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Expectations to the chef.

This will be put in place as of tomorrow - 17th October 2015

1. Clear concise information is given to the chef. How many rooms? Style of menu? Covers? Accommodation – what is it? Pay frequency and on which day? Start date and time? What are the shifts? Will you get meals on duty? We stipulate min 40 hours per week over 5 days or 8 hours per day if 4 days or less.
2. Clean single accommodation is to be provided. What it is? How many people sharing with? Where is the accommodation? Tv wifi?
3. We will give guidance on chefs not paid issues 1. Call the establishment 2. Write to the establishment 3. Contact ACAS Tel: 0300 123 1100
4. For good loyal chefs we will try our best and keep you in work all year round.
5. Happy to undertake getting a Disclosure Scotland.
6. Must be prepared to come and meet at our office in Moffat.

News page 14th October 2015.

This week at Chefs In Scotland we have been busy organising our Moffat Business and Training Centre evening. The cheese and wine evening took place yesterday evening and we had a really good turnout. The business plan and the architects drawing were available for local people and businesses to have a look at. We served all Scottish cheese including some lovely Tain Brie, a Scottish Gouda and some crowdie cheese coated in oatmeal and blackpepper. Served with some chardonnay, bordeaux and juice for the drivers.

Fingers crossed this is the first of many successful MB&TC events hopefully with some positive outlooks from the locals last night.

Relief is still quite busy for this time of year but the availability is getting better.

There are still lots of permanent jobs available in different locations across Scotland. A lot of them are live-in and vary from 2AA rosette establishments to busy bistros.

If you are looking for work please feel free to contact me if you want to know more about the exciting opportunities available.

For now the phones are ringing merrily, Bentley is out for his walk and it’s time to add this short news page to the website.

Jessica

availability of relief chefs

Newsletter 7th October 2015

So that is Johanna back from her holidays and we are now back up to full strength in the Chefs In Scotland office including Bentley the Basset-Hound. Michael is busy working on the Moffat Business and Training Centre with our local graduate Euan. They are busy working on the business plan, feasibility study and our MB&TC evening next week. We are holding a cheese and wine evening so local businesses can come and see the plans and drawings that we have for MB&TC and ask any questions they may have. We hope to get some more local support to push on with the project. I have been entrusted to get the wine and the cheese which will all be Scottish so any recommendations would be extremely grateful.

I have been getting my head around permanent recruitment after working on relief for a few days in Johanna’s absence. For this time of year the office is very busy, the phones are ringing merrily, adverts flowing in and relief is getting tighter by the minute. That’s 1 permanent placement made and 3 adverts so definitely getting there!

Johanna is busy working away on relief after being updated on all the comings and goings of our relief chefs, new and old and has already managed to get 3 relief jobs and 3 adverts today! So she has definitely got stuck right in.

The weather in Moffat is overcast and cloudy with potential rain and it is certainly starting to feel more like autumn. Now there is just over 11 weeks till Christmas it won’t be long until we are deep in snow and ice but hopefully a few brighter days on the cards before that happens.

For now back to chasing up some references.

Jessica