Sous Chef

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:

• Quarterly bonus

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Flexitime
• On-site parking
• Referral programme
• Store discount