Head Chef

Head Chef – Help Shape the Next Chapter of The Murmur

£14.00 per hour base pay, with performance rewards

Love creating great food? Ready to put your own stamp on a menu and grow with an independent business?

The Murmur is an independent coffee lounge and tapas venue, relaunching this month following a complete refurbishment. With a fresh look, a new tapas menu launching and exciting plans for expansion, we’re looking for a passionate Head Chef to help bring our next chapter to life.

Your kitchen. Your creativity. Our next chapter.

You’ll have the freedom to shape and develop our menu, bring fresh ideas to the table and build a kitchen you’re proud to lead. We want someone who cares about every plate, enjoys leading a team and understands how to turn great food into a successful food business.

Alongside cooking and menu development, you’ll take ownership of dish specifications, recipe costings, stock control and kitchen margins. Your ideas will help us create food our guests love, with consistent quality and a commercially sound approach.

A clear opportunity to earn more

Your base pay will be £14.00 per hour, complemented by a transparent performance reward scheme with five tiers.

Each tier is linked to the kitchen’s daily dish output, giving you a clear understanding of how your rewards increase as the kitchen grows. At the highest tier, total annual earnings can reach £40,000.

Grow with The Murmur

This is an opportunity to influence more than one menu. The dishes and standards you develop in Cardiff will help shape the food offering at future Murmur locations.

Our second site in Dinas Powys is planned to open within 60 days of the Cardiff relaunch, with further locations to follow. Joining us now means playing a key part in that journey, with room for your role to develop as the business grows.

We’d love to hear from you if you:

• Bring strong cooking skills and a passion for fresh, flavourful food.
• Enjoy developing menus and making creative ideas work in practice.
• Lead by example and help your team deliver consistently high standards.
• Understand recipe costing, stock management and gross profit margins.
• Take pride in an organised, well-run kitchen.
• Are excited to help build an ambitious independent hospitality brand.

What we offer

• Creative freedom to shape and evolve the menu.
• A clear performance reward structure.
• The opportunity to influence the food across future locations.
• A newly refurbished venue.
• Seven-day daytime trading, with tapas service on just four evenings a week.
• The chance to grow alongside an expanding independent business.

If you’re ready to bring your ideas, experience and personality to The Murmur, we’d love to hear from you. Send us your CV and a little about yourself to start the conversation.

Pay: From £14.00 per hour

Expected hours: 20.0 – 40.0 per week

Work Location: In person