Head of Food

🍽️ Head of Food – Hospitality📍 North London💸 £100k + Package👪 Great Supportive Culture🌱 Developing People Are you a senior culinary leader who has successfully led multiple high-volume kitchens and helped a hospitality business improve its food offer, operational performance and profitability? Have you got the experience to build standards, develop talented chefs and support a growing restaurant estate? If yes, please keep reading!This is a broad, strategic but hands-on leadership role, with responsibility for the culinary direction and Back of House performance across a growing restaurant business. Working closely with Operations, Procurement, Finance and the wider leadership team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the food strategy, improving consistency and building the operational platform required to support the group's ambitious growth plans.You will lead and develop Group and Regional Chefs, ensuring food quality, freshness, food safety, kitchen productivity and commercial performance are consistently delivered across the estate. There is a significant opportunity to develop menus, improve recipe standards, introduce better processes and ensure each brand retains its own identity while operating to clear and measurable standards.A key part of the role will be protecting the guest experience while improving food cost, labour productivity, stock management and waste. You will need to combine strong culinary credibility with commercial understanding, using data and site engagement to identify opportunities and deliver sustainable improvements.You will also play a major role in new openings, supporting kitchen design, equipment, menus, recruitment, training and operational readiness as the business continues to expand.Culture is important to the organisation, and they are looking for someone who brings energy, creativity, passion and a genuine commitment to developing people. You will need to be an engaging leader who can influence stakeholders, coach senior kitchen teams and create a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Head of Food, Culinary Director or Food Director who wants to make a real impact across a growing restaurant hospitality business.If you are interested in understanding more about this Head of Food opportunity, please apply for a confidential conversation.