Role: Production Kitchen Manager Salary £45,000 Location: Uxbridge About Dish’d Dish’d is the UK’s fastest-growing franchisor of virtual food brands. We partner with food operators, helping them maximise their kitchen capacity by launching and scaling delivery-only virtual brands across key platforms. About The Role The Production Kitchen Manager is responsible for ensuring Dish’d’s central production kitchen consistently delivers every product safely, efficiently and to specification. Reporting to the Head of Food, this role turns product development into production reality — taking recipes and concepts through recipe cards, batch sheets, training materials, pilot runs and full-scale production. This is a highly hands-on role, with an approximate 80:20 split between practical kitchen operations and management . You will be actively involved in production while also leading the day-to-day running of the Central Production Unit (CPU), managing the kitchen team and ensuring new products are successfully embedded into production. You will be responsible for maintaining high standards across product quality, food safety, consistency, cost control and operational efficiency. This role will suit someone who is practical, organised and process-driven, with a strong focus on getting things right every time. What You’ll Do CPU Operations Management Lead day-to-day operations of the production kitchen, ensuring safe, efficient and consistent output. Manage production schedules, staffing, batching, yields and throughput. Ensure adherence to recipes, SOPs, allergens, HACCP and compliance standards. Implement and maintain inventory controls, stock rotation and raw material checks. Troubleshoot operational issues and escalate risks early Turning Development Into Production Convert new product development outputs into full production documentation: Recipe cards Batch sheets Costed ingredient lists How-to videos Step-by-step process guides Run pilot batches for all new items and provide structured feedback to the Head of Food. Flag scaling issues early and recommend adjustments for efficiency and consistency. Recipe Accuracy, Documentation
Production Kitchen Manager (CPU)
