Apprentice Cook - KFC Restaurants - Cobham Services
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Summary
Our Product
As a Cook in our Back of House Kitchen you will freshly prepare our famous chicken products. You will be responsible for ensuring our product is Gold Standard and meets our customers expectations… Finger Lickin’ Good!
Teamwork
We team together everyday to allow us to deliver the experience our customers deserve… the very best! Day to day you will support those you work with by making our amazing chicken and bringing our People Promise to life by Being Your Best Self, Making A Difference and Having Fun!
Cleanliness
You will be responsible for ensuring our food preparation and holding areas are kept clean and tidy at all times. It is also really important that we ensure our fryers, fridges and freezers are maintained and cleaned, to allow us to deliver our fantastic products.
Health & Safety and Food Safety
It important to us that our restaurants are a safe environment for our team and customers, therefore we expect our teams to adhere to all H&S and FS guidelines, maintaining a safe working environment at all times.
Our Systems
We have many systems in our restaurant that support us in running our business efficiently. At times you will be responsible for reading and interpreting information. As a Back of House TM, you will be required to read our cooking systems which tell us the amount of product we should prepare to meet our customers demands.
Benefits
• Free Staff Meals
• 25% Staff Discount
• Potential bonus earnings
• Flexible Shifts
• Career Progression
Requirements and Prospectus
Desired skills
Bright, spirited and energetic. Passionate about people and love being part of a team.
Personal qualities
Are you a bright, spirited person who loves to get stuck in, ask questions and support the people around you? Better still, are you energetic, do you like to smile and have fun together, even when things get tough? Loads of different people make KFC what it is today (the most popular chicken restaurant in Britain!) and they all play a huge part in our success from the Managing Director to our cooks. So how KFC are you?
We are Customer Maniacs. That means our Customers are Number 1. Whilst restaurant experience is fantastic, we are always on the lookout for individuals with a passion for people and who love being part of a team. Recognition is not just about rewards and incentives, it is about saying thank you to people for going above and beyond and for always striving to achieve their best.
Qualifications required
No qualifications required.
Future prospects
Career development opportunities include progressing onto your Level 3 Standard in Supervision and Level 6 Chartered Manager Degree if appropriate.
Training to be delivered
Hospitality Team Member Apprenticeship - Food and Beverage Service
Functional Skills in Maths
Functional Skills in English
Functional Skills in ICT
About the employer
Plenty of folks ask me how come the whole world loves my chicken. I’m guessing they can’t have tried it, since they would already know the answer. It’s my delicious Original Recipe of eleven herbs and spices.
Now, I understand this isn’t enough information for the more detail-minded among you. So I’d be delighted to share with you the whole, incredible story of Kentucky Fried Chicken, if you’d care to hear it.
Some might say I was a slow starter.
I first cooked chicken at the age of six years old, standing barefoot in my Mamma’s kitchen.
Back then, I was plain Harland Sanders and my Daddy had just passed away. Everyone needed to lend a hand to get by.
These were tough times, but they taught me one important lesson for life (besides how to cook chicken!). Never ever give up.
I tried everything to make my way. I joined the army. I was a fireman on the railroad. I piloted a ferry boat on the Ohio River. I even tried my hand at lawyering for a while. But nothing seemed to stick.
So it happened that I went back to what I knew best. Cooking chicken. In 1930, I set up in a little stopover on the highway, making meals for hungry drivers. It was the height of the Great Depression, but we were always busy.
Before too long, I was close to perfecting my world famous Original Recipe, and, boy, did they love that chicken!
I’d watch ’em eat every last morsel and then lick their fingers clean for good measure. That’s when ‘Finger Lickin’ Good’ was born. I knew there and then I had created something truly special. In 1935, the State of Kentucky saw fit to make me a Colonel, the highest honour it can bestow on a person for service to the community. I was recommissioned in 1950, and it was about this time I began to wear my white suit and black string tie, so’s folks knew who I was by sight. I’ve worn it ever since.
Then in 1952, I struck upon the idea of setting up a little franchise to share my chicken with hungry people outside of Kentucky. The first Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise opened that same year in Salt Lake City, Utah.
It was like lighting the fuse on a firework. Before long, KFC restaurants were popping up all over the United States.
My chicken got so popular, I decided to introduce a means for a whole hungry family to share a KFC together at the same time. We called it the ‘Bucket’ and it’s been shared around the world ever since.
It wasn’t too long after that we embarked on our biggest adventure yet, taking Kentucky Fried Chicken across the Atlantic to the United Kingdom. We set up our first restaurant outside of North America in sunny Preston, way, way back in 1965 (before all those other guys arrived!).
We’ve never looked back. Today, you can enjoy KFC in 118 different countries worldwide, from Sweden to South Africa and China to Brazil.
And the Colonel will always be there to greet you.
Address
Unit 6 Extra Motorway ServicesM25 Junction 9-10
Cobham
KT11 3JS
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