Chefs & Kitchen Teams
Head Chef, Sous Chef, Pastry Chef, Commis Chef.
Chefs, restaurant managers and hotel operations teams — sourced, checked and placed by a UK chef recruitment agency that understands a kitchen can’t run short-staffed.
Need a chef, restaurant manager or hotel operations specialist on your team? Alliance runs permanent, contract and outsourced HoReCa searches for 12,000+ UK businesses, so you get a shortlist of vetted candidates without carrying the search in-house.
What you get working with Alliance:
From the pass to the front desk, these are the roles we place most for hotels, restaurants and catering employers.
Head Chef, Sous Chef, Pastry Chef, Commis Chef.
Restaurant Manager, General Manager, Assistant Manager, Floor Supervisor.
Hotel Operations Manager, Front of House Manager, Duty Manager, Guest Services Lead.
Event Catering Manager, Banqueting Supervisor, Catering Operative, Events Coordinator.
Whether you need a chef agency for short-notice kitchen cover, or a hospitality recruitment agency search for a permanent hire, it runs through the same screening standard.
Direct hires onto your core kitchen, management or operations team.
Learn moreShort-notice cover for a busy service, a leave gap or an unplanned absence.
Learn moreHand us a whole hiring programme — a new site opening, a seasonal ramp-up — and we run it end to end.
Learn moreRun your own HoReCa hiring process through our AI-assisted platform, with our consultants alongside you.
Learn moreA missing chef on a busy service is a real operational problem — our relief and temp chef pipeline is built for same-week turnaround, not a standard recruitment timeline.
Christmas bookings, event catering and summer trade need extra hands fast — our temp pipeline covers that without a long lead time.
A front-of-house or kitchen hire represents your brand from their first shift — we screen for service and presentation standards as part of the process.
Tell us the role, the team and what “right” looks like.
Our consultants source and screen against the skills that matter.
Fewer, better-matched candidates, not a stack of CVs.
We handle as much of the process as you want us to.
12,000+ UK businesses have hired through Alliance. HoReCa searches run on the same standard — a 98% offer-acceptance rate and a 70% interview-to-offer rate once a candidate is put forward.
Yes — relief and temporary chef cover is one of our most common HoReCa placements.
Yes, restaurant and general managers alongside chefs and kitchen teams.
Yes, we screen specifically for pastry and other specialist kitchen backgrounds where that’s what the role needs.
Yes, scaled to the event or season, not a fixed headcount.
Tell us what horeca role you’re hiring for, and a specialist consultant will get back to you.