Assistant Restaurant Manager - Gowings, QT Sydney

EVT Limited; Sydney; On-site; AUD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

50% dining discount

Movie tickets discounts

Seasonal Thredbo perks

Career growth

Paid parental leave

Job summary

QT Sydney's Gowings venue is seeking an Assistant Restaurant Manager who can read a floor, charm a room, and manage service with energy.

Join EVT's premium hospitality network and lead a high-volume outlet, coaching the team, maintaining standards, and delivering memorable guest experiences.

This role offers day-one perks, career growth, and a dynamic, design-driven environment.

Qualifications

• 2+ years' experience in an Assistant Restaurant Manager role or similar within high-volume, premium hospitality venues (hotel experience a plus, not essential).
• Proven ability to deliver a high-level guest experience that exceeds expectations for VIP clientele and hotel guests.
• Experience assisting in the management of medium-sized restaurant teams, with a focus on developing and training staff.
• A passion for wine and beverage, with the confidence to lead tastings, pairings, and guest-facing storytelling.
• Understanding of budget management, cost control, and P&L analysis to support data-driven decision-making.
• A creative, team-first attitude and commitment to excellence in a fast-paced, design-driven environment.

Responsibilities

• Support and inspire the restaurant team to deliver an elevated food and beverage experience across service periods.
• Take direction from the Venue Manager, maintaining a proactive approach at all times
• Support and inspire the restaurant team to deliver an elevated food and beverage experience across service periods.
• Assist in overseeing and coordinating operational activities within the department, maintaining established service standards.
• Maintain staff morale and team cohesion through positive, productive leadership, and actively seek ways to develop and retain team members.
• Ensure clear and comprehensive shift handovers occur
• Maintain accurate statistical records and reporting, and control departmental expenses within set targets
• Cultivate a sales culture, implementing and tracking up-selling and on-selling strategies
• Ensure full compliance with licensing laws, RSA requirements, and health & safety standards
• Uphold QT and Parlour's grooming, presentation, and service-style standards
• Actively participate in team briefings, training sessions, and operational meetings

Skills

Guest experience

Team leadership

Budget management

Wine knowledge

Staff training

Premium hospitality

Job description

Assistant Restaurant Manager - Gowings, QT Sydney

QT Hotels & Resorts is EVT’s premium lifestyle hotel brand, with locations in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. Pioneers behind the philosophy of ‘unexpected and unrequested’, with every guest engagement presenting an opportunity to delight, and every QT property inspired by local influence with signature quirk. And our people? With personalities as diverse as each property, individuality is more than encouraged.

EVT has an endless range of roles and careers paths to explore across over 140entertainment experiences like Event Cinemas and Moonlight Cinemas, 150award winningrestaurants and bars, and 80+ hotels, including QT, Rydges,Atura,LyLo, Independent CollectionandAustralia’s most lovedyear roundalpine resort,Thredbo.Our ventures include a ~$2.3B property portfolio and hotel management, just to name a few. Onceyou’rein,there’sno limits on where your career could take you.

Key Responsibilities

We're on the hunt for an Assistant Restaurant Manager kind of leader. Someone who reads a floor before it needs reading, who can charm a room and run it at the same time.

At Gowings, service is theatre and you're second lead. You'll coach the crew, keep the pace electric, and make sure every table leaves talking about the night, not just the meal. Equal parts hospitality instinct and hustle. Detail-obsessed without losing the fun.

• Support and inspire the restaurant team to deliver an elevated food and beverage experience across service periods.
• Take direction from the Venue Manager, maintaining a proactive approach at all times
• Support and inspire the restaurant team to deliver an elevated food and beverage experience across service periods.
• Assist in overseeing and coordinating operational activities within the department, maintaining established service standards.
• Maintain staff morale and team cohesion through positive, productive leadership, and actively seek ways to develop and retain team members.
• Ensure clear and comprehensive shift handovers occur
• Maintain accurate statistical records and reporting, and control departmental expenses within set targets
• Cultivate a sales culture, implementing and tracking up-selling and on-selling strategies
• Ensure full compliance with licensing laws, RSA requirements, and health & safety standards
• Uphold QT and Parlour's grooming, presentation, and service-style standards
• Actively participate in team briefings, training sessions, and operational meetings

What You’ll Bring

• 2+ years' experience in an Assistant Restaurant Manager role or similar within high-volume, premium hospitality venues (hotel experience a plus, not essential).
• Proven ability to deliver a high-level guest experience that exceeds expectations for VIP clientele and hotel guests.
• Experience assisting in the management of medium-sized restaurant teams, with a focus on developing and training staff.
• A passion for wine and beverage, with the confidence to lead tastings, pairings, and guest-facing storytelling.
• Understanding of budget management, cost control, and P&L analysis to support data-driven decision-making.
• A creative, team-first attitude and commitment to excellence in a fast-paced, design-driven environment.

How You Work

• Daymaker ethos — no one’s too big for the small things.
• Hands-on and non-hierarchical — leads from the front.
• Resilient and solutions-focused — stays calm, moves fast.
• Growth mindset — learns, shares, and levels up others.

Perks from Day One

As part of EVT, you unlock Elevate Perks from your first day. Parity for all levels - no ivory towers.

• 50% off dining and stays across EVT hotels – QT, Rydges, Atura, LyLo and more.
• $2 movie tickets + discounts on Gold Class, Moonlight Cinema and Candy Bar.
• Seasonal perks at Thredbo.
• Rapid career growth across our hotel & entertainment network.
• Paid parental leave; community & volunteering opportunities.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds