Kitchen Assistant

You prep the vegetables, peel and chop onions, potatoes and carrots, and keep the cold station stocked before service starts. During the rush you wash dishes, pots and trays, run them through the industrial dishwasher and dry the knives by hand. You haul deliveries from the back door to the storeroom and keep the walk-in fridge in order. Between orders you wipe down the counters, mop the floor and take out the bins. Shifts run in two patterns, an early one from around 7 to 15 and a late one from 15 to 23, and weekends are the busiest. The head cook tells you what comes next, so you do not need to guess.

Able to stand and move for most of an eight hour shift

Comfortable lifting crates and sacks up to around 20 kg

Clean and quick with a knife, or willing to learn fast

Reliable about showing up on time, including weekends

Basic English to follow simple instructions

Relocation help and shared accommodation arranged near the site

One hot meal on every shift

Transport to and from work when the kitchen is outside the city

Health insurance from your first month

You start as a kitchen assistant at 740 euro net per month. Once you know the stations and can keep up during service, you move up to 860 euro net. After that the next step is line cook, with its own pay and a real say in the menu.

The kitchen is a working horeca site, hot near the stoves and cooler at the prep tables, with tiled floors that get wet during service. You wear an apron, non slip shoes and gloves for the cleaning chemicals. It gets loud and fast when the tickets pile up, but the team is small and everyone pitches in.