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Working at Tesco Retail

  • Company employees
    330,000+
  • Gender diversity (m:f)
    49:51

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  • United Kingdom
  • Ireland

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Join Tesco as a Cafe Chef in Coventry Walsgrave, UK. In this hands-on kitchen role, you will prepare delicious food, maintain safety standards, and help lead a friendly team in a busy cafe environment with flexible working patterns available.

Requirements

  • A background in hospitality
  • Experience working in a high-pressure environment
  • Commitment to excellent customer service and food safety regulations
  • Good planning, organization, and communication skills
  • Must be 18 years of age or older
  • No specific degree or minimum years of experience stated

Skills & Responsibilities

  • Food preparation and storage: Deliver delicious, timely food to customers while maintaining great standards and strict adherence to food safety and hygiene regulations.
  • High-pressure productivity: Maintain high productivity and quality service in a busy, fast-paced cafe kitchen environment.
  • Team motivation: Use excellent communication and planning skills to support, inspire, and develop a growing team.
  • Process improvement: Use initiative to identify new ways of working, limit food waste, and improve service for customers and colleagues.
  • Potential transition routes: People from kitchen assistant, line cook, or customer service roles may bring relevant food handling and organizational skills, alongside meeting the important stated requirements for this cafe position.

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Chef with hospitality experience to join one of our lively caf� kitchens. Your daily operations of the kitchen would include preparation, food storage, and to deliver delicious food that keeps our customers happy, satisfied, and coming back for more. It�s all part of making every day a little better for them, and us.

You�ll bring your experience of working in a similarly busy environment to Tesco, where you�ll become a caf� menu expert keen to share your knowledge with the team around you. From health and safety to limiting food waste, you�ll understand the importance of every detail and inspire your team to deliver outstanding food quality and speed of service - after all, no one tries harder for customers than us.

Tesco Caf�s are a place to get on. We believe in creating a great environment for colleagues to work � and providing opportunities for everyone to be at their best. With your previous experience, you�ll help to deliver skills as you build an inclusive place where people feel respected, safe and valued. In doing so, you�ll grow as a leader and develop your skills and experience as part of our friendly team.

Please note that you need to be 18 or over to apply for this role.

Whilst specific responsibilities will be dependent upon the changing needs of Tesco as a business, the following provides an overview of the role�s key responsibilities and measures:

  • storage and preparation in line with food safety and hygiene regulations.

  • deliver timely, tasty food to customers whilst maintaining great standards and food served to spec!

  • Identifying new and better ways of working to keep improving services for customers and colleagues.

  • health and safety and food safety requirements are met.

  • Understanding the key drivers of our service plan and delivering to the standard required.

  • A background in hospitality

  • Experience of remaining productive in a high-pressure environment.

  • A commitment to excellent customer service.

  • A desire to create an inclusive work environment where colleagues feel respected, safe and valued.

  • Good planning and organisation skills.

  • Confidence using your initiative to identify opportunities to improve our ways of working or adapt to different situations.

  • Excellent communication skills to motivate and support a growing team

With 329 caf�s across the country and counting, our teams work closely to make sure that the customer experience is to the best standard and service; no two days are ever the same! Tesco Caf�s are a great place to work, with a genuine family feel - truly a place to get on.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco Caf� where everyone is welcome and truly feels able to be themselves. In our caf�s, we not only celebrate diversity, but we strive to create a workforce that reflects our customers not only here in the UK, but worldwide. Our aim is to attract and welcome a diverse range of applicants from all walks of life, offering many varying working patterns across our business and we would love to hear from you.

We know life looks a little different for each of us. That�s why at Tesco, we always welcome chats about flexible working. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We�re proud to have been accredited as a Disability Confident Leader and we�re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

On occasions where we have high volumes of applicants, some roles may close earlier than the advertised end date in order for us to manage all of the applicants appropriately. We will only be able to offer individual feedback to those candidates who attend an interview.

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Tesco Retail

Cafe Chef

Coventry
On-site

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