What You’ll Do
The Sous Chef assists the Executive Chef in providing our guests with best-in-class, off-the-chart, rockstar-level meals by leading the Kitchen Team and supervising all venue culinary activities. It requires two important skill sets - culinary management and great leadership.
The Executive Sous Chef, under the direction of the Executive Chef, supervises, trains, coaches, and drives engagement with their team to ensure the highest-quality culinary experience for our guests. They also manage the culinary operations - scheduling labour, managing inventory, ordering product, ensuring high levels of Food Hygiene compliance, maintaining kitchen areas and maintaining supplier relationships.
The Sous Chef may be responsible for either day-to-day operations on the line or events execution.
How You’ll Do It
- Supervise the team in providing best-in-class culinary experiences
- Coach and develop the team and drive Associate engagement
- Delegate tasks and work with your team
- Demonstrate Topgolf’s Core Values: Fun, One Team, Excellence, Edgy Spirit and Caring
- Monitor stock and purchase product
- Maintain food and labour costs according to budget, with a full understanding of COGS / GP
- Standardise production recipes to ensure consistent quality
- Maintain quality standards and specs
- Plan and cost menus for special events, chef choice menus
- Ensure proper equipment operation and maintenance
- Oversee Food Hygiene Compliance
- Create action plans to respond to opportunities
- Communicate and effectively partner with upper management, Home Office Leadership and suppliers
What We’re Looking For
- Significant experience in high volume, culinary operations
- Proven ability to develop a culinary team
- Relevant Culinary qualification
- Food Hygiene Level 3 Certification
- Experience working in a fast paced environment
- Up to £32,000 base salary + 10% Bonus (Paid Quarterly)
- Previous experience as a CDP, Head Chef or Sous Chef
You will be required to provide a valid Proof of Right to Work in the UK. This can be a valid Passport OR Birth Certificate along with your National Insurance Documentation (both must be present) OR another form of valid right to work documentation'. As applicable you must have a minimum of 6 months’ work eligibility available on the right to work documentation that you provide.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: Up to £32,000.00 per year
Additional pay:
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Flexitime
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Store discount
