F&B Assistant

Leonardo Hotels UK & Ireland | Formerly Jurys Inn; Southampton; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative hospitality team as a Food & Beverage Assistant, where your vibrant personality will shine! You will be the face of the restaurant, ensuring every guest enjoys a memorable experience. With a focus on genuine hospitality, you'll prepare the dining area, engage with guests, and foster a welcoming atmosphere. This role offers a chance to grow within a dynamic company that values your individuality and contributions. Enjoy perks like special room rates, recognition rewards, and ongoing training. If you love interacting with people and creating joyful experiences, this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Benefits

Special rates on hotel rooms

Company-wide recognition scheme

Meals on duty

Talent referral scheme

Employee Awards Celebration

Company Pension Scheme

Life Assurance

Wellbeing Support

Ongoing job-related training

Qualifications

• Passionate and hospitable personality required.
• Good understanding of the menu and guest experience.

Responsibilities

• Prepare the restaurant for service with high standards.
• Ensure guests have a memorable dining experience.
• Build rapport with guests and team members.

Skills

Customer Service

Communication Skills

Teamwork

Positive Attitude

Job description

Marco Pierre White Steakhouse, located in Leonardo Hotel XXX, is looking for a Food and Beverage Assistant to bring their bright and passionate personality to the team!

Marco Pierre White is an acclaimed chef, restauranteur and TV personality. He has many restaurants across the UK and Ireland, some of which are located in our hotels! Marco Pierre White Steakhouse Bar & Grill is a traditional steakhouse where Marco himself exclusively curates the menu. It features classical dishes from our childhood favourites to modern-day delicacies, all cooked using the best locally sourced ingredients.

As a Food & Beverage Assistant, we want you to bring your passionate and hospitable personality to work with you every day. Working with the Food & Beverage team, you will be an ambassador for both the Leonardo Hotels and MPW brands, providing attentive and first-class service to ensure every guest's experience is a memorable one.

Some Of The Perks Our Colleagues Enjoy Include:

• Special rates on Leonardo Hotel rooms across the UK & Europe: get planning that city break you’ve been dreaming of!
• Company-wide recognition scheme: for being your fabulous self, you could earn vouchers to spend on a wide range of high street shops.
• Meals on duty.
• Talent referral scheme: earn yourself a bonus for recommending a friend to join us.
• We love to get together and celebrate: we regularly host Thank You Week (your hotel could have anything from ice cream trucks to pizza parties) and every year we get dressed up in our fanciest threads to host our Employee Awards Celebration.
• The important stuff: access to the Company Pension Scheme, Life Assurance and Wellbeing Support.
• Ongoing job-related training programmes with clear paths for progression.

As a Food & Beverage Assistant, You Will:

• Be yourself!
• Prepare the restaurant for service, ensuring high standards of presentation.
• Share your positive energy with guests and your team.
• Ensure that guests have a great experience in our restaurant and bar, and are leaving with a desire to come back again!
• Have a can-do attitude.
• Be confident in speaking with guests and the team – we love building a good rapport.
• Have a good understanding of both the MPW menu and wider guest experience offering in the hotel.

About Leonardo Hotels:

At Leonardo Hotels, our vision is very simple: to be the first choice for everyone who values genuine hospitality. Built on decades of hotelier know-how, we are part of the Fattal Hotels Group, which operates over 230 hotels across Europe and Israel. We look after over 50 hotels here in the UK & Ireland, and have come a long way since we opened our first hotel in Ireland back in 1993! With approximately 4,000 employees and multiple brands, we are a dynamic, innovative and fast-growing company.

As an employer, we put a big emphasis on career development and as a rule we recruit our operations team members for personality- it is all about how you interact with others and how you can demonstrate our values: Consistent, Friendly, Genuine, Positive and Willing. At Leonardo Hotels, each and every team member is individually valued and respected for who you are. All careers within our hotels offer customer interaction, a great deal of variety, and a fun and friendly working environment. We strive to make all of our hotels great places to work, and get our teams involved in activities such as summer barbecues, Christmas parties, Thank You Week and birthday celebrations!

We also offer excellent employee benefits, including huge discounts on overnight stays at our hotels as well as performance-based rewards via our Leo Points system- these range from vouchers to a well-deserved day off!