipment is used safely, reporting any faults and removing unsafe equipment from use.
• Deal professionally with customer enquiries and feedback, taking action where possible to provide a great service.
• Support and guide catering colleagues during service, delegating tasks where appropriate to keep the kitchen running smoothly.
• Follow approved purchasing procedures and ensure food and supplies are ordered through nominated suppliers.
• Complete required catering administration and food production records accurately.
• Help maintain a safe, secure, clean and organised kitchen at all times.

What you'll bring

• Previous experience working as a Chef within a busy catering or food service environment.
• Experience preparing and delivering a high-quality breakfast service.
• A passion for food and producing consistently high-quality dishes.
• The confidence to take responsibility for a kitchen and service while working effectively with the wider catering team.
• The ability to work at pace and remain organised during busy service periods.
• Good knowledge of food safety, food hygiene and allergen controls, including an understanding of PPDS requirements.
• An understanding of stock control, food costs, waste management and portion control.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to plan and prioritise your workload.
• Great customer service and communication skills.
• A proactive approach and the confidence to make decisions when required.
• High standards of personal hygiene, cleanliness and kitchen organisation.
• An understanding of Health & Safety and COSHH requirements within a kitchen environment.
• A team-focused attitude with the willingness to support colleagues across the catering operation.
• Flexibility to meet the needs of the service, particularly for weekend breakfast service.

Why Sodexo?

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater.

Belong in a company and team that values you for you. 

Act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions.

Thrive in your own way.

We also offer a range of perks, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:

• Unlimited access to an online platform offering wellbeing support
• An extensive Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or life's larger problems, including legal and financial advice, support with work or personal issues impacting your wellbeing
• Access to a 24hr virtual GP Service
• Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 across popular big-brand retailers
• Save for your future by becoming a member of the Pension Plan
• Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools
• Bike to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit
• Sodexo UK and Irelands enhanced benefits and leave policies

A little more about Sodexo

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, SoTogether, Generations and Origins.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.

Click here to read more about what we do to promote an inclusive culture.

Ready to be part of something greater?

Feed our customers and we’ll fuel your career.

Sodexo reserves the right to close this advert early if we are in receipt of a high number of applications