Food Specialist Profile

Line Manager

Head Teaching Chef

Our Business

Our aim is to be the destination for food ideas and inspiration; engaging local community with a recipe for a better food lifestyle.

Our Core Values

Our core values are that we value simplicity and we aim to enjoy ourselves while working hard.  We ask everyone to pull together, come up with great ideas and adapt to change in order to grow with the business for the future.

The Job

Our role as food specialists is to demonstrate our passion for food and enthusiasm for Jamie's food philosophies, together with an excellent knowledge for Recipease standards and ingredients when preparing meals with our team with energy in our impeccable kitchen.

Experience

We're passionate abour food and have the confidence to talk openly to customers in an inspiring way. We have proven team-working and communication skills and we're comfortable sharing our passion for great food and ways of cooking with everyone that visits the shop. We're calm under pressure and well organised with a 'can-do' approach. We enjoy producing great quality food consistently to set recipes every day and have experience of maintaining spotless kitchens.

Main Responsibilities

+Confidently preparing great food with pace and energy, and creating quality in every Recipease meal that we make
+ Being passionate about great food and simple cooking and sharing that passion with everyone around us
+ Providing a food and kitchen emporium that is clean and inviting

Details of the Job

'Confidently preparing great food with pace and energy, and creating quality in every Recipease meal that we make.'
I am passionate about quality and excellence. When working in my Recipease kitchen I...
+ Work as part of a team; buddying up with other food specialists, helping us work smarter not harder
+ Am really careful when handling the ingredients
+ Know how to use our ingredients to create the Go meals
+ Prepare food batches and the cook line with energy and style
+ Can accurately and quickly prepare every Go meal on the menu, using the build to charts to help me
+ Inform my food champion when stock is running low and when ingredients are not the best quality
+ Know what food needs to be prepared and what meals need to be created at the start of my shift
+ Work quickly and carefully to meet my pre-set deadlines
+ Make sure that every Go meal and pizza is packaged and labelled properly
+ Control the wastage as I know that failing to do so will be an unnecessary cost to Recipease.

'Being passionate about great food and simple cooking and sharing that passion with everyone around us.'
I absolutely love great simple food. I love to share my passion when I...
+ Demonstrate my passion through everything I do at work
+ Share what I know and love with the people I work with
+ Share my experience and favourites with our customers and people in our neighbourhood
+ Run tasting and sampling sessions with the people in my team and the customers in our shop when time allows
+ Know all about our ingredients and make sure that we only use ingredients of the best quality
+ Tell people about Recipease, about Jamie's food philosophies and about Jamie's favourite dishes
+ Share what I know about how to cook with my team mates and our customers alike
+ Take pride in displaying the Go meals we have created.

'Providing a food and kitchen emporiun that is clean and inviting.'
I am proud of where I work. How my kitchen looks and feels is important to me, so I...
+ Follow all health, safety and hygiene rules required by law and by Recipease in everything I do
+ Follow the cleaning rotas to make sure we provide excellent standards of cleanliness
+ Only waste ingredients that are not up to standard
+ Make sure I check deliveries thoroughly, ensuring the supplier is nominated to work with us
+ Care about our ingredients, and make sure they are stored and rotated properly
+ Am confident when using our mechanical equipment in the kitchen, and I understand the dangers related to the equipment
+ Am quick and efficient in managing and maintaining the dish wash station
+ Can set up and close down every shift to ensure maximum efficiency
+ Am clear when I handover my shift to the next person, informing them about anything they need to complete
+ Have completed and passed all my basic food hygiene training.

This job description is a guideline only and is not exhaustive. You may be required to perform other duties which are not expressly listed but are in keeping with the general purpose of your role and we reserve the right to make changes to this job description as appropriate.