Chef, Kitchen Lead
Great food. Daytime hours. No late-night finishes.
MINCKA is looking for an experienced and highly organised Chef / Kitchen Lead to take ownership of our kitchen and food preparation in Haywards Heath.
This isn’t a traditional restaurant chef role. We’re a busy daytime café looking for someone who loves working with food but also enjoys the operational side of running a great kitchen: preparing ahead, maintaining high standards and making sure everything is ready when service gets busy.
You’ll take responsibility for:
• Preparing and batch cooking ingredients
• Producing our toasties, sandos, grab-and-go food and wider café offering
• Planning and managing daily and weekly prep levels
• Keeping the kitchen organised and ready for service
• Maintaining excellent food hygiene, safety and allergen standards
• Ordering stock, managing rotation and reducing food waste
• Maintaining an exceptionally clean working environment
• Supporting the development of new dishes
• Improving and simplifying kitchen systems and processes
This is an opportunity to take real ownership of your area and help shape what MINCKA’s food operation becomes next.
The role is approximately 30–35 hours per week across five days, with the possibility of additional hours if preferred. Some weekend work will form part of the role, but as a daytime café, there are no late-night finishes.
Experience with food matters, but we’re equally interested in how you work.
You’ll be a strong fit if you:
• Have professional kitchen, chef or substantial food-preparation experience
• Are highly organised and take pride in running a clean kitchen
• Work quickly and efficiently without sacrificing standards
• Are dependable and take ownership without needing to be chased
• Can plan your own workload and work independently
• Understand food hygiene, allergens and safe food handling
• Enjoy improving systems and finding better ways of working
• Work well as part of a small, ambitious and friendly team
• Are available to work across five days, including some weekends
You don’t need a fine-dining background. We’re looking for someone who can consistently produce great food while running an organised, efficient and dependable kitchen.
• Daytime café hours with no late-night finishes
• Approximately 30–35 hours per week, with the potential for additional hours
• A degree of flexibility in how your working week is structured
• Free access to coaching and training at Madisons Fitness (worth £5k per year)
• Genuine ownership of the kitchen and food-preparation operation
• The opportunity to influence and develop MINCKA’s food offering
• Scope to improve systems and shape how the kitchen operates
• A supportive, ambitious independent business where your contribution will be visible and valued
• Workplace pension and statutory holiday entitlement
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