Junior/ Commis Chef
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Salary: £10-16k per year

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The role of Junior (or Commis) Chef is often the starting position for a career within the kitchen. Although job titles and responsibilities vary, you will have an active role in preparation work and basic cooking, under the supervision of more experienced chefs.

Ideally, you will work in a number of areas in the kitchen, giving you the widest possible experience before you consider specialising in one particular area (e.g. pastry work). The type of cooking you help out with will depend on the style of the operation, the kind of menu offered to customer, and the prices they pay for their meals. It could range from the finest meals in the private dining room of a contract catering operation or top end restaurant, to a range of hot and cold dishes in a self-service restaurant, or the sandwiches, filled rolls, salads and similar items available in a snack bar.

Sometimes there is minimum preparation involved in making a meal, but there is still a level of skill required to produce a perfectly cooked and well-presented dish - high standards of hygiene, and accuracy in measuring dish ingredients and portion sizes are essential to good practice.

The shifts a junior chef works will vary according to the operation. For example, you may start early in the morning preparing breakfast in a hotel kitchen, or later in the evening for a special event, such as a buffet, wedding banquet or cocktail party.

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