Assistant Restaurant Manager

Straightline Retail Recruitment; Norwich; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Assistant Restaurant Manager to lead a new café/restaurant in Norwich. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the restaurant's identity from the ground up, focusing on high-quality, locally sourced food. With no evening shifts, you can enjoy a great work/life balance while ensuring exceptional service and standards. You'll recruit and train a dedicated team, develop menus, and implement seasonal promotions, all while making a significant impact in the community. If you have a passion for hospitality and a desire to take on more responsibility, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as Supervisor or Shift Manager in hospitality.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to train and motivate a team.

Responsibilities

• Involved in getting the restaurant ready to trade and recruiting staff.
• Manage day-to-day operations and maintain service standards.

Skills

Hospitality Management

Team Leadership

Customer Service

Menu Development

Local Sourcing

Education

Experience in Hospitality

Job description

Assistant Restaurant Manager

£26 - 29,000 + Package & Benefits

Norwich

How about a job you could make your own? Something you'd be in on right at the start and have the opportunity to take as far as you want? A job with support if you need it but the room to make decisions if you don't. Something you could look back on with real pride and a sense of achievement. Oh, and a job with no evening shifts, not one, this is a daytime venue so the work/life balance will be great too.

The Job

This site is brand new and you'll be involved in all aspects of getting the restaurant ready to trade. You'll play an active part in the recruitment of a team of kitchen and front of house staff, ensure that all the team are trained and share the vision of the business to offer an outstanding experience and have some input into menu development. When ready to open, the site is yours on a day-to-day basis and you'll set the tone with regards to service and standards, running seasonal promotions and measuring and monitoring all restaurant objectives. Your brief will be to become one of Norwich's best-loved café/restaurants, offering locally sourced and high-quality food. It's largely up to you and your team how you get there.

The Person

You'll be an accomplished Supervisor or Shift Manager with enough hospitality experience to get up and running and a desire to take on more responsibility. An advocate of both local sourcing and sustainable farming, you'll nonetheless be able to blend that with the commercial savvy required to run a successful business. You're probably already working in something with great service and high standards so those important qualities will be second nature and you'll be happy and comfortable leading a team. Most importantly you'll have a clear idea of what you could do, given an opportunity to do it.

The Company

Really well established and with the finances to prove it, this business is a household name in the Norfolk area and this project is the start of what is planned to be considerable retail expansion.