Hotel kitchen department

Are you up-to-date with the latest food trends and always striving for the highest quality? As a chef, it is essential to stay calm in stressful situations. High levels of creativity are expected from you as a chef. You distinguish yourself as a passionate culinary talent with a strong sense of responsibility and excellent organizational skills. Together with the kitchen team, you ensure that everything in the kitchen runs smoothly. Some hotels have a kitchen that only serves breakfast, while others are known for their high-quality and sometimes even Michelin-starred dishes, such as at Okura and Sofitel Legend The Grand.

Kitchen functions

In the kitchen, you often work during irregular hours, including evenings and weekends. There are also more regular kitchen roles, especially during the day, such as those of a breakfast chef and lunch chef. If you don't have much experience yet, you can start as a kitchen assistant or apprentice chef. In these roles, you support your colleagues in preparing and executing production tasks. Good collaboration with colleagues from the restaurant is essential, including the assistant restaurant manager, breakfast staff, chef de rang, hostess, restaurant manager, restaurant supervisor, and waiters.

Main tasks of the kitchen department:

Preparing and passing dishes.
Closely collaborating with the stewarding and restaurant departments.
Performing preparatory tasks.
Creating products based on recipes.
Monitoring the quality of dishes by checking the freshness of ingredients.
Procuring products and maintaining stock levels.
Performing cleaning and tidying tasks.

What could be more satisfying than a guest going home fulfilled and very satisfied thanks to your delicious and beautifully presented dishes? For someone with a passion for food and cooking, this provides the greatest reward for the profession.