Chef practice interview

Menu execution, food safety, kitchen organisation, cost control and leading a busy service. Practise the 6 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.

Practise this interview free

Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.

Mid level
20 minutes
6 questions
Scored feedback on paid plans

About the role

A chef turns the menu into consistent dishes during busy services. You run a section or a kitchen, keep food safe, control stock and costs and lead the team on the line. The panel wants to see skill, organisation and leadership under pressure.

How to prepare

Prepare a menu you executed and how you kept every plate consistent.
Refresh food safety basics, including storage temperatures and cross contamination.
Be ready to explain how you cost a dish and control waste.
Think through how you lead the team during a rush when something goes wrong.
Expect a cooking test and practise a dish you can make well under time pressure.

Common mistakes

Talking only about cooking and ignoring costs and food safety.
Blaming the team when describing a bad service.
Overreaching in a cooking test instead of doing something simple well.

What to expect

A real first-round interview

6 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.

Spoken, like the real thing

Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.

Scored on 5 areas

The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.

A private report

On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.

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