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Guest experience Head Chef
The Newt in Somerset
Guest experience Head Chef
The Newt in Somerset
Full Time
£37000 / Year
Full Time
£37000 / Year
Skills
Menu Development
Culinary Degree/Training
Food Safety
Team management
Revenue-driven
Description
Guest Experience Head Chef - The Newt in Somerset
The Newt in Somerset is a country estate with ancient woodland, historic gardens and far-reaching views; a new and unique destination with luxury hotel, spa, restaurants and an abundance of homegrown produce. Visitors can take a tour of the gardens, deer park and cyder press, dine in the Garden Café or browse our farm shops. Attracting some 200,000 visitors per year from all over the world, our vibrant and thriving garden attraction is animated throughout the seasons by special events, workshops and educational programmes.
£37,000 per annum plus fantastic benefits and annual performance bonus
The Newt in Somerset
The Newt in Somerset is a country estate with ancient woodland, historic gardens and far-reaching views; a new and unique destination with luxury hotel, spa, restaurants and an abundance of homegrown produce. Visitors can take a tour of the gardens, deer park and cyder press, dine in the Garden Café or browse our farm shops. Attracting some 200,000 visitors per year from all over the world, our vibrant and thriving garden attraction is animated throughout the seasons by special events, workshops and educational programmes.
Department Description
Food and Beverage in the Visitor Attraction is our welcome to our estate, it is a dynamic department encompassing all food and beverage offer to our loyal members and day visitors and the food and beverage for our specialist events throughout the year. Not a restaurant in the traditional sense but this department produces food and experiences in a variety of ways. Including for our cyder bar, Garden Lates, day picnics, regular pop up’s, large specialist events, plus the Roman Villa.
Key responsibilities:
- This role requires a dynamic and organised person, you will lead a team to deliver a wide range of experiences across the estate working with our head of food and other kitchen teams
- You will be a leader with a passion for developing and delivering simple fresh innovative food
- Working to the culinary brief you will be a responsible for presenting plans to the senior team and execution of multiple food offers consistently across the Visitor Experience portfolio
- A driven cook and natural organiser, comfortable managing the day to day in a kitchen with one eye on the future with meticulous forward planning.
- Be responsible for the food safety and profitability of your own department
- You will seek opportunity to increase revenues and deliver to key business metrics
- Working alongside our head of food and other kitchens across the estate you will be responsible for driving the food culture and standards of the newts most exclusive events
Skills and Experience:
- Experienced cook in multiple formats
- Excellent communicator and natural collaborator
- Excellent time management, ensuring all deadlines are hit and timelines are on track
- Strong financial acumen to create a consistent income for the department and manage costs in line with the budget
- Self-motivated and a strong sense of accountability
- Be able to motivate and direct different teams of individuals from across the estate
- Ability to see the bigger picture of the overarching project to align all parties
- Ability to continually improve the current Estate Events and Visitor Experience kitchens that are in keeping with the Newt’s identity
Excellent Benefits package available from day one including:
- Cross-training opportunities across the Estate
- Regular supplier team trips
- Work/Life balance
- Access to chef-specific training sessions
- Chef shoes after 3 month service
- Uniform supplied
- Free, fresh meals on duty. Created each day by our staff food chefs
- Garden Membership
- 15% online shop discount and free delivery
- 30% discount in the shops across the estate
- 30% discount at restaurants across the estate
- 30% discount on Newt cyder and Babylonstoren wine
- 50% discount in the Spa
- Discounted hotel stays for staff
- Family Events 3 times per year
Guest Experience Head Chef - The Newt in Somerset
The Newt in Somerset is a country estate with ancient woodland, historic gardens and far-reaching views; a new and unique destination with luxury hotel, spa, restaurants and an abundance of homegrown produce. Visitors can take a tour of the gardens, deer park and cyder press, dine in the Garden Café or browse our farm shops. Attracting some 200,000 visitors per year from all over the world, our vibrant and thriving garden attraction is animated throughout the seasons by special events, workshops and educational programmes.
£37,000 per annum plus fantastic benefits and annual performance bonus
The Newt in Somerset
The Newt in Somerset is a country estate with ancient woodland, historic gardens and far-reaching views; a new and unique destination with luxury hotel, spa, restaurants and an abundance of homegrown produce. Visitors can take a tour of the gardens, deer park and cyder press, dine in the Garden Café or browse our farm shops. Attracting some 200,000 visitors per year from all over the world, our vibrant and thriving garden attraction is animated throughout the seasons by special events, workshops and educational programmes.
Department Description
Food and Beverage in the Visitor Attraction is our welcome to our estate, it is a dynamic department encompassing all food and beverage offer to our loyal members and day visitors and the food and beverage for our specialist events throughout the year. Not a restaurant in the traditional sense but this department produces food and experiences in a variety of ways. Including for our cyder bar, Garden Lates, day picnics, regular pop up’s, large specialist events, plus the Roman Villa.
Key responsibilities:
- This role requires a dynamic and organised person, you will lead a team to deliver a wide range of experiences across the estate working with our head of food and other kitchen teams
- You will be a leader with a passion for developing and delivering simple fresh innovative food
- Working to the culinary brief you will be a responsible for presenting plans to the senior team and execution of multiple food offers consistently across the Visitor Experience portfolio
- A driven cook and natural organiser, comfortable managing the day to day in a kitchen with one eye on the future with meticulous forward planning.
- Be responsible for the food safety and profitability of your own department
- You will seek opportunity to increase revenues and deliver to key business metrics
- Working alongside our head of food and other kitchens across the estate you will be responsible for driving the food culture and standards of the newts most exclusive events
Skills and Experience:
- Experienced cook in multiple formats
- Excellent communicator and natural collaborator
- Excellent time management, ensuring all deadlines are hit and timelines are on track
- Strong financial acumen to create a consistent income for the department and manage costs in line with the budget
- Self-motivated and a strong sense of accountability
- Be able to motivate and direct different teams of individuals from across the estate
- Ability to see the bigger picture of the overarching project to align all parties
- Ability to continually improve the current Estate Events and Visitor Experience kitchens that are in keeping with the Newt’s identity
Excellent Benefits package available from day one including:
- Cross-training opportunities across the Estate
- Regular supplier team trips
- Work/Life balance
- Access to chef-specific training sessions
- Chef shoes after 3 month service
- Uniform supplied
- Free, fresh meals on duty. Created each day by our staff food chefs
- Garden Membership
- 15% online shop discount and free delivery
- 30% discount in the shops across the estate
- 30% discount at restaurants across the estate
- 30% discount on Newt cyder and Babylonstoren wine
- 50% discount in the Spa
- Discounted hotel stays for staff
- Family Events 3 times per year
Guest experience Head Chef
Full Time
£37000 / Year
Skills
Menu Development
Culinary Degree/Training
Food Safety
Team management
Revenue-driven
expired job post
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