Kitchen Manager - High-Volume Restaurant Group

📍 Location: UK (Various Opportunities Available)

💰 Competitive Salary + Bonus + Benefits

🍔 Ready to lead a fast-paced, high-performing kitchen?

We're partnering with a well-established, high-volume hospitality group known for delivering fresh, high-quality food and exceptional guest experiences.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Kitchen Manager / Head Chef to take full ownership of a busy kitchen, lead a passionate team, and drive standards across food quality, service, and performance.

🚀 The Role

As Kitchen Manager, you'll be at the heart of the operation - leading from the front during service, developing your team, and ensuring every dish meets the highest standards.

You'll take responsibility for:

* Delivering consistently high-quality food in a fast-paced environment

* Leading, coaching, and developing a high-performing kitchen team

* Driving efficient service during peak trading periods

* Managing stock, ordering, and minimising waste

* Ensuring full compliance with food safety, hygiene, and health & safety standards

* Collaborating with front-of-house to deliver a seamless guest experience

👥 Team Leadership

You'll play a key role in building and shaping your team by:

* Recruiting and onboarding new team members

* Coaching and developing talent to support internal progression

* Driving engagement, performance, and retention

* Managing rotas in line with business needs and labour targets

* Handling performance and employee relations matters where required

📊 Commercial & Operational Focus

This role goes beyond the kitchen—you'll also:

* Manage food costs, labour, and kitchen performance against targets

* Analyse KPIs and implement improvements

* Maintain excellent audit results and hygiene standards (targeting 5⭐ ratings)

* Ensure effective stock control and availability

✅ What We're Looking For

* Proven experience as a Kitchen Manager, Head Chef

* Background in high-volume, branded hospitality or QSR environments

* Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate and inspire teams

* Excellent organisational skills and ability to perform under pressure

* Solid understanding of food safety, compliance, and kitchen operations

* Commercial awareness and confidence working with budgets and KPIs

🌟 What's in it for you?

* Competitive salary + performance-related bonus

* Clear progression opportunities within a growing business

* Structured training and development programmes

* Supportive leadership and a people-focused culture

* The chance to lead a fast-paced, dynamic kitchen environment

👇 Apply now

If you're a driven kitchen leader looking for your next challenge in a high-energy, growth-focused business, we'd love to hear from you