In-House Caterer

Reports to: Facilities Manager

Location: Glebe Farm, Down Street, Dummer, Basingstoke, RG25 2AD

Office Hours: Monday to Friday 07:30am to 15:30pm

The Business

Southern Communications Group (SCG) is a dynamic and fast paced telecommunications business with a reputation for excellent customer service and unrivalled career development.

Each customer is at the heart of our business where we strive to design, deliver and support the very best solution to underpin their business and daily operations supported by industry leading specialists.

The Team

An exciting opportunity to join our ambitious and friendly team based in Dummer, just outside Basingstoke.

Role Summary

We value our employees and as such we have an onsite canteen at our office in Dummer. This is a hands-on role to run the office canteen. Service starts in the morning with free croissants for our employees as they start work in the morning, with coffees and lunches served throughout the day to the mid- afternoon.

Traditionally our menus have been simple, but tasty, based on such staples as salads, sandwiches, freshly made soup and a weekly special. You will choose ingredients and design a menu to include good use of seasonal food items, creating delicious dishes that inspire our colleagues to come back again and again to see what’s new in the canteen.

The role includes all aspects of delivering a welcome, tasty and good-looking plate of food including preparation, cooking, reheating, assembling and serving. The taking & processing of food orders whilst maintaining a clean and safe canteen space, both front of house and behind the scenes, keeping the customer at the forefront of your day.

This will include, but is not limited to, responsibility for kitchen and storeroom hygiene and cleaning. You will be expected to enhance our food hygiene rating from 3 stars back to 5 stars and then maintain these standards daily.

Tasks

• Receive & Prepare customers’ orders according to their preferences.
• Cater for Boardroom lunches and meetings.
• Run efficient systems to enable pre ordering and on time delivery of pre ordered meals
• Ensure the kitchen meets all regulations including sanitary and food safety guidelines
• Being responsible for canteen & kitchen health and safety
• Being responsible for food hygiene practices, championing high standards
• Experiment to come up with new specialties that will draw staff into the canteen
• Determine how much food to order, maintain an appropriate and consistent supply at the canteen, including compliant stock control methods
  
  

Skills & Experience

• Friendly demeanour and an ability to learn people’s names to provide a personalized service
• Ability to work quickly under pressure
• High level of attention to detail
• Good level of numeracy
• Ability to work unsupervised and deliver high standards of customer service & consistent quality
• Positive and approachable manner
• Team player
  
  

Finding the right balance between your work and your lifestyle is really important, with this In-House Caterer role you will often find that your day typically starts at 7.30am and finishes at 3.30pm to enable you to maintain a healthy work-life balance.

We offer an opportunity for you to create a hub of excellence in Food, Service and Togetherness for our valued colleagues. A clean, professional and reliable service for your colleagues as well as a varied, tasty and healthy menu to be proud of.