to join a passionate, supportive, and successful dining team at Pizzeria & Pasqua, all within our iconic Knightsbridge store.
As a Pizza Chef, you’ll be preparing pizza from scratch by understanding the working methods, fermentation processes and cooking techniques. You’ll be responsible for the operation and organisation of the kitchen by setting daily production levels and guidelines and delegating to the team. In this role, you’ll be managing the planning and forecasting of stock levels and orders, always ensuring compliance to all internal systems including SAP, and Workday. You’ll guarantee that Food Safety standards are adhered to by enforcing the high standard of hygiene and sanitation in all food-related outlets.
You’ll have a strong track record of hospitality experience, preferably within a prestigious pizzeria or high-end Italian restaurant. Having a great knowledge and passion for food and drink is essential. You’ll be able to make different pizza doughs with different kinds of hydration and operate and bake pizza using traditional wood fired oven.
You’ll have great time-management skills and a strong customer focus when dealing with both internal and external parties. You’ll have exceptional interpersonal skills and a good attention to detail, which will be evident through paperwork completed, organisation of department and sufficient stock levels. Having good PC literacy is a must (Word, Excel and preferably SAP).
As the world’s leading luxury retail emporium, we make the impossible possible, and our hospitality offer is evolving and expanding rapidly across our stores. We are a welcoming and close-knit family who are passionate about food and beverage and aim to craft dining experiences that are the highlight of our customers’ visits.
In return for your hard work as a Pizza Chef, you’ll learn every aspect of working in a busy, premier kitchen and will receive some great benefits including:
Competitive salary up to £16ph (made up from generous base salary plus service charge)*
Sociable working hours
30 days annual leave (including bank holidays) + birthday off
Up to 33% in-store discount
Generous pension
Great learning and development opportunities to help further your career.