THE OPPORTUNITY An urban Indian eats about 90 meals a month. About 80 of them are everyday meals: dal, sabzi, and roti. Food delivery apps serve almost none of these. Most homes still depend on a part-time cook who has about an hour per home, so food gets cooked whenever the cook has a slot and is eaten cold or microwaved. We make three promises to the people who eat with us:
• Food made fresh in small batches and served hot, the way your mother would serve it at home.
• A kitchen you can trust as much as your own.
• The nutrition you need, from your daily meals. We deliver this through Live Kitchens. Each one is 3,000 to 4,000 sq ft and serves the homes and offices within about 2 km, so food reaches people hot within 10 minutes. Our own software, the Kitchen OS, runs the kitchen: what to cook, how much, and when. We are well capitalized to build this
- we have raised $3.7 million in our angel+seed round from top VCs and founders in India, including founders of Blinkit, Cred, Tata 1mg, Chaayos, TBO.com, CoinSwitch, PocketFM, the ex-CTO of Zomato and Blinkit, and more. WHAT YOU WILL OWN
• SOP Execution at Scale: Own end-to-end production against standardized recipes and processes.
• Mass Production Excellence: Run high-volume daily meal production with precision — batch planning, mise en place discipline, timing, and throughput.
• Quality & Process Discipline: Enforce food safety, hygiene, and consistency standards. Build and maintain checklists, audits, and quality gates.
• Team Supervision: Lead kitchen staff with clarity and calm. Set expectations, train relentlessly,



and hold the line on discipline.
• Build the Kitchen Playbook: Work closely with the founder to define and refine SOPs, workflows, and operating rhythms for kitchen operations as the company scales. WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE
• You’ll be one of the earliest members of the founding team. It’s a chance to build the kitchen that feeds a new category of food-tech.
• You’ll have direct access to the founder, real ownership of outcomes, and the opportunity to shape how an entire operation runs from day one.
• When we succeed, this role will be career-defining. WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
• Hands-on and comfortable being on the ground, driving execution end-to-end
• Graduate of a Management Training Program (MTP) from a reputed 5-star hotel brand with 1-7 years of experience as a Junior Sous Chef / Sous Chef.
• Expertise in Indian Cuisine is a MUST. Experience in mass production, banquet, or bulk cooking operations is preferred i.e. you’ve cooked at scale and understand batch control.
• Deeply disciplined and detail-oriented. You find comfort in systems, checklists, and repeatable processes.
• Calm under pressure. Structured and firm in execution — not reactive or ad hoc.




• Comfortable operating within strict SOP-driven environments.
• Hands-on. You lead from the pass, not from a desk. WHY THIS ROLE IS DIFFERENT This is a foundational role in building our kitchen operations from 0 to 1. You will translate our culinary vision into consistent, scalable execution while establishing the processes, standards, and systems that will define our kitchens as we grow. What you build here will become the operating playbook for the future. PAY AND EQUITY We pay competitive salaries along with meaningful equity, so everyone who helps build Annapoorna shares in what it becomes. You grow with the company, and your stake grows with your impact. This role is for a chef who wants to grow into the head of kitchen operations as we open more kitchens.

HOW TO APPLY
Apply on LinkedIn with your resume. We read every application. OUR BELIEFS
• Nourishment is the point; taste is how it wins. We engineer wellbeing people crave, every single day.
• Outstanding craft should multiply. We encode expertise into systems, so our best day in the kitchen becomes every customer’s every day.
• Consistency is a joy, not a chore. The 10,000th meal should taste like the first.
• Every role is a mandate. You own outcomes, co-create the how, and shape important decisions from week one.
• Low ego, high conviction. We argue hard, decide boldly, and put the mission above ourselves.
• The first people here shape the culture. We are deliberately building a company with a soul, and you’ll be part of how it’s formed.

📌 Sous Chef (Gurugram)
🏢 Annapoorna
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