# Working as a Golf Club Chef with The Chef Tree

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Golf has been a popular sport for a large number of years but its popularity has recently increased, largely due to the pandemic when people felt that golf was a sport that could be enjoyed safely, with minimal contact with other players.

Golf membership has been rising recently with more and more people taking up the sport as a serious type of sport with numerous benefits.

Golf courses now offer much more than access to the sport and equipment. Some of the best courses in the country have amazing kitchens catering not just for members but also non-members who wish to take in the often stunning views that clubs offer. As more and more people attend these clubs the standard of food and beverages has also increased.

## Chef Jobs

- Head Chef
- Chef De Partie
- Cook

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## What skills do you need to work in a golf club kitchen?

You’ll need a wide range of skills to ensure you are able to meet the demands of the kitchen. It is essential that you have the skills to face whatever the kitchen throws at you.

The list below will hopefully give you some idea of the skills needed to work in a demanding kitchen environment.

- Passion: A great chef has to be passionate about food and cooking. They have to genuinely enjoy the whole process of procuring, preparing, cooking and serving food and have to be able to design menus too.

- Stamina: An essential quality of a true chef is stamina. The commercial kitchen is a hard place to work; long hours on foot, exposed to heat, grease, high pressure and odd working hours; a chef needs the stamina to remain focused and consistently produce top-quality food.

- Leadership skills: It is the chef who is responsible for the kitchen. They have to be able to give direction to their team and maintain an amicable atmosphere in their kitchen. They need to guide, coach and monitor their juniors so that the operations run smoothly.

- Creativity: It is taken for granted that a chef will be creative. It is this quality that actually brings in the customers. It is also what comes to aid when there may be some ingredient missing and a great-tasting dish needs to be produced.

- Flexibility: No job in the kitchen should be beneath a chef. It is only a flexible chef who can ensure that his kitchen is running smoothly, pitching in wherever necessary be it at the range or the wash basin.

- Organization: To run a well-oiled kitchen the chef has to be organized. Every aspect of the job has to be planned out be it the proper utilization of staff, the traffic flow of the kitchen especially during rush hours, the kitchen layout and the food preparation or its plating.

- Business sense: A chef has to have a keen sense of business to run a profitable organization. The kitchen has to not only produce tasty food, but it also has to be cost-effective and wastage should be minimal.

- Multitasking: The ability to multitask comes to great use in the life of a chef. They are overall in charge so from planning and designing menus to raw material procurement and inventory management to ensure that the right food goes to the right table, all the elements of a kitchen have to come together at the right time to result in seamless satisfactory service. It is the chef’s duty to keep tabs on all of it.

- Commitment to quality: Every chef has to be committed to quality using only the freshest and best quality ingredients and the best techniques to produce tasty food of the highest grade.

- Handle criticism: There is no guarantee that everybody will always love the food cooked by a chef. He will sometimes face criticism and he has to be able to handle it with equanimity, analyse the feedback and take appropriate action on it.

## What experience do you need to work in a golf club kitchen?

The level of experience a Chef needs depends on the position. Generally, the industry values candidates who have extensive on-the-job experience in a variety of kitchens and different types of restaurants. Some employers prefer candidates with two to three years of proven experience as a Head Chef, Sous Chef or experience in managing a culinary team. In addition, candidates may need to show financial knowledge and a proven ability to run a profitable kitchen.

A Chef’s duties depend on the size and style of the restaurant, but in general, important duties for the job and the responsibilities needed to excel include:

- Preparing the food for cooking

- Keeping up with industry trends and creating new recipes with the Sous Chef

- Reviewing the menu and doing inventory

- Following the budget set by the Restaurant Manager

- Ordering food for the kitchen

- Monitoring food production and food and staff costs

- Training staff

- Managing relationships with distributors and resolving any issues with vendors, promptly

- Ensuring standard portions and quality of dishes

- Maintaining a clean and safe kitchen and ensuring sanitation practices in the kitchen

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

## What does The Chef Tree Pay for a golf club Chef?

Our rates are dependent on your experience but a CDP can expect to earn £14 p.h, a sous chef, £16 p.h, a Head chef, £18 p.h and an Executive chef or weekend care home chef, £20 p.h.

## 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 Golf Club Chef?

Cardiff
Weston-Super-Mare
Gloucester
Bradford-on-Avon
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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