Description
Kitopi is the world’s leading tech-powered multi-brand restaurant. With a mission to satisfy the world’s appetite, Kitopi operates a portfolio of both invested and franchised F&B brands, serving as enablers in the food market by helping brands to grow and scale, both in the delivery and dine-in space.
Launched in Dubai, UAE in January 2018, Kitopi has grown to become one of the greatest success stories in the cloud kitchen and food tech space. In July 2021, Kitopi announced its $415 million Series C funding round, led by the world’s largest technology-focused investment fund, Softbank Group Corp’s Vision Fund 2. This investment catapulted Kitopi to the prestigious Unicorn status, making it the fastest Unicorn to have emerged from the MENA region.
With over 4,000 employees, Kitopi currently operates 200+ locations across the UAE, KSA, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar, and runs its engineering hub in Krakow, Poland, its robotics hub in Denmark, and its global customer experience center in Dubai, UAE.
To meet Kitopi’s Kitchen goals, the Kitchen Manager is responsible for running a profitable kitchen and for making sure the kitchen meets our standards of quality, speed and accuracy. The Kitchen Manager works with his team to set the kitchen goals and create the plan to achieve these goals, following up on their progress, and providing coaching and direction to improve their departments to improve the kitchen overall.
What You'll Do:
- Along with our Operations Manager, sets and oversees the achievement of business objectives.
- Ensures excellent kitchen operations in quality, speed and accuracy, to meet and exceed customer expectations.
- Achieves sales and profit targets for the kitchen.
- Ensures that all sanitation, safety and security policies are observed and enforced.
- Manages productivity and staff cost.
- Enforces strict compliance in line with the local municipality codes in the work place.
- Supports new initiatives or expansion plans.
- Acts as coach, accountable for recruitment, training, retention and engagement of the team.
- Oversees the growth and development of employees.
- Maintains effective working relationship between managers and team members.
Who Are We Looking For?:
- 7+ years of relevant experience in operations and culinary management.
- Excellent knowledge of Food Legislation, Relevant Codes of Practice & Quality Standards and Health & Safety Legislation.
- Restaurant and Kitchen Management experience.
- Strong background in a fast food and delivery environment.
- Exceptional communication and organizational skills - able to speak and listen effectively; great written, verbal, and presentation skills.
Recruitment Process and Timeline
Benefits
- Extensive learning opportunities - we offer many hard and soft skills training to help you improve and challenge yourself
- You'll be involved in customized workshops run by Kitopi Academy
- You’ll have a chance to work in an international, diverse, and inclusive environment
- You’ll be part of one of the most caring communities out there.
- Finding a chance to become a shareowner with our ESOP plan (T&C Applies)
- Free and unlimited access to a nutritionist because we care about you
- No Dress Code! (T&C Applies)
- Extended maternity and parental leave
- The infamous team activities and social events are bursting with fun
- Inclusive Private Health Insurance
- Up to 50% discount from Kitopi brands
- Annual leave as per the company policy
So, what does it really mean to work at Kitopi?
We are constantly striving to make Kitopi the best place to work in the world, by empowering you to be the best version of yourself every day. Our company values act as our guiding principles to help ensure that everyone feels safe, included, and like they truly belong.
Along with offices in all the markets we operate in, we also believe in a “work from anywhere” policy - you get to choose the environment you operate in because we believe this will help you deliver work you’re proud of.
Tech-enabled and customer-obsessed, at Kitopi, we are a team of passionate humans who are on a mission together to satisfy the world’s appetite.
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