Vacancies

General Manager This beautiful garden centre has a popular restaurant with a lovely terrace and small huts in the gardens offering private dining for up to 6 guests in each one. They offer a varied menu including British classics through to more adventurous Mediterranean dishes. They open for breakfast, lunch, afternoon teas and a comprehensive drink offering. This is a high-volume site where you will be responsible for the smooth running of all front of house operations. Benefits include: -Generous salary -Sociable working hours 08:00 to 17:30 -Free on-site parking -Food -Private healthcare -Pension scheme -Generous staff discounts of up to 25% off products in store - Main responsibilities: •Overseeing the day to day running of a large, extremely busy restaurant & smaller bistro. •Maintain organisation within a busy environment catering for up to 300 covers. •Communicating with the kitchen to ensure a smooth service. •Staff training and development will be an essential part of the role. •25-30 staff on a service, 75 members of the team working various shift patterns. •Give direction and have strong leadership skills. •Keeping morale high during a busy service. •Maintain consistency of product throughout. The ideal candidate will possess: •Experience in a similar busy catering environment with a high volume of customers. •Awareness of COSHH regulations, chemical safety, and HACCP standards. •Experience of food safety and hygiene laws, health and safety and allergen regulations. •Ability to remain calm under pressure. •Flexible, positive, and adaptable team player. •High level of attention to detail.

Sous Chef – fresh, seasonal cuisine – 43,500 – award winning cuisine – An exciting opportunity to join a small, independently owned hotel. This family run business has flourished over the years, expanding, and developing their food offering and gaining plenty of awards and accolades along the way. Benefits include: Generous salary + excellent tips Professional team where each individual matters Low staff turnover Opportunity to influence the menus Fresh, local & seasonal cuisine Accommodation should it be required With a brigade of 7 chefs, you will be catering for the award-winning brasserie restaurant, the lounge bar and small function facilities. The menus are modern European, and everything is prepared from fresh, seasonal produce, all locally sourced where possible. The successful Sous Chef will assist the head Chef with the day to day running of the kitchen designing the menus, sourcing suppliers, training, developing, and motivating the staff. With an ambitious management team, they are always looking to develop the business further and will offer their full support. Due to this excellent reputation, they have built up for fine food and premium drinks it is an extremely busy establishment so previous experience of cooking first class cuisine, in a high-volume kitchen will be essential. 8677

PASTRY CHEFS – talented & creative – all levels required - £22-33,000. Ashdown Appointments have a number of vacancies for talented and creative pastry chefs looking for their next career move. The venues vary from high end hotels, award winning restaurants, lively brasseries and popular pubs with dining rooms. All looking for enthusiastic individuals who are passionate about their craft. The positions range from Commis Chef level through to Head Pastry Chefs who can run a section and manage a team. So, the experience required will vary depending on the role you are applying for. However, for all roles you must love cooking and be committed to your career as a Pastry Chef. To find out more about our selection of pastry chef roles please forward your CV.