About the location
The Cottage Loaf is a lively and popular food led pub in the heart of the Victorian seaside town of Llandudno, well known for its constantly evolving menu of fresh, local, interesting dishes.
It is part of the Stange & Co pub group, an expanding family company that puts its teams first. We realise it’s our teams and their hard work that make our pubs as successful as they are.
Job Description
We are incredibly proud of our talented chefs and recognise and encourage passion and creativity within our kitchen teams. We are looking for a deputy head chef with bags of enthusiasm and a healthy helping of flair and creativity to help lead our kitchen. Fine dining, we are not, but quality well executed fresh food is very much what we’re about. Our food is fresh, hearty and interesting, with a menu that reflects the seasons & our location, which helps ensures sustainability and prevents our customers and kitchen team getting bored.
Our constantly evolving menu is a combination of well-loved classics and more interesting dishes taking influence from all over the world. You’ll work alongside the head chef and general manager to create this menu and will be given the opportunity to develop some of your own dishes and indulge your passions.
What's in it for you?
- An extremely competitive salary which will regularly be reviewed to reflect and recognise your progression, skills and experience
- Easily achievable monthly chefs Incentive bonus
- Generous Tips
- Full Company sick pay after 2 years’ service
- Enhanced company parental pay
- Guaranteed Christmas day off every year to enjoy with your family and friends
- Flexible working hours to help achieve a healthy work life balance
- Discounted food rates – up to 50% off at all company sites
- Discounted accommodation rates – up to 50% off at all company sites
- Access to confidential and expert health & well-being, financial and legal advice through our Employee Assistance Programme with Hospitality Action
- Up to £1500 for referring a friend to join our team
- Long service rewards and annual recognition
- Christmas staff social event – celebrate the festive season with your work friends on us
What we're looking for:
A creative and talented chef with a passion for working with fresh ingredients from local suppliers, a passion for helping to lead and develop a great team and above all else, a passion for cooking imaginative dishes for our customers. Our head chefs have plenty of autonomy in how they run their kitchens. They create their own menus and always welcome ideas from the whole of the team. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced senior sous, looking for an exciting and challenging role.
Previous experience of working in a similar kitchen is essential as we know you’ll have the attitude and work ethos we’re looking for – a deputy head chef who shares our love of everything foody and brings passion and flair to the kitchen.
Whilst our plan is very much to grow, this will be well considered, and opportunity led growth. We’re certainly not striving to hit a number at any cost and then sell out to private equity or a big plc. We’re in it for the long term, as we have been for the last 100 years or so….
Due to our size you’ll very much be part of the family and not just a number, but thankfully we’re big enough to be able to offer all our teams, the support needed in running busy popular pubs, as and when required.
Who we are:
- A family run company with 11 pubs across the Wirral, North & Mid Wales areas, who take great pride in each one of them, and the teams who make them tick.
- A company who genuinely believes in treating everyone with equal respect & dignity regardless, also having a genuine concern for the happiness and well-being of every single member of our teams
- A company who strive to put their pubs at the heart of their communities, and improving those places by them being there.
- Stange & Co are accredited by Investors in People.
- A company whose aim is ‘ To Improve people’s lives, by striving to run great pubs’
Apply for this role
If this position is of interest and you’d like to be a part of our friendly team, working with a great bunch of like-minded people we’d love to hear from you.
Apply for Deputy Head Chef
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