About Huuva

Huuva Kitchens turn local communities into culinary hotspots by catering the best dishes from the hottest restaurants worldwide. Lunches, brunches, suppers or dinners. Local favourites and international specials. Pop-ups and fresh drops. With Huuva, there’s always something new that you can mix and match to be delivered to your door with superior convenience and quality.

In practice, Huuva operates a network of local kitchens that plug into the local and global food scene, making those experiences accessible beyond the most central city locations with always something new to discover. As our dishes are made locally, they also come to you faster. Saving time, money and the environment.

Our kitchen technology enables our chefs to focus on the most important thing - the quality and joy of making the best dishes. All are curated and cooked by people with a passion for great food and an appetite for what comes next. This is the power of the most advanced kitchen platform ever created.

About the role

To offer the most exciting, top-quality, and fresh food experiences, we are recruiting an experienced, full-stack restaurant industry expert to lead the building, management, and development of Huuva’s kitchen operations in Germany, starting from Berlin.

As an Executive Chef / Kitchen Operations Lead, you are responsible for

• Building, developing and managing robust and scalable kitchen operations based on data, customer feedback and own observations to meet the quality and kitchen operations targets.

• Operational management of kitchen operations projects, including but not limited to new kitchen openings, new restaurant brand implementations, procurement, and process development.

• Enabling the efficient scaling of Huuva’s kitchen operations in Germany, starting from Berlin.

• Creating Huuva kitchens as motivating and safe workplaces for talented venue managers and kitchen crew.

• Hiring, training and leading a team of venue managers and supporting them to lead their kitchens independently without you micro-managing every detail.

• Identifying and delivering the most interesting food experiences to customers by implementing up-and-coming culinary trends and hero restaurant brands in Huuva kitchens.

• Communicating Huuva OS feature requests and feedback from the kitchens to the product team and vice versa.

What we expect

• You know the ins and outs of setting up and managing professional, high-volume kitchens.

• You are a people person who speaks the same language as top restaurateurs, and you enjoy coaching and managing your team of venue managers and kitchen crew.

• You’re an all-rounder restaurant industry veteran with a creative, forward-looking mindset and a never-ending hunger to learn.

• You can rigorously prioritise your work to get things done at the office and kitchen.

• You drive for continuous improvement in everything you do and are not afraid of getting your hands dirty, even in kitchen work.

• You have a high bar for your work, and you demand the same from your peers and team members.

• You thrive on rethinking how commercial-grade kitchens can perform more efficiently with top quality, safety and customer experience.

• You have an excellent eye for detail in satisfying and surpassing customer expectations day after day.

• You have excellent communication skills in English and German.

• Deep understanding of up-and-coming culinary and restaurant trends and excellent gastro industry connections in Germany.

What we offer

• Opportunity to grow, take ownership and build things from scratch

• A culture of full transparency and ownership

• Growth startup environment

• Smart and easy-going colleagues

• Competitive salary and option package

About the process

Submit your CV and cover letter. The recruiting process includes 2 x interviews and a case assignment. We go through the candidates on a rolling basis.

Department

Kitchen operations

Locations

Berlin