Overview
An exciting new opportunity to join us has arisen. Sweet Mandarin is a Chinese restaurant in Manchester with recipes that have been cooking and simmering for three generations over a hundred years with recipes written down on the back of envelopes and memorised by heart as if they were nursery rhymes.
About the apprenticeship
Duties will include:
- Maintaining excellent standards of personal, food and restaurant hygiene
- Personable and friendly to customers
- Checking on customers during their dinner and making special occasions e.g. birthday and anniversaries memorable
- Checking with the kitchen and adapting dishes to meet special dietary requirements and allergies
- Communicate internally with kitchen team and externally with customers and colleagues
- Commit to personal development activities
- Undertake cleaning regime including washing up and cleaning of the whole restaurant and toilets
Apprenticeship qualification and training
- Hospitality Team Member Level 2 Apprenticeship Standard
- EPA
- Functional skills if required.
About the employer
Family Origins...
Spanning almost a hundred years, the story behind this restaurant the lives of three generations of remarkable Chinese women.
Their extraordinary journey takes us from the brutal poverty of village life in mainland China, to newly prosperous 1930s Hong Kong and finally to the UK. Their lives were as dramatic as the times they lived through.
A love of food and a talent for cooking pulled each generation through the most devastating of upheavals. Helen's grandmother, Lily Kwok, was forced to work as an amah after the violent murder of her father. Crossing the ocean from Hong Kong in the 1950s, Lily honed her famous chicken curry recipe. Eventually she opened one of Manchester's earliest Chinese restaurants where her daughter, Mabel, worked from the tender age of nine. But gambling and the Triads were pervasive in the Chinese immigrant community, and tragically they lost the restaurant. It was up to Helen and her sisters, the third generation to re-establish their grandmother's dream. The legacy lived on when the sisters opened their award-winning restaurant Sweet Mandarin in 2004.
Sweet Mandarin shows how the most important inheritance is wisdom, and how recipes passed down the female line can be the most valuable heirloom.
Employer
SWEET MANDARIN LIMITED
Address
19Copperas Street
M4 1HS View Map