Chef de Cuisine at Anise Restaurant - InterContinental Dubai Festival City

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About us

As the world's largest family of luxury hotels, we all take great pride in being genuine ambassadors of the InterContinental® brand.

Shaped by decades of international know-how and local insights, our passion for luxury travel spans cultures and customs. Inspiring us to create warm and sophisticated experiences for those seeking a richer perspective on the world. Each of our hotels cultivates a distinctive style and ambience where we embrace every opportunity to give our guests a personal and enriching experience.

If you'd like to embrace a wider world of experiences and opportunities, we'd like to welcome you to the world's most international luxury hotel brand.

The InterContinental Hotels Group properties in Dubai Festival City consist of four hotel brands. These include the luxury brand InterContinental, the superior upscale Crowne Plaza, the lavish long-stay InterContinental Residence Suites and the vibrant mid-scale Holiday Inn. In addition to over 1000+ bedrooms, the four properties boast a selection of high quality restaurants and bars, an impressive 3,800 square meter Event Centre across two levels, the 5,000 square meters Festival Arena by InterContinental, the luxurious Spa InterContinental, state-of-the-art gymnasium and swimming pool facilities. We are looking for people who are friendly, welcoming and full of life to people to join over 900 colleagues who are always finding ways to make every guests experience an enjoyable one. We value the passion and enthusiasm of our colleagues, and encourage you to share your passion when you work with us.

Your day to day

To manage the Restaurant operations achieving business objectives through customer focused service delivery. Promotes the desired work culture around the five core values of Trust, Integrity, Respect, One Team and Service of the InterContinental Hotels Group® and the brand ethos.                

·  Developing all menus including new and innovative dishes over three meal periods.
·  Preparing and serving a range of cuisine dishes which exceed guest expectations.
·  Interacting with guests.
·  Lead, train and develop junior members of the Kitchen Brigade.
·  Working closely with Restaurant Manager to meet our winning ways metrics.
·  Liaising with Pastry, Bakery and Garde Manger kitchens to design contemporary multicultural menus.
·  Monitoring of company and Municipality hygiene standards
·  Monitoring the buffet quality and presentation during service.
·  Maintain and monitoring the budgeted food cost and taking corrective action whenever it is needed.
What we need from you

Ideally, you'll have some or all of the following competencies and experience we're looking for:

·  Minimum of 2 years in the same position
·  Strong technical skill set and understanding of multicultural cuisine
·  Proven history on working in a multinational environment
·  Hold an internationally approved food safety certificate, ideally HACCP
·  Diplomatic team player able to foster relationships with members, colleagues and guests
·  General knowledge of costing which relate to food cost control
·  Self-motivated innovative with a high drive for results
·  Technically literacy including MS word, excel and presentation
What we offer

We’ll reward all your hard work with competitive salary and benefits.

Join us and you’ll become part of the global IHG family – and like all families, all our individual team members share some winning characteristics. As a team, we work better together – we trust and support each other, we do the right thing and we welcome different perspectives. You need to show us you care: that you notice the little things that make a difference to guests as well as always looking for ways to improve - visit www.careers.ihg.com to find out more about us.

So go on - show us how your passion and personality are the perfect fit to deliver memorable experiences to our guests.