Sous Chef

Kitopi is the world's leading tech-powered multi-brand restaurant. With a mission to satisfy the world's appetite, Kitopi operates a portfolio of both invested and franchised F&B brands, serving as enablers in the food market by helping brands to grow and scale, both in the delivery and dine-in space.

Launched in Dubai, UAE in January 2018, Kitopi has grown to become one of the greatest success stories in the cloud kitchen and food tech space. In July 2021, Kitopi announced its $415 million Series C funding round, led by the world's largest technology-focused investment fund, Softbank Group Corp's Vision Fund 2. This investment catapulted Kitopi to the prestigious Unicorn status, making it the fastest Unicorn to have emerged from the MENA region.

As a leading food-tech business, Kitopi's growth has been largely fueled by its innovative and scalable software solutions. Kitopi's kitchens are powered by its proprietary Smart Kitchen Operating System (SKOS) - an in-house suite of applications that optimizes cloud kitchen operations in real-time. As part of its growth roadmap, technological innovation, data science, artificial intelligence, and robotics will take center stage as Kitopi continues to reinvent the food industry as we know it today.

With over 6,000 employees, Kitopi currently operates 200+ locations across the UAE, KSA, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar, and runs its engineering hub in Krakow, Poland, its robotics hub in Denmark, and its global customer experience center in Dubai, UAE.

As a Sous Chef, you will be responsible for managing your section and ensuring the standards, food consistency, recipes, and safety are in accordance with the company policies and requirements in our central kitchen. You will also be responsible for additional support in purchasing, stock rotation, storage, receiving, and labelling.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage stock levels, ordering, and portion controls
• Assist with overseeing the kitchen's daily operations, ensuring food quality, consistency, and presentation meet high standards.
• Lead and direct kitchen staff, including line cooks, prep cooks, and dishwashers, ensuring tasks are performed efficiently and properly.
• Prepare and cook food items according to the menu and recipes. Ensure all food items meet the restaurant's standards for taste, texture, and presentation.
• Manage food stock, ordering supplies, and ensuring items are properly stored to minimize waste and maintain quality.
• Maintain consistency in food preparation and presentation, ensuring all dishes meet restaurant standards.
• Ensure the kitchen complies with health and safety regulations, including cleanliness, proper storage of food, and safe cooking practices.

Requirements

• Demonstrate a strong understanding of one or more of the following cuisines - mainly Italian and Indian, knowledge in Lebanese, Mexican, Bakery, Oriental, International, Butchery, Both hot and cold section would be ideal as well.
• Should have excellent communication skills, management skills as well as good planning, organizing and analytical skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Solid leadership and communication skills
• At least 2 years experience in the culinary, food and beverage, or related professional area.

Recruitment Process and Timeline

First, you apply, and our talent attraction team will review your profile. If your profile matches our requirements, you will receive a link to schedule a meeting with a recruiter at your convenience. This meeting is an opportunity for you to share more about yourself and for us to get to know you better.

If you are shortlisted, you will meet with our hiring managers. Depending on the role and its requirements, you may need to attend 2-3 interview rounds. These rounds could include a case study, role-play, trial assignment, or live coding session, which will be communicated to you in the initial conversation.

Upon successful completion of the interview rounds, your recruiter will contact you to discuss the offer. We aim to complete this process within 2-3 weeks.

So, what does it really mean to work at Kitopi

We are constantly striving to make Kitopi the best place to work, by empowering you to be the best version of yourself every day. Our company values act as our guiding principles to help ensure that everyone feels safe, included, and like they truly belong.

Kitopi is an equal-opportunity employer. While we currently operate in 6 countries, we are over 70 different nationalities of talented Kitopians. Whether you are a seasoned professional, a recent graduate, or someone looking to return to the workforce after a break, we encourage you to apply. We celebrate rich diverse backgrounds, lifestyles, and cultures and have a 0-tolerance policy towards racism, bigotry, and hate. Please apply if you see a position that makes your heart skip a beat and help us build a company that we are all proud to work for.

Customer-obsessed and tech-enabled, at Kitopi, we are a team of passionate humans who are on a mission together to satisfy the world's appetite