About the Role
As a Senior Chef, you’ll be a specialist in creating the best Neapolitan Pizza’s, ensuring every guest leaves satisfied and eager to return. You will also be responsible for team leadership, health & safety compliance, stock management, successful guest pizza launches, kitchen maintenance, and maintaining pizza quality.
Responsibilities
- Team leadership
- Heath & safety compliance
- Stock management
- Successful guest pizza launches
- Kitchen maintenance management
- Pizza quality
Requirements
- Representing our values is just as important as skills.
- ‘Push Yourself’ because we believe learning new skills and coming out of your comfort zone will help us improve as a team.
- ‘Be Yourself’ means you can bring your own personality to work.
- ‘Respect Others’ because everyone is welcome at Pilgrims and we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment where people feel they belong.
- ‘Enjoy Yourself’ because hospitality is an industry we love, and we want every Pilgrim to create happiness for each other and to have fun at work.
Location
- Westfield Stratford
Work Type
- Full-time
Salary/Compensations
- £14.95 ph +tronc
Benefits
- Serious career development - We are opening 5 pizzerias this year & next.
- On top of the standard 28 days holiday (full time), you will get an extra day for every year you work for us (up to 5 Years).
- After 5 years with us, you get a paid 4-week sabbatical on top of your 33 days holiday!
- 1 extra day holiday as “Happiness Day’ so you can do something that you love and makes you happy about outside of work.
- Team trips to Naples & beyond to meet suppliers & try new pizzerias
- A tasty bonus every time you refer a friend to join.
- Free food & espresso every day - whole menu available & also deals with other restaurants
- A free after-work drinks (soft, beer or gin)
- 2 huge company-wide parties every year to celebrate Christmas and Ferragosto (We close all the pizzerias for these!)
- Free pizza when you visit any Pizza Pilgrims when you are not at work for you & up to 3 friends.
About the Company
- In 2012, Thom & James drove a Piaggio ape Tuk Tuk all the way from Sicily to London on a 'Pilgrimage' to learn the secrets of perfect Italian pizza.
- Nowadays we have over 20 award-winning pizzerias across the UK, we’ve got our own Pizza Academy where we run training workshops every day, and we’re also a BCORP - something we’re extremely proud about achieving.
- We pride ourselves on using the best ingredients from Naples including Caputo flour, fresh fior di latte, salsiccia e friarielle , to make the best Neapolitan pizza every day.
- At Pizza Pilgrims, we aspire to create an inclusive environment where everyone can be themselves, feel genuinely cared for and have equal opportunities for growth and progression.
- We are committed to building a diverse team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives; which creates proper happiness, just like our pizzas do!
- We work hard because we think pizza makes people happier.
Equal Opportunity
- At Pizza Pilgrims, we aspire to create an inclusive environment where everyone can be themselves, feel genuinely cared for and have equal opportunities for growth and progression.
- We are committed to building a diverse team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives; which creates proper happiness, just like our pizzas do!
