Commis Chef Opportunities – Co-op Live Arena
Are you passionate about food and looking to build your career in a fast-paced, exciting kitchen environment? Mint People is recruiting enthusiastic Commis Chefs to join our team at Co-op Live Arena, helping deliver exceptional food experiences at concerts, premium hospitality events, and world-class live entertainment.
Whether you're starting your culinary career or looking to gain experience at one of the UK's leading venues, we'd love to hear from you.
Fortnightly Pay – Get paid every Friday for the hours you work.
Competitive Pay
Career Development – Learn from experienced chefs and develop your skills in a world-class venue.
Exciting Events – Work behind the scenes at major concerts, sporting events, and VIP hospitality experiences.
Flexible Working – Choose shifts that fit around your lifestyle, with both full-time and part-time opportunities available.
As a Commis Chef, you'll play a key role in supporting the kitchen team to deliver exceptional food and service. Duties include, but are not limited to:
Measuring and preparing ingredients according to recipes.
Preparing a variety of ingredients, including meats, vegetables, sauces, and garnishes.
Supporting the Executive Chef, Head Chef, Sous Chefs, and wider kitchen team with food preparation and service.
Assisting with the preparation, cooking, and presentation of high-quality dishes.
Ensuring your workstation is organised and fully prepared before service.
Helping to serve food during busy events where required.
Maintaining the highest standards of food hygiene, cleanliness, and health & safety.
Cleaning kitchen equipment, preparation areas, and workstations throughout service and ensuring the kitchen is fully cleaned and sanitised at the end of each shift.
Monitoring pantry and stock levels, rotating stock in line with food safety procedures, and restocking fridges, freezers, and dry stores as required.
Ensuring all food is stored correctly at appropriate temperatures.
Assisting with stock control and notifying senior chefs when ingredients need replenishing.
Working efficiently as part of a busy kitchen team to deliver outstanding hospitality during high-volume events.
We're looking for Commis Chefs who are:
Passionate about food and eager to learn.
Reliable, hardworking, and able to work well as part of a team.
Comfortable working in a fast-paced kitchen environment.
Committed to delivering high standards of food quality and service.
Right to live and work in the UK.
Good written and spoken English.
At Mint People, we only recruit when we have genuine work available—and we have plenty of opportunities waiting. Whether you're looking for regular hours or flexible shifts to fit around your schedule, we have roles to suit you.
If you're ready to kick-start or grow your culinary career and be part of the team at Co-op Live Arena, apply today and join one of the UK's leading hospitality staffing specialists.
Please note all candidates must have the right to live and work in the UK and possess a strong level of written and spoken English.
Mint People are acting as an employment business. The hourly rate of pay is dependent on each candidate’s individual experience and age.
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Mint People: Flexible Hospitality Staffing That Just Works.
At Mint People, we provide fully trained, highly presentable, and dependable staff to the hospitality, leisure, and events industries. Whether it’s one bartender for a last-minute shift or 150 staff for a stadium event, we’re trusted by some of the UK’s best hotels, venues, and operators to deliver quality people – fast.
With over 10 years’ experience, we’ve become known as one of the most reliable and forward-thinking staffing partners in the North – and beyond. From front-of-house professionals to kitchen porters, housekeepers to event managers, our people are trained in-house through our 5-star onboarding and briefing programme to ensure they’re ready to hit the ground running.
Our clients come back year after year because we understand how unpredictable hospitality can be – and we’re built to flex with it. We’re proud to work with national hotel groups, global event brands, leading caterers and independent operators, offering:
• Fast, flexible staffing solutions – no long contracts or tie-ins
• Fully trained, presentable and prepared people
• Front and back of house cover – including chefs, kitchen teams, bar staff, waiters, housekeepers and more
• Festival and stadium-scale team deployment
• National reach with local knowledge
• On-site support and account management
Our quality promise? We only send people we’d trust to represent our own brand – because they are our brand.
If you need staffing support that’s consistent, stress-free and built around you – you’re in the right place.
Mint People – We've got you covered.
