Assistant Restaurant Manager

Dobbies Garden Centres; Lisburn; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the garden centre retail space is seeking an Assistant Restaurant Manager who will play a vital role in restaurant operations, ensuring quality food delivery, and maintaining high standards. As a key figure in the team, you will lead operations, manage stock efficiently, and uphold health and safety regulations while providing a remarkable dining experience.

Benefits

Generous annual leave entitlement

50% off in Restaurants

Access to Wagestream

Confidential support via Retail Trust

Access to Dobbies Academy for development

Qualifications

• Proven experience of restaurant management.
• Ability to identify training needs and coach team members.
• Commerical awareness and understanding of budgets.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the restaurant operation, managing kitchen and front of house.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety regulations.
• Lead team to deliver a great customer experience.

Skills

Hospitality

Leadership

Time Management

Stock Management

Customer Service

Health & Safety Compliance

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Our Assistant Restaurant Managers play an essential role in delivering an exceptional across our Restaurants – delivering tasty food, maintaining operational standards, smashing commercial targets and ensuring food hygiene, whilst assisting the Restaurant Manager.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the fast-paced restaurant operation, taking responsibility for both the kitchen and front of house operation
• Lead an engaged team, focused on delivering a great customer experience and making it work for our customer
• Ensure strict compliance with health and safety regulations at all times
• Effective stock management controls, to ensure wastage is minimised and the kitchen has everything it needs to deliver to our customers
• Support the delivery of instore events, including seasonal highlights such as Breakfast with Santa, and regular fixtures such as Afternoon Teas
• Communicate effectively with our central support teams to maintain smooth operations and feedback to improve our business
• Work as part of the overall Garden Centre Management team to deliver a safe working environment, commercially successful store and a great place to work for our colleagues
  
  

Who We Are Looking For

• You'll bring passion for hospitality with proven experience of restaurant management
• Commerical awareness and understanding of budgets, profitability from driving sales and improved ways of working
• A proven ability to manage stock controls and strict adherence to health & safety regulations
• Ability to identify training needs. You'll be effectively coaching and training all levels ensuring our teams are delivering a first-class customer experience and safe centre environment
• Adaptability. You'll act quickly and enthusiastically to changing priorities, workload and new regulations or requirements
• Positivity managing change, you'll lead the team through each session with care and motivation to deliver the best
• Can demonstrate our values at all times - we're one team, getting better everyday. We bring a smile. We live and breathe gardens. We make it work for our customers.
  
  

What We Offer

• Generous annual leave entitlement. Use your holidays when you want with limited statutory days off required
• Treat yourself with generous uncapped discount across our stores with 50% off in our Restaurants, 25% off in the Garden Centre and 10% off in our food halls
• Access to Wagestream - support your financial wellbeing, with ability to access earnings ahead of pay day, save for future and financial advice
• Access to Retail Trust - seek confidential support, access to a virtual GP, free counselling service and discounted retail rewards with our employee wellbeing platform
• Access to Dobbies Academy - continue your development with our eLearning platform and development programmes
• Thriving culture; the Dobbies team are passionate, diverse and committed to making it work for our customers
  
  

About Us

At Dobbies, we’re proud to have a history dating back to 1865. We were founded by James Dobbie and are the only garden centre retailer to have stores in every nation across the UK.

Our passion and joy for gardens and plants is what makes us special. In our stores, we showcase this through own brand and branded products, concession partners and services. We champion garden living all-year-round.

Many of our stores feature a restaurant or coffee shop, where customers can enjoy refreshments or meals in a relaxed and welcoming environment.

We offer a calendar of events and experiences that bring people and communities together, and we have a national charity partner that both our colleagues and customers raise money for.

We’re committed to being a great place to work. We’re one team and we encourage our colleagues to be the best version of themselves, every day; to share their wins and celebrate success. Together, we make it work for our customers.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Retail

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