Head Chef

Our client is the leading Casino operator in the UK and our venues offer the very best quality gaming and leisure experience in an environment committed to safer gambling. We aim to excite and entertain all our customers giving them a memorable experience they will want to return for.

Our casinos are an exciting and rewarding place to work with roles across all aspects of gaming and customer service with opportunities to develop your existing skills and learn new ones. If you want to build a career in casinos that’s fine with us; as the largest operator in the UK, we have lots of opportunity and structured development programmes.

we are a 24/7 operation committed to safer gambling for our customers and building and inclusive, diverse and engaged team.

Job Description

Are you a natural foodie, and you have always found yourself in your element in a kitchen? Grosvenor Casino is looking for a Head Chef to bring together all the ingredients for culinary success in our Casino. We would like our Head Chef to lead the way in creating a venue of choice by delivering tasty, homely food through leadership of the kitchen brigade. We love new ideas for revenue generation, profitability and challenge the status quo!

Does the idea of taking a new step in your career, joining a business that values work/life balance, offers the opportunity to work in some exciting and unique venues, and has an ambitious plan to really drive our food offer forward to compete with the best in the industry ? We are currently recruiting for head chefs and want to hear from kitchen professionals who see themselves as being leaders in the next stage of our evolution.

You will;

• Acknowledge, welcome and assist customers
• Live our values of Service, Teamwork, Ambition, Responsibility and Solutions
• Collaborate and work as part of the wider casino management team
• Recruit, train, develop and retain chefs and kitchen personnel; creates plans for the team by agreed objectives and goals in appraisals and reviews
• Responsible for stock control and achieving business GP margins
• Schedules and organizes regular menu taste panels for the FOH team
• Manages and meets the expectations of the NSF, EHO and relevant audits
• Review of menus and feedback to the FB team in head office
• All menus are delivered to brand standards and menu specification
• Manages expectations behind the pass as well as in the outlets, driving customer and employee engagement.

Qualifications

• Minimum three years’ experience as a sous chef in a reputed restaurant, pub or culinary focused operation
• Advanced level certification in food safety, preferably at level 3 or higher
• Prior experience in a branded environment