Assistant Restaurant Manager: Lead Hospitality & Ops

Dobbies Garden Centres Ltd; Findern CP; Remote; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave

Employee discount across stores

Access to wellbeing and development: D

Dobbies Academy

Team culture and growth

Job summary

Dobbies Garden Centres Ltd is seeking an Assistant Restaurant Manager to oversee busy restaurant operations, manage kitchen and front-of-house teams, and drive menu quality and profitability. You will lead with energy, coach staff, and uphold food safety and service standards in-store.

You will partner with central teams to meet targets, organise events, and support a positive, safe, and engaging work environment for colleagues across the garden centre.

Qualifications

• You’ll bring passion for hospitality with proven experience of restaurant management.
• Commercial 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.

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

Skills

Hospitality passion

Restaurant management

Budget awareness

Stock control

Training coaching

Adaptability

Team motivation

Job description

Dobbies Garden Centres Ltd is seeking an Assistant Restaurant Manager to oversee busy restaurant operations, manage kitchen and front-of-house teams, and drive menu quality and profitability. You will lead with energy, coach staff, and uphold food safety and service standards in-store.

You will partner with central teams to meet targets, organise events, and support a positive, safe, and engaging work environment for colleagues across the garden centre.