Executive Chef

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 strong 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
• 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.