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Job description

Sous/Senior Pizza Chef — Help Us Build

Something New

£18–£20 per hour | Full-time | London Bridge, SE1

What if your next kitchen wasn't already established? Five Feet is a new neighbourhood pizzeria opening in the heart of London Bridge, and we're

looking for a committed, curious and ambitious Sous Chef to join us from the beginning. Our focus is simple: exceptional ingredients and seriously good pizza.

We make light, crispy pan pizza using freshly milled heritage grains, with our own mill and grains sourced from a farm close to London. We work with independent British producers, including local farmers and dairy producers, because we care about where our ingredients come from as much as what we do with them.

We're looking for someone who is excited by food and wants to grow with a new restaurant. You'll work closely with our Head Chef, bringing your experience and ideas into a kitchen that is still being built and shaped.

The menu is already taking shape, but we're not looking for someone who simply wants to follow a recipe book. If you have an idea for a new pizza, a better way of doing something, or a combination of ingredients that you think could work, we want to hear it. You'll have room to contribute and create as the restaurant develops.

You'll be involved in:

●  Helping establish and run the kitchen from opening

●  Maintaining high standards of food quality and consistency

●  Working with the Head Chef on preparation, service and kitchen organisation

●  Supporting and developing the kitchen team

●  Managing stock and food preparation

●  Working with dough, fermentation and freshly milled flour

●  Contributing ideas to the menu and developing new dishes

●  Maintaining excellent food safety and hygiene standards

●  Helping build the systems and standards of a new kitchen

We're looking for someone who is:

●  Experienced as a Sous Chef, or an experienced Senior Pizza Chef ready to take the next step

●  Hard-working, organised and proactive

●  Genuinely interested in food and ingredients

●  Excited by the opportunity to join a restaurant before opening

●  Keen to learn and develop their career in food

●  Comfortable taking responsibility and helping lead a team

●  Curious enough to ask questions and confident enough to suggest ideas

Why Five Feet?

You'll have the opportunity to build something rather than simply inherit it.

You'll work alongside an experienced chef with a background in bakeries and restaurants, and learn more about pizza, milling, fermentation and the ingredients behind the food. We're building a restaurant with room to grow, and we'd like the people who join us at the beginning to grow with it.

If you're ambitious about food, excited by a new project and want to be part of building a kitchen from the ground up, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply with your CV and a little about yourself and your experience.

Application information

Email: jack@fivefeet.co.uk

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