Working as a Chef de Partie for the Chef Tree
What is a Chef De Partie?
If you’re looking to get some solid experience in a professional kitchen, the position of a Chef de Partie is a good position to seek. It will allow you to gain some experience as a trainee chef, build up your own skills and be part of the leadership team. You need to learn the responsibilities and skills required to become an excellent Chef de Partie.
A Chef de Partie is a trained chef who runs a specific part of the kitchen where they cook, known as a station. They are also known as a line cook. This station could be pastry, butchery, fish, sauces, vegetables and so on. A Chef De Partie oversees everything that occurs in their section of the kitchen from preparation for cooking to the presentation of food. Their kitchen sections can handle a range of different foods including meat and fish, vegetables, sauces and pastries. In busier kitchens, they support the head and sous chefs to ensure consistently high-quality food is produced, deal with purchase orders and verify all goods received.
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What is the role of a Chef De Partie?
The following are some main duties and key responsibilities that usually feature in a Chef de Parties’ job description:
Handling food preparations
The Chef de Partie handles day-to-day food preparation and duties assigned by senior chefs to meet the restaurant’s standards and quality. They work together with the Sous chef to streamline daily kitchen operations to make sure the kitchen is working as effectively as it can.
Ensure the quality of the food served
A Chef De Partie will forecast the day-to-day production needs of the restaurant and ensure the quality of raw and cooked food meets restaurant standards. This means ensuring that the ingredients and presented food are always of the highest quality and the service offered guarantees customer satisfaction.
Enforcing the policies and regulations
The Chef de Partie must understand the standard policies and procedures regarding receiving, preparation, storage, food hygiene and the menu items fully, including the recipes, production and presentation methods. This helps to ensure great food handling and preservation with storage temperature and all other essential aspects being observed.
Operating kitchen equipment
A Chef de Partie will maintain and operate essential kitchen equipment and report malfunctions and damages to ensure the kitchen continues running smoothly.
Observing kitchen hygiene
The Chef de Partie is responsible for safety, hygiene and correct use of department utensils and equipment and motivates junior chefs to work under deadlines, whilst ensuring the removal of expired foods from storage and maintenance of proper preservation and waste disposal standards.
What skills does a Chef De Partie need?
Chefs de partie work in a high-pressured, highly creative environment, so need to have the following skills and capabilities:
Being able to work with little supervision and with a full grasp of what’s required throughout the shift
Managing multiple orders coming in to the section and delivering them within appropriate timeframes
Ensuring all plates of food are delivered to the head chef’s standards
Working in a high-pressured environment
Developing new ideas for recipes and dishes for the section, and pitching them to the head chef
Working closely with chefs de partie in other areas of the kitchen, and with more senior team members
And the more industry specific “hard skills” include:
Chopping, food preparation, frying, sauce creation and understanding of flavours
A basic understanding of all produce including meat, fish, vegetables etc. and their seasonality
Knowing how a kitchen needs to operate in order to run effectively and safely
Knowledge of health and safety regulations, and how they need to be applied within a kitchen environment
You get to go to different venues, you’re not stuck in the same job endlessly, not boring. You don’t have to go back when you don’t like somewhere and there is a variety of jobs.
Working for The Chef Tree is completely different from being a full-time chef. You choose the hours you want to do, fill in your portal, and everything is arranged around that.
How much does a Chef De Partie get paid?
According to the hospitality industry ‘bible’ The Caterer, the average salary for a Chef De Partie role in the UK is £23,000 p.a.
What are the benefits of working for TCT?
When you join The Chef Tree you will be entitled to the following amazing benefits;
Competitive rates of pay. Our current rate for a cook is £16ph.
Our Monthly Bonus Scheme - Complete 166 hours per month (just under 38.5 hours per week) and you will receive £100 bonus. This will be paid monthly.
Our Refer a Chef scheme – If you refer a chef to us you will receive £150 when the chef completes 5 shifts. The chef you refer will receive £75 on completion of 5 shifts.
Access to our online benefit partners, Pirkx - a benefit scheme for courses, health, wellbeing, shopping and more! For more information visit www.pirkx.com
Where can you work as a Chef de Partie?
Call us: 071 8604 611
What our Chefs say!
I like working for The Chef Tree because of the freedom and the flexibility
You get to go to different venues, you’re not stuck in the same job endlessly, not boring. You don’t have to go back when you don’t like somewhere and there is a variety of jobs.
Working for The Chef Tree is completely different from being a full-time chef
You choose the hours you want to do, fill in your portal, and everything is
arranged around that
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