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Junior Sous Chef - Leatherhead

Employer
Peach Pub Company
Location
Leatherhead, Surrey
Salary
Salary Package up to £26,000
Closing date
8 Mar 2018

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Job Details

Junior Sous Chef - The Duke of Wellington, Leatherhead

Rewards and Benefits

  • Fun and Professional work environment
  • Dedicated training and career progression
  • Support and encouragement to ensure you achieve your goals, ambitions, awards and qualifications
  • Opportunities to attend Peach Adventure Days, learning more about The Good Stuff we serve e.g. Jimmy Butlers Pigs, Scallop fishing, Laverstoke Mozzarella
  • Performance related incentives, for you and your team
  • Extra shift allowance
  • Christmas day off
  • Invite to Peach Fest, our yearly Team Festival event, with live music, DJ’s, food and drink

Outline of Role Expectations

As Sous Chef you’ll be supporting the Head Chef in all areas of the kitchen as well as deputising in his absence. You’ll be creative and passionate about food and relish the opportunity to work with great seasonal produce and highest quality ingredients from across the UK. As a natural leader you’ll inspire and manage the more junior members of the team and will be organised in your approach to their development.

As well as motivating the kitchen team, you will enthuse and share your knowledge Front of House during daily briefings. In line with our culture and with a number of open kitchens throughout Peach you’ll have the ability to stay calm when the pressure mounts. No Gordon Ramsey’s here!

We expect high standards in all our kitchens so you’ll be able to demonstrate full knowledge of a wide range of cooking methods as expected at this level and be confident creating premium dishes and executing daily specials.

Here’s a taste of our ‘Food Rules’ and some of our Food Heroes to give a better understanding of Peach:

  • We believe in Honest Plates of Food that are pleasing to the eye. Dishes that show the skill, care & pride that went into it.
  • We run busy Gastropubs, serving lots of dishes at pace. That means three or four good things, not ten processes.  Keep it simple and do it well.
  • Our Heroes: Rowley Leigh, Simon Hopkinson, Peter Gordon, Yotam Ottolenghi, Gary Rhodes, Raymond Blanc, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall  Jamie Oliver & Tom Kerridge

Day to day:

  • Negotiating with suppliers and driving quality, and strengthen relationships
  • Produce menus to standard, running the kitchen to holding the brigade to account
  • Organise and hold meetings for team, good communicator and inspirer
  • Using food and cleaning order sheets to avoid running of or accumulating stock
  • Demonstrate understanding of seasons
  • Writing of specials
  • Understanding of food cost and achievement of GP
  • Ensure HACCAP and all legal documents are accurate and up to date
  • Ability to write rota to ensure staffing levels are correct and wage cost is achieved
  • Ensure an organised kitchen, with accurate MEP sheets
  • Knowledge of relevant kitchen language, ingredients cost and selling price
  • Live the Peach Values

In Peach we believe Great Hosting and Serving the Good Stuff is an art and we strive to achieve the best in all of our award winning pubs.

Our belief is simple, share the business with those who work in it and give people the opportunity to work their way right up the ladder, and eventually have the opportunity to invest so they can have a part of the whole – we call this the Route to Partnership. If you’re happy, our Guests are happy.

It's a Peachy World. Together we work hard, play hard and share the rewards. 

Company

Peach began in 2002 when we opened The Rose & Crown in Warwick, believing every town deserves a great pub. Well-kept beer, a quality steak cooked by a proper chef and a glass of decent wine is a recipe for happiness, especially when served with a kind word and a sense of fun.

Since then we have added pubs ancient and modern, neighbourhood locals and country destinations, simple bedrooms and a chic boutique hotel, cocktails, grand gins and ever-improving coffee.

Today we have twenty pubs in lovely towns and villages – and an undimmed devotion to making life Peachy.

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