RTC1 Recruitment Services is hiring a Food Quality Team Lead for a client: a quick-service restaurant (QSR) concept in Dubai known for burgers, fried chicken, and a range of street-food favourites. The role leads food quality assurance, kitchen operating standards, and hands-on culinary training across the outlets and the central kitchen. You will standardise recipe manuals, kitchen SOPs, and cooking procedures, train chefs and cooks, and run regular kitchen audits and food quality inspections against brand standards. The employer wants at least five years of QSR kitchen experience, direct experience with burger and fried chicken operations, and a valid UAE driving licence with your own car. The post is seven hours old and already has over 200 applicants.
About the Client — Dubai QSR Concept
Concept: A quick-service restaurant brand based in Dubai
Menu: Burgers, fried chicken, and a variety of street-food favourites
Operations: Multiple QSR outlets supported by a central kitchen
Recruiter: RTC1 Recruitment Services handles applications on the client’s behalf, and the brand name is not given in the public listing
Why This Food Quality Team Lead Role in Dubai Stands Out in 2026
Kitchen-Based Quality: This is a hands-on role for someone who has worked the line, not a desk-only compliance job
Standards You Write: You standardise recipe manuals, SOPs, and cooking procedures that the whole operation then follows
Training Leadership: You design and deliver practical training for chefs, cooks, and kitchen teams
Growing QSR Market: Dubai’s fast-food and street-food scene keeps expanding, and consistency is what brands compete on
Posted 7 hours ago with over 200 applicants — send a tidy Word-format CV quickly, and use the exact email subject the recruiter asks for.
Position Overview
The Food Quality Team Lead owns food quality and kitchen standards across the client’s QSR outlets and central kitchen. You will write and standardise the documents that keep a kitchen consistent: recipe manuals, SOPs, cooking procedures, and guidelines. You will then make sure people actually follow them by designing and delivering structured, practical training for chefs, cooks, and kitchen teams, covering recipe execution, cooking techniques, and product consistency. Finally, you will check the results through regular kitchen audits and food quality inspections against brand standards. Because the work covers several locations, you move between outlets and the central kitchen, which is why a driving licence and a personal car are required. It is a leadership position, so the employer also wants strong communication and coaching skills and good MS Office skills for writing SOPs, recipe manuals, training materials, and audit reports.
Why This Role Matters: In a burger and fried chicken business, customers come back for one thing above all: the product tasting the same every visit, at every outlet. That consistency does not happen by accident. It comes from clear recipe manuals, kitchen procedures that people understand, training that sticks, and checks that catch drift before customers notice it. The food quality team lead is the person who builds that system and keeps it running. When a new cook can follow a recipe card and get the right result, or an audit finds a small problem before it becomes a complaint, that is this role doing its job. For an experienced QSR kitchen professional who enjoys teaching and setting standards, it is a natural next step up from running a kitchen.
Key Responsibilities
Food Quality & Kitchen Standards
- Lead food quality assurance and kitchen operational standards across QSR outlets and central kitchen operations
- Make sure every outlet produces the same product to the same standard
Recipes, SOPs & Procedures
- Standardise and implement recipe manuals, kitchen SOPs, cooking procedures, and guidelines
- Keep documents clear, current, and easy for kitchen teams to follow
Practical Training
- Design and deliver structured practical training programmes for chefs, cooks, and kitchen teams
- Cover recipe execution, cooking techniques, and product consistency
Audits & Inspections
- Conduct regular kitchen audits and food quality inspections as per brand standards
- Prepare audit reports and follow up so findings get fixed
Qualifications & Requirements
Must-Haves
- 5+ years of kitchen experience in a QSR environment as a Sous Chef, Head Chef, Kitchen Operations Leader, Senior Cook, or equivalent
- Hands-on burger and fried chicken QSR experience
- Valid UAE driving licence and access to a personal car, to travel between outlets and central kitchen facilities
Skills
- Strong leadership, communication, and coaching skills
- Proficiency in MS Office for preparing SOPs, recipe manuals, training materials, and audit reports
How to Apply — Food Quality Team Lead
Send your CV in Word format and use “Food Quality Team Lead” as the email subject.
The recruiter writes the address out in words to avoid spam:
FNBOPSJOBS2021 [at] gmail [dot] com
You can also use the Apply button on the LinkedIn listing.
About the Opportunity — Dubai’s QSR Scene
Dubai has a busy quick-service market, with many burger, chicken, and street-food brands competing for the same customers. In that setting, a recognisable, consistent product is a real advantage, and quality leads are the people who protect it. This listing is posted by RTC1 Recruitment Services for an unnamed client, a Dubai QSR concept built around burgers, fried chicken, and street-food favourites. The role is full-time at mid-senior level.
Good to Know: The listing says salary depends on experience and qualifications and gives no figure. It does not mention benefits, so ask about pay, allowances, and fuel or car support at the interview stage.
Who Should Apply?
- QSR Sous Chefs and Head Chefs: With five or more years in fast-food kitchens who enjoy training and setting standards
- Burger and Fried Chicken Kitchen Leaders: Who know how these products are made, held, and kept consistent at volume
- Kitchen Operations Leaders: Ready to move from running a kitchen to improving quality across many
- Trainer-Minded Senior Cooks: Comfortable coaching teams and writing clear procedures
- Dubai-Based Candidates With a Car: Holding a valid UAE driving licence and able to travel between outlets and the central kitchen
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