Responsibilities
- Ensuring steps of service, recipe standards and cost control measures are met and adhered to.
- Ensuring the kitchen team is fully engaged with our values and kitchen culture.
- Maintaining and running of the pastry kitchen in the absence of head chefs.
- Training, and managing all members of pastry kitchen team.
- Detailed and precise communication with staff and guests in a friendly and professional manner.
- Work closely with the front of house and beverage teams.
- Maintain stock control, ensuring that stock levels are in line with company requirements.
- Involvement in production and development of dishes for all outlets, maintaining standards, through regular menu engineering maximise potential of Kitchen sales.
- Assist the development of menus and dishes is as per SOP and completed in a timely period.
- Collating recipes for new dishes, involved in cost control and implementation of seasonal menus.
- Maintaining discipline in the department whilst setting an example and mentoring junior staff.
- Monitoring training of all members of kitchen staff and assessing progress.
- Involvement in projects for benefit of kitchen advancement.
- Ensuring correct storage and labelling of food stuffs, equipment, and dry goods in all kitchen areas by people responsible.
- Ensuring correct stock rotation of food and ordering food goods from suppliers.
- Checking and ordering of equipment via correct channels.
- Report the need for maintenance of equipment via correct channels.
- Additional responsibilities in absence of line manager or senior employee.
- Performs other duties as required or assigned including working in a different department or restaurant, than usually assigned.
Requirements
- Responsible for leading and managing the pastry kitchen operations within the Raffles London OWO.
- Ensuring all food is produced and served in line with the Raffles standard of excellence whilst adhering to health and safety legislation.
- Work in close contact with all food and beverage outlet teams to ensure smooth and consistent service.
- Ability to pre-empt and deliver a luxurious and high-quality level of service whilst managing time and service targets.
- Giving training and mentorship to junior staff assisting with training and development.
- Be fully conversant with all departmental Fire, Emergency and Bomb procedures.
- Ensure the safety of the persons and the property of all within the premises, by strict adherence to existing laws, statues and applicable ordinances, and by anticipating possible and probable hazards and conditions and either correcting them or pre-planning a defence against them.
- Stimulate and encourage a general awareness of Health and Safety in relation to all tasks and activities undertaken in the department.
Work Arrangement
On-site — London
Additional Information
- Ensure that all potential and real hazards are reported immediately and rectified.
