Strata Kitchen · Café Strata·Tier · The working leads.·×1
Day Sous Chef / Café & Prep Lead
OpenFull-time · Bo Phut, Koh Samui · Interviews now · Training during fit-out · Opening September 7, 2026
The Head Chef's right hand. You run the daytime café line and build the mise en place that the evening depends on.
This is not a second competing culinary-management position. It is the daytime operator of one shared kitchen: café execution, shared prep, and a clean handover into Humo service every afternoon.
What you'll do
- Café breakfast and lunch execution.
- Shared mise en place and preparation for Humo.
- Daily prep handover; pars and storage discipline.
- Training junior cooks; quality consistency and hygiene.
- Cover the Head Chef when needed.
What we're looking for
- 3+ years professional kitchen experience, including café, brunch or modern casual volume.
- Organised, cost-aware and comfortable leading a very small team.
How you're measured
- Prep completion and handover quality
- Café ticket time and consistency
- Waste, pars and stock accuracy
- Hygiene scores
How we hire for this role
- Reports to
- Head Chef / Culinary Lead
- Schedule
- Early / day shifts; six operating days per week with one common closure day.
- Screening question
- How do you structure a morning so that café service and evening prep both finish on time?
- Interview method
- Cook and prep practical + prep-list planning exercise + one-sick-call operating scenario.
CV required
Compensation
THB 26,000–30,000 / month
+ monthly service charge
Base positioned on experience within the published range.
Career path
Day Sous Chef → Head Chef / Culinary Lead
We promote from within. Every lead role here has a defined path to running a venue — or the next branch.