Welcome Break, Pizza Express, OXFORD OX33 1LJ
Immediate start and full-time or part-time flexible positions available Pay up to £13.35ph
Are you a friendly, welcoming person? Ready to join a hard-working kitchen team and build a career? If that’s you, you could make a fantastic Chef at a Welcome Break Pizza Express.
The role of a Chef (Pizzaiolo) is to make sure that our food exceeds customer’s expectations. What really matters is that you’re a hard worker who’s always willing to get stuck in and support your team. Excellent communication skills are a must too, plus plenty of enthusiasm and a passion for providing a superb customer experience.
In return for giving customers great food experiences, we will support you on your own career journey. We offer bespoke training, recognised qualifications, and exciting career paths. Work hard and you’ll go far!
Due to responsibilities within the Chef role, applicants will need to be 18 years of age or over. Hourly rate of pay for the Chef role will differ for under 21’s. Please note internally we call this role a Pizzaiolo.
Welcome Break is one of the UK’s leading motorway service operators, running 61 service areas and 31 hotels across the UK. Working for Welcome Break is not what it may seem to our everyday customer. When you come into one of our sites you will recognise your favourite brands such as Starbucks, Taco Bell, Subway, WHSmith, KFC, Pizza Express and Burger King, as well hotels under the Ramada and Days Inn brands. But what might come as a surprise is that we are all one team and that even with different uniforms, everyone works for Welcome Break.
Welcome Break is one of the UK’s leading motorway service area operators, running 53 service areas and 31 hotels across the UK. Welcome Break amenity buildings, fuel forecourts, EV charging and hotels are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and attract 85 million customers annually.
We've been around for over 60 years and are in locations across the UK. Our 5,000+ strong team strive to proudly and passionately offer our customers’ world class hospitality and retail brands such as Starbucks, KFC, Burger King, Subway, Waitrose and WHSmith, as well as hotels under the Ramada and Days Inn brands. We are majority owned by Applegreen, a global leading roadside convenience retailer, with operations across the UK, Republic of Ireland and the USA.
Our business is about people, the 85 million people who visit our sites each year and the teams who make the business the success it is. Every one deserves to get a warm welcome and enjoyable break with the very best service, facilities, food and drinks we can provide.
Providing customers with a welcome break is really important to us. Every day here is as challenging as it is enjoyable, as rewarding as it is fun. We believe that the same should be true once our working day is over, so we do everything we can to make sure our teams can get their work/life balance just right!
Everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed at Welcome Break. To make sure that those achievements are recognised, we have many recognition schemes, most of which are peer to peer recognition. What’s more, we work hard to build a culture of openness, listening to customers and our own people so we can identify opportunities to improve service, innovation and engagement.
