# Working as a Pizza Chef for The Chef Tree

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## What is a Pizza Chef?

Pizza chefs are cooks who specialize in making pizzas based on the restaurant’s menu or from customized orders. They create a variety of pizzas and include choices such as red sauce or white sauce, as well as thin or thick-crust pizzas. Depending on the type of restaurant, A pizza chef may also be responsible for cooking other dishes on the menu.

## Types of venue

- Gastro Pub
- Pub
- Bar
- Restaurant

## What is the role of the Pizza Chef?

In the pizza chef role, you will prepare pizza ingredients by chopping vegetables and cutting meat. You will also make the pizza dough fresh daily, usually from scratch. You must stay up-to-date on food safety and food quality best practices. Success in this role will be demonstrated by efficiently baking high-quality pizzas that meet the restaurant’s standards, leading to customer satisfaction.

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## What skills does a Pizza Chef need?

### Ability to manage others and work on a team

A pizza chef manages multiple, simultaneous processes —from dough and ingredient prep to cooking pizza in a pizza or wood-fired oven. A good pizza chef makes excellent pizzas and knows how to teach others to toss dough, assemble pizzas, cook them properly and ensure they are served to the customer piping hot.

Some pizza chefs may be responsible for administrative tasks related to kitchen management. They may, for example, be responsible for ensuring that ingredients are stocked before service and communicating with procurement or the head chef to order supplies. Pizza chefs may be responsible for ensuring that food costs yield profitability while providing quality ingredients. They may also be responsible for maintaining industrial kitchen equipment and ensuring food preparation areas meet sanitation standards and local health laws.

Some head pizza chefs may be responsible for scheduling cooks, prep workers and other kitchen staff.

### Knowing what makes a good pizza

Depending on the restaurant, a pizza chef may require formal culinary training with a focus on Italian cuisine. Some pizza chefs create original pizza recipes, which can be extremely popular. At a minimum, a pizza chef should be able to read and follow basic cooking directions.

Pizza chefs should know how to make and toss dough, how to prepare good pizza sauces, how to roll out crusts and add ingredients according to recipes. The resulting product should be consistent and delicious.

### Commitment to customer service

Good pizza chefs provide excellent service to customers. Depending on the type of restaurant, a pizza chef may be in charge of phone orders and take-out deliveries. They should be able to communicate well and resolve customer complaints with diplomacy.

### Willingness to work a flexible schedule

Restaurants are often busiest during nights, weekends and holidays. Pizza chefs should be able to work those shifts.

### Pizza chef duties and skills

Here are some common duties of a pizza chef:

- Ensures cooking stations are sanitized and prepped with necessary tools

- Prepares and stores pizza dough

- Prepares pizza sauces

- Orders supplies, maintains inventory, creates budgets to ensure profitable food cost

- Trains other cooks in the preparation process so all meals are uniform

- Checks quality of pizzas before they’re served to guests

- Performs regular maintenance on kitchen equipment

- Collaborates with staff on menu items

- Resolves customer complaints with diplomacy

- Makes sure the kitchen is clean and sanitized

### These are ideal skills for a good pizza chef:

- Time management

- Teamwork

- Communication

- Organization

- Customer service

- Ability to work under pressure

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.

James Avery

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.

Neil Roach

## How much does a Pizza Chef get paid?

The average salary for a Pizza Chef in the UK, according to checkasalary.co.uk, is £24,013pa, or an hourly rate of around £11.50 per hour.

## 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 Pizza Chef?

Weston-Super-Mare
Bristol
Taunton
Chepstow

What our Chefs say!

I like working for The Chef Tree because of the freedom and the flexibility

Eva Kam

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.

James Avery

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

Neil Roach

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