Assistant Restaurant Manager

Slaughters Inn; Cheltenham; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Service charge shared among team

Perkbox platform perks

Staff discounts 25% off food & bev

Staff rate £25 B&B

Confidential helpline

Free meals on duty

Internal promotions

Job summary

The Slaughters Country Inn in the Cotswolds is seeking an Assistant Restaurant Manager to lead our restaurant team and ensure exceptional guest service. You will work with the Restaurant Manager to maintain standards, train new staff, and create memorable experiences for our guests.

You will enjoy a supportive, friendly culture with a strong service charge distribution, meals on duty, staff discounts, and development opportunities across our group of hotels.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a hospitality team and maintaining service standards.
• Ability to train new staff to uphold guest care and efficiency.
• Proactive, friendly; build relationships across departments.

Responsibilities

• Lead restaurant team and ensure exceptional service to guests.
• Collaborate with Restaurant Manager to maintain standards and resolve issues.
• Train new staff to uphold service excellence and guest care.

Skills

People management

Guest service

Menu knowledge

Job description

Location

Set in the heart of one of the most picturesque Cotswold villages, The Slaughters Country Inn offers the authentic charm of a traditional village inn. With 5 AA Gold Stars for Guest Accommodation and 2 AA rosettes, The Slaughters Country Inn offers a relaxed yet professional environment to work in. The hotel may be able to offer both on or off-site staff accommodation, in order to help the newest members of the team re-locate, so they can settle into life at the hotel and local area in comfort, plus there is free parking on-site at the hotel.

SERVICE CHARGE: We pay our team service charge each month! This service charge all goes into one pot, and 100% of that service charge is then shared amongst all the team at the hotel-every penny received is paid out to the team.

Service charge can be in the region of £260 a month (close to £3,200 per year) over and above base pay, for a full time employee.

Come and join our team as anAssistant Restaurant Manager and let your passion and personality shine

Our culture is important to us, andwe encourage everyone in our teams to show thoughtfulness towards eachother and our guests.

As an Assistant Restaurant Manager, you will beworking with our Restaurant Manager to lead our restaurant team and ensure we alwaysproviding exceptional service to our guests, helping them make memories thatlast a lifetime.

Check out some of the key pointsabout the role

• We serve a lot of yummy dishes, so we askthat you get to know the menu, that way you can advise our guests, if they askfor help.
• Have the pleasure of training our new staffto be as wonderful as our current staff.
• You spend alot of your life at work, meaning often your colleagues’ become friends, and weencourage that. We want our employees to build close relationships across allteams.
• Ensuringall our guests have a memorable experience.
• We are oneteam, so we will all muck in from time to time, helping each other acrossdepartments.

Work/life, or as it should be calledlife/work balance is important to us all, so we will always try to be fair withour rotas. We just ask that you can beflexible with us, so we can be flexible with you in return.

To say thank you, we havemany perks

• Competitive pay – We are proud thateveryone who joins our group gets a competitive a rate of pay,irrespective of age, plus you get service charge and tips on top.
• Treat yourself once in a while with lotsof retail and hospitality perks through our Perkbox platform.
• Excellent discounts across our family ofhotels – you will be entitled to 25% off food & beverage in our hotelsplus we offer an amazing staff rate of £25 B&B per person across thegroup & your friends and family get special rates too.
• We understand it’s OK not to be OK, so weoffer an externally run confidential helpline for any support you requireabout anything you might need as part of our Employee AssistanceProgramme.
• We sustain you physically too, meals whenyou are on duty are free.
• To be the best version of yourself, weencourage our teams to be curious. Everyone can learn and develop -our development pathways are unique to us and are the best in thebusiness.
• We provide lots of opportunity toprogress and move up – we have made hundreds of internal promotions,including to General Manager level.
• We like to say a special thank you forevery year you are with us - our milestone awards include Champagne,afternoon tea, or dinner for you and someone special. When you reach thebig milestones, you receive extra special gifts on top like longer hotel stays,extra days off and a unique gift especially chosen for you.

About our family of hotels

We bring a family of hotelstogether under one roof, ready to welcome guests with open arms, warm heartsand experiences that are simply memorable.

Each of our hotels are unique,individual, and quirky in personality. Quality is fundamental to everything wedo, and it is the simple things that matter. We believe everyone should feelincluded, special and welcome, and that applies to our team and our guests.

We have very unique hotels invery special locations, from the award winning Gidleigh Park in Devon, the900-year-old Amberley Castle to our cool city centre Abode Manchester set in a19th century textile factory, two minutes from Piccadilly train station - tosee the whole group, take a look herewww.brownswordhotels.co.uk

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