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2025 Summer Help in the Guesthouse - Kitchen and cleaning

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The experience

Come and stay in one of the few Kerry's 5 star guesthouse - stay and live in a comfort environment and sleep beside the sea in a private room. Help us in our kitchen to deliver our award winning breakfasts.
Kitchen skills training will be given to serve our fresh breakfast menu items.
We require a fast and efficient experienced breakfast cook to help prepare our breakfasts for a maximum of 18 residents per day.
Kitchen experience is necessary.

What you offer

30 hours of help per week

Cooking: Choose the menu, pick ingredients and cook delicious dishes.

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Discounts on Tours: Get discounts for tours and excursions around town.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Free Hiking Tours: We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!

Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Surfboards: You can use our surfboards as much as you want.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Beginner French or Beginner English

Over 23 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

We have a busy and very popular award winning guesthouse and we need extra pair of hands to help the owner in the kitchen in the busy summer months of 2024. We have a structured day creating buffet and cooked breakfasts.
Presentation of the food is important and the quality of our ingredients is very high.

Activities & Shift

Each day starts approximately 8am ( sometimes earlier if we have guests who need to leave early)
You will work with the team and prepare all the breakfast ingredients in house using local and in house produce. We bake our croissants and breads in our ovens, fresh fruit salads, compote, yoghurts, and make the kitchens ready for the wait staff to take a la carte orders. Our shifts are 5 hours per day 8am-12 with an hour for clean down of the kitchen cook area after the breakfast is finished.

Rules

We really need an experienced kitchen cook with good timing and control cooking multiple servings at the same time. You should have experience cooking in a cafe, or small restaurant. managing up to 4 orders simultaneously.
We will need hygiene and presentation to be a priority. Training will be given and there will be time to practice and supervision is offered to anyone needing additional confidence. A great opportunity for a junior chef to move to the next level.