Food And Beverage Manager

The Bath Priory; Bath; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Service charge & gratuities

Management bonus scheme

Staff discounts across Brownsword/Perk

Employee assistance programme

Free meals on duty

Job summary

The Bath Priory is seeking a Food & Beverage Manager to lead front-of-house across two distinctive dining outlets: The Pantry Restaurant and The Priory Restaurant. You will also oversee meetings, events, and room service, working closely with the Executive Chef and senior management.

We value confidence, warmth, and flair in a leader who can recruit, train, and inspire a high-performing team while delivering exceptional guest experiences in a luxury hospitality setting.

Qualifications

• Experience in Michelin or 3 AA Rosette environments.
• Strong wine knowledge.
• Proven ability to manage multiple outlets with a commercial mindset.
• Confident, personable leader with a background in fine dining and luxury hospitality.

Responsibilities

• Lead front-of-house across The Pantry Restaurant and The Priory Restaurant.
• Oversee meetings and events operations, as well as room service.
• Collaborate with Executive Chef and senior management to shape the guest journey.
• Recruit and train new staff to build a high-performing team.
• Ensure all guests have a memorable experience and maintain service excellence.

Skills

Michelin/3 Rosette

Wine knowledge

Multi-outlet management

Lead-from-front

Fine dining leadership

Bar & mixology

Guest service mindset

Job description

Come and join our team as a Food & Beverage Manager and let your passion and personality shine

We’re looking for an exceptional Food & Beverage Manager to lead the front-of-house across our two distinctive dining outlets:

• The Pantry Restaurant – relaxed, seasonal dining
• The Priory Restaurant – fine dining for breakfast, afternoon tea, and celebratory dinners

You’ll also oversee meetings and events operations, as well as room service, ensuring every guest experience is seamless and memorable.

This is a hands‑on role for someone passionate about outstanding food, fine wine, and running a dining room with confidence, warmth, and flair. Working closely with our Executive Chef and senior management team, you’ll play a key role in shaping the guest journey while leading and inspiring a high‑performing team.

Check out some of the key points about the role:

• We serve a lot of yummy dishes, so we ask that you get to know the menu, that way you can advise our guests, if they ask for help.
• When we need new team members, you will recruit the best staff for your team.
• Have the pleasure of training our new staff to be as wonderful as our current staff.
• You spend a lot of your life at work, meaning often your colleagues’ become friends, and we encourage that. We want our employees to build close relationships across all teams.
• Ensuring all our guests have a memorable experience.
• We are one team, so we will all muck in from time to time, helping each other across departments.

What We Offer

• Salary up to £50,000
• Approx. £2,500 in service charge & gratuities
• Management bonus scheme

The Operation

• Pantry Restaurant: 40+ covers + additional 40+ seats on the Garden Terrace. All-day dining (7 days a week)
• Priory Restaurant: 50+ covers (3 AA Rosettes). Breakfast, Afternoon Tea everyday, and Dinner Service (Wednesday‑Sunday)
• Located at the heart of our 33‑bedroom hotel (1 Michelin Key, 5 AA Red Star)

Team

• 7 full‑time and 16 part‑time/casual FOH staff (including you)

Why You’ll Love It Here

• Work/life, or as it should be called life/work balance is important to us all, so we will always try to be fair with our rotas. We just ask that you can be flexible with us, so we can be flexible with you in return.
• Work alongside a talented and well‑rounded team
• Real opportunities for career growth and personal development
• A culture that values personality as much as professionalism
• Our culture is important to us, and we encourage everyone in our teams to show thoughtfulness towards each other and our guests.
• Bonus: That's right- we have a management bonus scheme at our hotels- for all Heads of Department positions and above. We'll let you know all about this at the interview!
• Competitive pay – We are proud that everyone who joins our group gets a competitive a rate of pay, irrespective of age, plus you get service charge and tips on top.
• Treat yourself once in a while with lots of retail and hospitality perks through our Perkbox platform.
• Excellent discounts across our family of hotels – you will be entitled to 25% off food & beverage in our hotels plus we offer an amazing staff rate of £25 B&B per person across the group & your friends and family get special rates too.
• We understand it’s OK not to be OK, so we offer an externally run confidential helpline for any support you require about anything you might need as part of our Employee Assistance Programme.
• We sustain you physically too, meals when you are on duty are free.
• To be the best version of yourself, we encourage our teams to be curious. Everyone can learn and develop - our development pathways are unique to us and are the best in the business.
• We provide lots of opportunity to progress and move up – we have made hundreds of internal promotions, including to General Manager level.
• We like to say a special thank you for every year you are with us - our milestone awards include Champagne, afternoon tea, or dinner for you and someone special. When you reach the big milestones, you receive extra special gifts on top like longer hotel stays, extra days off and a unique gift especially chosen for you.

Who We’re Looking For

• Experience in Michelin or 3 AA Rosette environments (preferred)
• Strong wine knowledge
• Proven ability to manage multiple outlets with a commercial mindset
• A true lead-from-the-front operator (essential)
• Confident, personable leader with a background in fine dining and luxury hospitality
• Bar and mixology knowledge (a plus)
• Someone who understands that great service is effortless, intuitive, and never stuffy

Location: The Bath Priory (part of the Brownsword family of hotels) has a great location in Bath, just a short walk from the city centre, with a bus stop right outside. The hotel is stunning, a Georgian house with 33 bedrooms built in honey- coloured Bath stone and is surrounded by four acres of multi- award-winning gardens. We are proud to have won awards at 5-star level for over ten years and we are seeking sparkling new personalities to join our family.
SERVICE CHARGE-We pay our team service charge each month! This service charge all goes into one pot, and 100% of that service charge is then shared amongst all the team at the hotel-every penny received is paid out to the team.
Service charge can be in the region of £160 a month (close to £2000 per year) over and above base pay, for a full time employee.

Check out some of the key points about the role:

• We serve a lot of yummy dishes, so we ask that you get to know the menu, that way you can advise our guests, if they ask for help.
• When we need new team members, you will recruit the best staff for your team.
• Have the pleasure of training our new staff to be as wonderful as our current staff.
• You spend a lot of your life at work, meaning often your colleagues’ become friends, and we encourage that. We want our employees to build close relationships across all teams.
• Ensuring all our guests have a memorable experience.
• We are one team, so we will all muck in from time to time, helping each other across departments.

About our family of hotels

We bring a family of hotels together under one roof, ready to welcome guests with open arms, warm hearts and experiences that are simply memorable.

Each of our hotels are unique, individual, and quirky in personality. Quality is fundamental to everything we do, and it is the simple things that matter. We believe everyone should feel included, special and welcome, and that applies to our team and our guests.

We have very unique hotels in very special locations, from the award winning Gidleigh Park in Devon, the 900‑year‑old Amberley Castle to our cool city centre Abode Manchester set in a 19th century textile factory, two minutes from Piccadilly train station – to see the whole group, take a look here www.brownswordhotels.co.uk