Chef
Role Overview
Seeking a skilled, organized, and reliable Chef for a busy, delivery-focused kitchen.
The role prepares a variety of dishes while maintaining consistent standards and efficient service.
Key Skills for This Role
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Business overview
Sweetgreen is an Abu Dhabi-based food business offering healthy meal plans and virtual restaurant brands.
Menus include bowls, salads, wraps, sandwiches, pasta, Indian cuisine, and other dishes.
Role overview
Seeking a skilled, organized, and reliable Chef for a busy, delivery-focused kitchen.
The role prepares a variety of dishes while maintaining consistent standards and efficient service.
Key responsibilities
- Prepare and cook dishes to approved recipes, portion sizes, and presentation standards; manage daily mise en place.
- Prepare delivery, meal-plan, and catering orders, including calorie-conscious meals and vegan, keto, and gluten-free options.
- Handle allergies carefully and prevent cross-contamination; maintain consistent food quality, taste, and presentation across brands.
- Monitor freshness, storage temperatures, labelling, and stock rotation; control portions, minimize waste, and report stock needs.
- Maintain a clean workstation and follow food safety and hygiene procedures.
- Coordinate with kitchen and packing teams to ensure accurate, timely orders.
- Support menu development, recipe testing, and new dishes.
Requirements
- Previous Chef or Cook experience in a restaurant, catering operation, or cloud kitchen.
- Strong cooking skills and ability to follow standardized recipes accurately.
- Experience preparing international cuisine; healthy meal preparation is an advantage.
- Understanding of food safety, hygiene, storage, and allergen handling.
- Ability to manage multiple orders and maintain quality under pressure; dependable and cooperative across kitchen sections.
- Previous UAE kitchen experience is preferred.
- Culinary qualifications or food safety certification are advantageous.
Employment
Job type: full-time, permanent.
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