Food and Beverage Manager

Harri; Minster Lovell; Remote; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Service charge and tips

Perkbox platform perks

Staff hotel discounts

Employee assistance programme

Free meals on duty

Development pathways

Internal promotions

Milestone awards

Job summary

Old Swan & Minster Mill is seeking a Food & Beverage Manager to lead the restaurant team and ensure we consistently provide exceptional service, creating memories for guests. The role emphasizes staff recruitment, training, and a collaborative culture across departments.

You will be part of a team that values work-life balance, with fair rotas and opportunities for professional growth within our hotels.

Qualifications

• Experience leading restaurant teams in hospitality.
• Ability to recruit, train and develop staff.
• Strong focus on guest service and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Lead restaurant team to deliver exceptional service.
• Recruit and train new staff for your team.
• Ensure guests have memorable experiences.
• Collaborate across departments to meet business goals.

Skills

People management

Staff training

Guest experience

Recruitment

Job description

Location

Located just 15 miles from Oxford, Old Swan & Minster Mill is in the picturesque village of Minster Lovell.

Consisting of both a quintessentially country English Inn, and a modern riverside hotel.

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 £150 a month (close to £2000 per year) over and above base pay for a full time employee.

The Old Swan & Minster Mill offers a relaxed, fun yet professional environment to work in. Free parking is available on site, and we do offer discounted staff taxis for those that don't drive!

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

Our culture is important to us, and we encourage everyone in our teams to show thoughtfulness towards each other and our guests.

As a Food & Beverage Manager you will lead our restaurant team and ensure we always providing exceptional service to our guests, helping them make memories that last a lifetime.

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.

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.

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!

To say thank you, we have many perks

• 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.

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 herewww.brownswordhotels.co.uk

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