The launch – which will comprise five different restaurants including a Lucky Cat, Bread Street Kitchen and a smaller version of Gordon Ramsay’s eponymous flagship in Chelsea - will require a total of 300 staff when it launches in February.
The company’s biggest-ever recruitment drive follows a ‘hugely successful’ internal recruitment campaign in which the business ‘championed and committed to the progression of existing team members from across the UK’.
60% of the new roles created are front of house including servers, bartenders, wine team, reception team, concierge team and management team.
Some new Lucky Cat staff will be trained at the group’s Lucky Cat restaurant in Mayfair ahead of the launch, but all members of the team will have a full month’s training on site in January prior to the February launch.
The group says that new recruits be fully equipped with the skills to deliver the highest standards expected at Gordon Ramsay Restaurants.
“We look forward to continuing to attract, train and nurture passionate hospitality talent to come and join us on this journey, our biggest adventure yet,” says Gordon Ramsay Restaurants CEO Andy Wenlock.
Gordon Ramsay added: “I am incredibly proud of all our restaurants, around the world, however, London will always be home and a very special place to my family and I, it was in this amazing city that I opened my very first restaurant, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea in 1998. It’s a cosmopolitan and vibrant city and to have seen its dynamic growth throughout the city and the skyline over the last 20 years has been incredible.”
