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Join The Thirsty Farmer, an award-winning country pub in Baradine, NSW

We are looking for someone Mid-Long term.  Someone to join our team and take on the kitchen. You’ll have the freedom and support to create a simple, tasty, and profitable menu, manage operations, and help grow the pub into a popular food destination with the support of the owner. 

Someone who can:

• Design and cost a simple, tasty, and profitable menu

• Create simple specials

• Manage stock, suppliers, and ordering

• Oversee prep, recipes, and portion control

• Manage budgets, targets and KPIs to ensure profitablity

• Maintain kitchen hygiene and food safety standards

• Work closely with owners to grow food trade and reputation

• Have proven experience in a pub, café, or bistro kitchen

• Demonstrate strong understanding of food costs, efficiencies, and ordering

• Create quality meals efficiently and consistently

• Take ownership and bring cost-effective ideas to the table

• Contribute to menu planning and event catering

• Show strong time-management and organisational skills

• Take pride in presentation, cleanliness, and kitchen standards

• Maintain excellent cost control, manage wastage, and price dishes accurately

• Hold a Food Safety Certificate and

• Solid knowledge of menu prep, costings, stock control, ordering, suppliers, service and marketing

• Be comfortable working independently or as part of a small, friendly crew

• RSA beneficial