Breakfast Manager

Aethos; Greater London; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing app access

Financial wellbeing support

Up to 33 days holiday

Learning and development programmes

Overnight Guest Experience for you and

Job summary

Aethos London Shoreditch is seeking a Breakfast Manager to own the service end-to-end, leading a morning team with warmth, pace and precision. You’ll collaborate closely with the kitchen to ensure timely, compliant breakfast service and manage peak periods with calm leadership.

The role suits a morning-focused leader who thrives in a bustling, high-volume restaurant environment and is passionate about guest experience, safety, and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Experience managing a breakfast service in a hotel or busy restaurant.
• Able to lead a team with warmth, pace and precision.
• Strong hosting skills and ability to read a room.
• Comfortable with cost of sale and labour in a high-volume setting.
• Eligible to work in the United Kingdom.

Responsibilities

• Lead breakfast service daily from the floor, from set-up through to a clean handover into day service.
• Run pre-shift briefings and manage the flow at peak, seating, timings and table turns.
• Work hand in hand with the kitchen on timings, standards, dietaries and allergens, including breakfast for In-Room Dining.
• Recruit, train and develop the breakfast team, and build rotas that match the team to the covers.
• Own breakfast stock, waste and cost of sale, and drive the barista and à la carte offer.
• Keep us right on food safety, HACCP, allergens and health and safety.

Skills

Management experience

Morning leadership

Guest service

Job description

ABOUT AETHOS LONDON SHOREDITCH

Aethos London Shoreditch is a lifestyle hotel in the heart of East London. The hotel blends Shoreditch’s creative energy with Aethos’s ethos of simple luxury, offering elevated comfort within a relaxed, social environment where no two days are the same.

We have exciting opportunities within our team and offer genuine growth and development in a dynamic hospitality environment. If you are passionate about hospitality and want to work with an award-winning hotel, we would love to hear from you.

We are committed to building an inclusive workplace and celebrating diversity across all teams. Please let us know if you have any specific requirements during the interview process so we can support you.

BENEFITS OF JOINING OUR TEAM

• Access to Wellable – a physical wellbeing app including companywide challenges.
• Financial wellbeing support, including access to Stream.
• Up to 33 days holiday a year (increasing with length of service).
• Exciting learning and development programmes to help progress your career, including apprenticeships and career mapping.
• An amazing overnight Guest Experience here at Aethos London Shoreditch for you and a guest.
• Wellness benefits and initiatives
• Mental Health First Aiders within the team to offer tailored support.
• Season Ticket Loan, Cycle to Work and discounted Gym memberships.
• Annual festive and summer social events, charity fundraising days and committees to join, including paid volunteering days.

THE ROLE

Breakfast is the one meal almost every guest in our 164 bedrooms will experience, and the first impression we make each day. As Breakfast Manager you own it end to end leading the team through our busiest, most time-pressured service with warmth, pace and precision.

This is a hands on floor leadership role for someone who loves mornings, knows that a great breakfast is equal parts hospitality and operational discipline, and wants the ownership of running a service as their own. You will lead and develop a breakfast team, work shoulder to shoulder with the kitchen, and make sure that whether a guest has ten minutes before a meeting or two hours with the papers, they leave feeling looked after.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead breakfast service daily from the floor, from set-up through to a clean handover into day service.
• Run pre-shift briefings and manage the flow at peak, seating, timings and table turns , so the room never feels rushed.
• Work hand in hand with the kitchen on timings, standards, dietaries and allergens, including breakfast for In-Room Dining.
• Recruit, train and develop the breakfast team, and build rotas that match the team to the covers.
• Own breakfast stock, waste and cost of sale, and drive the barista and à la carte offer.
• Keep us right on food safety, HACCP, allergens and health and safety.

ABOUT YOU

• Management experience in a quality hotel restaurant or a busy, high-volume restaurant.
• A real morning person who thrives on early starts and a fast, finite service window.
• A natural host warm, present, and able to read a room and anticipate.
• A leader who coaches on the floor and keeps the team calm when it is full.
• Commercially aware and comfortable with covers, cost of sale and labour

All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the United Kingdom. Documented evidence of eligibility will be required.