The Indian Cuisine Chef is required to know well about Indian cuisines including Curry, Vegetarian and/or Tandoori and to cook fantastic meals with your talent at all times.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Preparation, cooking and presenting dishes within your specialty
- Assist with stock ordering and monitoring procedures
- Maintain high standards of food hygiene and health & safety at all times
- Participate fully in all meetings, training and forums
- Take responsibility for your own personal development
- Demonstrate excellent food preparation practices, portion control and end to end food production
- Supporting the Head Chef to deliver on all company measures & targets
- Follow all company operational kitchen process and procedures, achieving all required standards
- Take responsibility for delivering the highest measures of food production and presentation to customers including manning the live cooking stations if required
- Monitor food consumption to ensure 100% customer satisfaction and minimum waste
- Support the Head Chef in the introduction of new seasonal dishes
- Cascade your knowledge and expert cooking to all kitchen staff
- Suggested innovation and commercially viable ideas to improve food quality
- Monitoring portion and waste control to maintain profit margins
- Perform any reasonable duties as required from time to time in order to contribute to the achievement of business aims and objectives
Key Behaviours:
- Expertise in Tandoori, Curry and/or Vegetarian cooking
- Thrives under pressure in a high volume food environment
- Possess/develop a food & customer focused approach to work
- High standard of personal hygiene
- Detailed and precise working
- High level of enthusiasm and drive to achieve high standards
- Hard working, flexible and prepared for change
- Ambitious and driven by over exceeding customer expectations
- Open for continual development
- Excellent interpersonal skills
Relevant Experience:
- Experience in a similar style of cooking
- Excellent knowledge of relevant food and health & safety regulations
