Prep Cook in Penrith

Join the Filling Station team at Rheged ad help us to serve fresh, tasty food to our visitors throughout the day.

The role will involve breakfast prep, so an early start is essential, to enable you to prepare and cook our breakfast favourites including bacon and sausages, and keep warm rolls ready for the morning rush.

Lunchtime prep will include cooking food for your colleagues to serve to our customers, hot pies, soup and our famous sausage rolls, all made in house by our Westmorland Kitchen food team. You will need to keep a continuous supply making sure they are fresh, hot and well stocked at all times.

You will also be preparing some of our cold lunch items such as our freshly made baguettes, taking care that every ingredient is fresh and everything is made to our high standards.

You will need to ensure that our food items are kept replenished throughout the day to ensure customers are encouraged to buy our freshly prepared products and you will maintain a high standard of cleanliness and hygiene in our kitchen area and follow all relevant food hygiene and allergen guidelines.

You should have a positive 'can do mindset, a passion for delivering great customer service and a willingness to learn about our products.

If you have previous experience in a kitchen environment that's great but don't worry if you don't. We offer full training to get you up to speed and give you knowledge of all our products and how we work at the Westmorland Family.

At Westmorland we are family business that started in 1972 from our farm in Cumbria, which runs unique motorway service areas – Tebay, Gloucester and Cairn Lodge – based on no franchises but instead our own Farmshops and Kitchens. We also have Junction 38, a services dedicated to HGV drivers, Rheged, a meeting place, Cafe, Gallery and Cinema, and the Westmorland Hotel situated on the edge of the Lake District.

We are proud to be connected to our place and that our family of colleagues share our values of Warmth, Graft and Courage. If you join our family it will be hard work at times but we offer a great range of benefits including generous discounts in our farmshops and kitchens, free meals when working on shift, generous holiday entitlements plus a paid day off for your birthday and more.