Cook in Amsterdam

RESTO111 is the renovated restaurant of the Vreugdehof residential care center. The restaurant is accessible to everyone; guests can come here to enjoy lunch at a reasonable price or grab a drink or snack. If you come to work in our restaurant, you will have a wonderful dual role: as a cook, you prepare the most delicious dishes in the kitchen, but you are also strong in organizational skills.

Your workday begins with making and preparing fresh dishes. You do this as much as possible using ingredients from our own vegetable and herb garden. If that is where your interest lies, you may also tend to these during working hours. At 12:00 PM, the restaurant opens and approximately 60 to 80 colleagues come daily to enjoy your meals. In addition to colleagues, you also offer a warm welcome to residents, family, or other visitors who come to eat.

In the afternoon, you manage a coffee and tea moment, and during cocktail hour, you provide people with a little advocaat and a cake or something else delicious. In your work, you will receive a lot of freedom to contribute your ideas regarding new meals, fun promotions, holidays, and themes.

What else you do:

• You place orders with suppliers, purchasing efficiently and with cost-consciousness
• You bring structure to the kitchen and are strongly planning-oriented
• You work in a structured and organized manner so that you can also provide direction to other colleagues
• You maintain an overview in the calendar regarding requirements for meetings and groups and prepare snacks and meals for these
• Is a team member absent due to circumstances? Then you arrange replacement with the team.
• You manage flexible workers and volunteers

The restaurant is open 7 days a week. You will work a minimum of 4 days per week and the working hours are from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM; in consultation with your team, you will also occasionally work on weekends.

Does your heart beat faster for sustainability and vegetarian dishes? Then you have come to the right place at RESTO111! Because we find sustainability important, and we commit to it daily. For example, 60 to 70% of the assortment is vegetarian, we handle food and food waste smartly, and we use as little plastic as possible. Partly due to this, RESTO111 was recently the winner of the Gaia Green Award 2025.

Nursing home and rehabilitation center Vreugdehof can be found on the outskirts of Amsterdam Buitenveldert. Drop in and experience the cozy, warm atmosphere! Here you will find residents, clients, and rehabilitants with dementia, a chronic physical illness, or a disability. About 160 colleagues work here across 9 care teams.

At Vreugdehof, there is a great deal of social involvement and attention to what is happening in society. Additionally, we find diversity very important: everyone can be themselves at Vreugdehof; respect for one another and freedom are taken for granted. We are therefore the proud holders of the 'Roze Loper' certificate: the quality mark for nursing and care homes that pay attention to sexual diversity among both clients and employees.