Cafe Chef

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Chef with hospitality experience to join one of our lively café kitchens. Your daily operations will include kitchen preparation, food storage, and delivering delicious food that keeps our customers happy, satisfied, and coming back for more. It's all part of making every day a little better for them, and for us.

You will bring experience of working in a similarly busy environment to Tesco, where you will become a café menu expert keen to share your knowledge with the team. From health and safety to limiting food waste, you will understand the importance of every detail and inspire your team to deliver outstanding food quality and speed of service.

Tesco Cafés are a place to get on. We believe in creating a great environment for colleagues to work and providing opportunities for everyone to be at their best. With your previous experience, you will help to deliver skills as you build an inclusive place where people feel respected, safe and valued. In doing so you will grow as a leader and develop your skills and experience as part of our friendly team.

Please note that you need to be 18 or over to apply for this role.

What is in it for you

Alongside a fantastic work life balance, we offer excellent benefits that help make the Café a great place to work. These include:

• 10% off and 15% at pay day weekends; save up to £2,000 a year with your Colleague Clubcard and an additional card to share with family outside your home.
• Flexible working from day one.
• Retirement savings plan.
• Life Assurance.
• Access to free wellbeing services with a range of resources to support your mind, body and life.
• An exclusive deals and discounts website saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for your family, eating out and utility bills for the home.
• Uniform provided and policies to support you for all of life's moments, big and small.
• Holiday starting at 28 days (including Bank Holidays).
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds.

Responsibilities

• Storage and preparation in line with food safety and hygiene regulations.
• Deliver timely, tasty food to customers whilst maintaining great standards and food served to specification.
• Identify new and better ways of working to keep improving services for customers and colleagues.
• Ensure health and safety and food safety requirements are met.
• Understand the key drivers of our service plan and deliver to the required standard.

Qualifications

• A background in hospitality.
• Experience of remaining productive in a high pressure environment.
• A commitment to excellent customer service.
• A desire to create an inclusive work environment where colleagues feel respected, safe and valued.
• Good planning and organisation skills.
• Confidence using initiative to identify opportunities to improve how we work or adapt to different situations.
• Excellent communication skills to motivate and support a growing team.

About us

With 329 cafés across the country and counting, our teams work closely to ensure the customer experience is to the best standard and service; no two days are ever the same! Tesco Cafés are a great place to work, with a genuine family feel - truly a place to get on.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture where everyone is welcome and can be themselves. We celebrate diversity and strive to create a workforce that reflects our customers both in the UK and worldwide. Our aim is to attract and welcome a diverse range of applicants from all walks of life, offering many varying working patterns across our business and we would love to hear from you.

We know life looks a little different for each of us. That's why at Tesco we always welcome chats about flexible working. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life changing moments such as becoming a carer, nearing retirement or adapting to parenthood.

We're proud to have been accredited as a Disability Confident Leader and are committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

On occasions where we have high volumes of applicants, some roles may close earlier than the advertised end date in order to manage applications effectively. Individual feedback will only be offered to selected candidates.