Kitopi is hiring a

Sous Chef

Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Full-Time
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.

As a leading food-tech business, Kitopi’s growth has been largely fueled by its innovative and scalable software solutions. Kitopi’s kitchens are powered by its proprietary Smart Kitchen Operating System (SKOS) - an in-house suite of applications that optimizes cloud kitchen operations in real-time. As part of its growth roadmap, technological innovation, data science,  artificial intelligence, and robotics will take center stage as Kitopi continues to reinvent the food industry as we know it today.

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.

AWJ, a Kitopi company, is a fast-growing Food & Beverage Group of popular home-grown Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, and international dining concepts. Established in 2014, AWJ is on a mission to satisfy the world's appetite to create joy. Headquartered in Dubai, AWJ embarked on its culinary journey with five unique concept brands – all strategically located across popular tourist and dining destinations across Dubai. AWJ has since expanded its presence to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the USA through both owned and franchised locations. AWJ future plans include identifying and exploring key regional markets in Europe, North Africa, and the USA, bringing in cutting-edge technologies, experimenting with traditional and innovative flavors, and blending diverse culinary traditions to create unique and enticing dining experiences.

Leading a small army of kitchen porters and overseeing the day to day running of the kitchen, including cleaning the equipment, checking supplies and rotating food stock. Serve high quality of food as per company standard to the guest are on respecting of time limit. Responsible for cooking, plating, and garnishing of all products as per standard recipe.

What You'll Do?

  • Responsible for food quality, test, presentation, hygiene standard.
  • Responsible for food cost and food profitability.
  • Ensure that kitchen staff are properly trained and well communicated concerning all company S.O.P.
  • Cleanliness of the kitchen should be maintained as top priority. 
  • Supervises all dishes tastes, smells, and observes food to ensure conformance with recipes.
  • Obverse the kitchen helpers Commis to make sure that all employees follow safety and health standards. 
  • Kitchen Supervisor is obligated to organize and rotate all food in stock and taking inventory.
  • He checks the food stock for freshness and quality on a regular basis. 
  • Kitchen Supervisor is the one who makes a schedule for the routinely equipment maintenance, waste removal and cleaning services.
  • It is the duty of a Kitchen Supervisor to look into any customer complaints and be able to resolve such complaints on food service or quality.
  • He sets a meeting with the employees to ensure that such situations that were complained about will be avoided in the future.

What We're Looking For?

  • Minimum high school academic.
  • Experience minimum 3-year similar position
  • Good talent, good appearance, good presentation.
  • Decision Maker. 
  • Ability to be integrated in new work environment.
  • High interpersonal skills, and communication skills (in both English & Arabic)
  • Hard worker, teamwork player.
  • Highly Self-motivated with the ability to motivate others as well.
  • Leadership and multitasking.
  • Time management, Attention to detail
  • Ability to multitask

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