What is required?
- Relevant experience or interest in cooking is required
- You have a passion for good food and are a hard worker
- Following the imposed recipes/instructions (no own creation possible)
- Positive attitude and able to work well together
- Good command of the Dutch and/or French language, depending on the region (level C1-C2)
- Prepared to work different (weekend) shifts
What will you get?
- Salary according to horeca barema
- 20 to 35 hour workweek
- 20 vacation days per year
- Eco vouchers and year-end bonus
What will you do?
- 60% Preparing dishes
- 30% Washing up and cleaning
- 10% Placing orders
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As a Kitchen Assistant at Le Pain Quotidien, it is your responsibility that guests are served high quality food. You prepare tartines, salads, breakfast dishes, sandwiches and quiches and make sure that these dishes meet the agreed guidelines.
At the beginning of your shift, you'll be doing preparatory work, such as cutting vegetables and making sandwiches. Then - as soon as the orders come in - you only have to clean up the plates before you give them to the waiters. In between, you are responsible for the dishes, which are delivered from the work floor in sorted bins. You rotate washing up and preparing food with colleagues, so that your work is varied. You also take care of polishing cutlery. At the end of the day, you clean the kitchen, but during the day you also make sure your workplace stays tidy. Twice a week, you order products and ingredients, so there is always enough in stock.
In this job, you have varied working hours and you will be scheduled between 07.00 and 19.00 hours. When you start at 07.00 o'clock you are responsible for starting up the kitchen and when you have a closing shift you make sure, together with your colleagues, that everything is left clean and tidy for the colleagues the next day.
If you are interested in cooking and food, you enjoy working hard with a team, and you don't mind being on your feet for a long time, then this is a job for you.
Working week
On an enjoyable day, there is a strong team in the kitchen and you work well together to make the guests happy.
On a less enjoyable working day, there are not enough people assigned, so you have to work extra hard to prepare dishes on time.
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- Opening the kitchen and baking bread
- Preparing dishes
- Lunch
- Washing up
- Consultation with colleague
- Preparing dishes
- Preparing Dishes
- Polishing cutlery
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- Preparing dishes
- Preparing dishes
- Opening the kitchen and baking bread
- Lunch
- Placing an order
- Washing up
- Polishing cutlery
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- Preparing dishes
- Lunch
- Cleaning
- Washing up
- Polishing cutlery
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- Final cleaning
- Preparing lunch dishes
- Lunch
- Washing dishes and supporting colleagues
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- Preparing dishes
- Preparing lunch dishes
- Lunch
- Cleaning
- Preparing dishes
- Washing up
Firsthand experience
Growth
You will experience blended learning. Your job Buddy will provide guidance with on-the-job learning complemented by online courses. You will have regular catch-ups with your Manager and engaging development workshops in our Farming Academy.
Working at Le Pain Quotidien Belgique
Le Pain Quotidien (French for 'daily bread') is a bakery-restaurant chain founded in 1990 by Alain Coumont. Alain was dissatisfied with the quality of bread in Brussels, so he started making his own sourdough bread using only four ingredients: water, flour, salt and time. Now Le Pain Quotidien has more than two hundred restaurants in fifteen countries, spread over three continents.
- Headquarters in Brussels, Amsterdam, London and Paris
- 5.000 employees worldwide
- Active in 15 countries
- 41% / 59%
- Black outerwear
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