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What is the job?

Are you ready for a role running a kitchen where you actually get a work/life balance? Yes, this is right!

If you are an experienced chef that has managed teams at a multi outlet venue and feel like it’s time to stop doing the crazy long hours and to flex your creative muscle, you could be a great fit for the Head Chef vacancy at Picturehouse Central in Piccadilly Circus.

You will work closely with the General Manager to ensure that our guests experience joy through the unforgettable experiences your food creates for them, whether that's in the restaurant, bar, café or at an event.

What do you get?

* £45,000 base salary + discretionary annual bonus

* 40 hours per week

* Free tickets for you and your friends/family + in cinema discounts, with your own Premiere Pass card!

* Picturehouse offers a wide variety of benefits; early pay access, all employees are entitled to 28 days holiday per year (pro rata), Virtual GP, savings on restaurants, gyms and high street brands, cash back healthcare plan, eye care scheme and loads more!

* In addition to this we also offer retail incentives and in house competitions where you can win amazing prizes!

What will you be doing?

* You will be overseeing all Kitchen operations, including designing and delivering menus for the restaurant, bar, café and wide variety of events hosted onsite in collaboration with the Commercial Team at Head Office; whilst still being hands on and working with the wider kitchen team to fulfil orders that come to the pass.

* You will be using your leadership experience to motivate and impassion your team to continuously strive for the highest level of food hygiene standards, preparation, presentation and delivery from the kitchen to provide our customers with unforgettable experiences.

* You will be managing the commercial aspects of running a kitchen which includes creating rotas, managing produce orders & deliveries and managing the financial margins for the kitchen to ensure commercial success.

About you

* You no longer want to be in the hectic lifestyle of a typical Head Chef role and would appreciate a work-life balance with no long-split shifts and you’re given the creative freedom to build menus and run your kitchen.

* You are someone that has good experience and enjoys managing a small but passionate kitchen team empowering them to deliver unforgettable food experiences, whilst collaborating with other key business stakeholders.

* You have demonstrable experience of building and delivering menus for multi-outlet venues, small or large.

* You are comfortable with the general running of a kitchen, building rotas, ordering and raising POs with our suppliers, upholding food safety standards, managing budgets and the kitchen's financial operating margin.

* You will be a great fit, if our values resonate with you: We Create, We Perform, We Inspire.

Who are Picturehouse?

Working at Picturehouse…just a whole load of Cinema’s, right? Wrong!

Picturehouse Cinemas is so much more than screens and popcorn! As part of the Regal Cineworld Group, we are cinemas in the heart of neighbourhoods, ingraining ourselves within local communities as social hubs; dedicated to 'sharing joy through extraordinary experiences'.

Each of our architecturally unique venues are places to eat, meet and relax, supplemented with a wide variety of productions ranging from live streamed Opera through to immersive showings of the big blockbusters, plus the best of cinema from around the world and more.

With an office in central London and cinemas countrywide we have a variety of roles that see our people working on either a hybrid or field based/remote basis.

One thing we pride ourselves on at the Regal Cineworld Group is our people and being able to support our people to pursue the career paths they want within the Cineworld & Picturehouse brands. We help YOU grow.

Do you feel like you don’t have all the experience listed but would love to explore a career at Cineworld? Please still contact the careers team via the website. We understand that confidence gaps and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting incredible candidates, and we wouldn’t want this to prevent us from meeting you