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Head Chef – Dublin City Centre

Lead the kitchen. Inspire the people. Continue the journey. Shape what comes next.

Excel Recruitment is seeking an exceptional Head Chef for a successful and ambitious restaurant operation in Dublin City Centre.

This is an opportunity to join a business that has already built a strong reputation and is now looking for the right culinary leader to continue that journey of success and help define its next chapter.

We are looking for more than an accomplished chef. We want a visionary leader, someone who can understand where the business is today, recognise what is coming next and develop the people, food offering and kitchen operation to ensure the restaurant continues to evolve.

Salary: €70k – €80K DOE

The successful Head Chef will have direct access to the owners and a seat at the senior leadership table, providing genuine influence over the future direction of the business. A strong background in Asian and Thai cuisine is highly desirable, combined with creativity, commercial awareness and exceptional people-management skills.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and deliver a clear culinary vision for the future
• Continue the restaurant’s journey of growth and success
• Lead, inspire and develop a high-performing kitchen team
• Bring strong knowledge of Asian and Thai cuisine, flavours and techniques
• Work directly with the owners and senior leadership team
• Identify emerging food trends and opportunities to keep the restaurant relevant and exciting
• Develop menus while protecting quality, consistency and commercial performance
• Build and implement effective SOPs and kitchen standards
• Develop the next generation of Sous Chefs and kitchen leaders
• Review food cost, labour, purchasing, waste and kitchen profitability
• Identify sustainable cost savings and operational efficiencies without compromising quality
• Strengthen supplier relationships and purchasing strategies
• Create a kitchen culture centred around standards, accountability, teamwork and development
• Ensure exceptional HACCP, food safety and hygiene standards
• Work closely with front-of-house leadership to continually improve the overall guest experience

Requirements:

• You could already be an established Head Chef or Executive Chef, or an ready for greater ownership and influence
• You will be an outstanding people manager and team builder who understands that long-term success comes from developing the people around you
• Commercially, you will understand the numbers behind a successful kitchen – food cost, labour, waste, purchasing, margins and productivity – while never losing sight of creativity or the customer experience
• Above all, you will have vision
• You will have the ability to look beyond today’s service and understand what is coming next – for the restaurant, its customers, its people and the wider food industry

If you’re a chef who doesn’t just think about tonight’s service, but about where the restaurant could be tomorrow, we want to hear from you.

Apply to Alan today to discuss in more detail.

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