Looking for an Executive Chef with the core focus of menu development to oversee our 3 Melbourne based team

Executive Chef – Menu Development | Roasting Warehouse Group
Roasting Warehouse is a family-owned specialty coffee roastery with a growing hospitality group across Melbourne. Alongside our roastery, we operate cafés in Airport West, North Melbourne and Docklands, plus FILIA – our all-day bistro café and wine bar in Strathmore.
We're looking for an experienced Executive Chef to lead food across the group. This is not a pass-and-service role. Your core focus will be menu development: creating, testing and rolling out food that's consistent, profitable and genuinely good, then supporting our venue head chefs to deliver it every day.
The role

Lead menu development across all venues – seasonal changes, new dishes, specials and menu refreshes
Build and maintain recipe cards, plating guides, specs and costings for every dish
Work to food cost and GP targets – menu engineering, supplier pricing and portion control
Oversee kitchen operations across the group and work closely with each venue's head chef
Train and develop kitchen teams on new menus, standards and techniques
Drive consistency in quality, presentation and execution across all sites
Manage supplier relationships, ordering systems and product sourcing




Ensure food safety, HACCP and compliance standards are met at every venue
Collaborate with management and marketing on launches, events and new concepts

About you

Proven experience as an Executive Chef, Head Chef or Development Chef, ideally across multiple venues
A robust portfolio of menu creation in bistro or all-day dining
Commercially minded – confident with costings, GP and menu engineering
A leader who can coach and support head chefs without needing to run every service
Organised, self-driven and comfortable moving between sites
Current food safety supervisor certificate (or willingness to obtain)
Full driver's licence and own vehicle preferred

What we offer

Flexible working hours – this is a development-led role, not a service-led one
Creative ownership of the food direction across a growing group
A family-owned business with the backing of an established specialty coffee brand
Market-competitive salary, commensurate with experience
Staff discounts across our venues and coffee
Room to grow with the group as we expand

If you're a chef who loves building menus as much as cooking them, we'd love to hear from you. Apply with your CV and, if you have one, a sample menu or portfolio of your work.

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