Kitchen Manager

  • KAT Recruitment
  • Royston, Hertfordshire
  • May 06, 2026
Full time Hospitality & Tourism

Job Description

If you are looking for day time working hours, this Kitchen Manager role will be the ideal role for you. Trading hours operate between 9am-6pm Monday-Sunday, my clients restaurant in their retail environment is perfect for somebody who wants a better work / life balance.

My clients Kitchen Managers play an essential role in delivering an exceptional customer experience across our restaurants - delivering tasty food, ensuring food hygiene, maintaining high operational standards and smashing commercial targets.

This role would suit an experienced Team Leader looking for their next step up or a Kitchen Manager who is looking for a better work / life balance.

Responsibilities:

  • Leading the kitchen team, ensuring strong levels of service that are efficient, withing budget and compliant
  • Ensuring that our customers are presented with their meals to a high standard and on time
  • Maintaining a fully compliant kitchen with all statutory requirements of health & safety and food hygiene
  • Sparking your team's passion for delivering the best food service and customer experience
  • Creating a fun and productive environment for everyone to enjoy the day-to-day operations whilst thinking ahead to ensure all your team have a development journey.

Who we are looking for:

  • Experience in food service, alongside management experience
  • Commercial awareness and understanding of budgets, profitability from driving sales and improved ways of working
  • Adaptability to identify training needs. You'll be effectively coaching and training all levels ensuring our teams are delivering an excellent customer experience and safe store environment
  • You'll act quickly and enthusiastically to changing priorities, workload and new regulations or requirements
  • Positivity managing change. You'll lead the team through each season with care and motivation to deliver the best
  • Can demonstrate our values at all times - we're on team, getting better everyday. We bring a smile. We live and breathe gardens. We make it work for our customers.