Pro practiceExecutive Chef practice interview
Setting the culinary direction, leading multiple kitchen teams, controlling food cost and maintaining safe, consistent production. Practise the 6 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
A Pro practice interview, on the Pro plan from ₦5,000 a month billed yearly, or on Premium.
- Lead
- 20 minutes
- 6 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
This executive chef interview goes beyond cooking technique into culinary direction, leadership, food safety and financial control. The panel is looking for someone who can shape a credible menu, build a strong brigade and deliver consistent food across routine service and high-volume functions.
How to prepare
- Prepare to explain how you develop, test, cost and launch a menu.
- Review your controls for purchasing, yield, portions, waste and stock movement.
- Think through a serious refrigeration or food safety incident from discovery to follow-up.
- Prepare an example of developing senior chefs and addressing damaging kitchen behaviour.
- Review how you assess the capacity and service risks of a proposed event menu.
Common mistakes
- Focusing on personal cooking skill while saying little about leading other chefs.
- Suggesting menu changes without considering equipment, labour, service and food cost.
- Giving vague assurances about food safety instead of describing checks and records.
- Accepting an event menu before testing production and service capacity.
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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