Area Chef Manager - Bristol

About us:

Our Client is a market leading contract catering company specialising in school food. By combining their understanding of the education sector and their knowledge of what’s on trend in the food world, they encourage creativity and excitement in their kitchens, allowing teams to do what they do best and provide fantastic food experiences for the children.

By providing excellent care and services to both clients and children, they have ensured the successful growth of the company and to keep up with the rapid pace of this growth, we are now looking for an experienced Operations Manager to join the team.

The role:

Our client is seeking an ambitious Area Chef Manager, ready to take full operational and financial responsibility for the catering facility of the schools within your region! This role goes beyond the kitchen - it requires a visionary leader with the flair and originality to consistently deliver the highest quality food and service, elevating the dining experience and establishing this as one of the best school catering offers in the region!

Your responsibilities will include:

• Financial Control: Managing and improving all controllable costs, including stock, food and labour.

• Team Leadership: Lead, coach, train and inspire your kitchen team to deliver excellence every day.

• Culinary Innovation: Oversee menu development and drive sales through exciting monthly promotions and added-value events.

• Quality Assurance: Guarantee all standards, systems and essential legislation are met through regular audits and proactive management.

• 30 hours per week
• 38 weeks per year
• £16.50 per hour

About you:

They are looking for a passionate leader who is ready to drive excellence and profitability. If you’re hungry for a role where you can fully own the operation, you’ll need: 

•  A strong understanding of Gross Profit (GP) management and the strategic know-how to smash sales targets.

• You have fantastic craft skills with a genuine commitment to using fresh ingredients to deliver exceptional quality food.

• Motivational Leader: Proven experience in line management—you know how to coach, motivate, and inspire to develop a high-performing team.

• Excellent knowledge of health and safety practices.

• A full UK driving licence 

• A qualification like OND/HND is a bonus, but your on-the-job experience is what we’re truly after

Why join them?

As one of the UK's fastest growing independent businesses you'll be joining a company where people are at our core and the opportunity to develop your career is endless. They offer fantastic learning and development programmes and the ability to gain qualifications whilst supporting you all the way

We understand that the health and wellbeing of our employees is vital so as well as a competitive salary and car allowance/car, we've just launched our brand new benefits programme which includes the important things like private healthcare and enhanced parental leave, ways to save money and the opportunity to spend your birthday doing something special to you rather than working!

Please note, our client expects all staff to share our commitment of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children/young people so an enhanced DBS disclosure will be sought by the company

Pineapple Recruitment are recruiting for this role on behalf of our client and are acting as a Recruitment Agency.