Food and Beverage Manager

Andrew Brownsword Hotels; Torquay; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Perkbox platform access

Staff discounts – 25% off food &be

Free meals on duty

Job summary

The Imperial Torquay, part of Brownsword Hotels, is seeking a Food & Beverage Manager to lead the restaurant team and ensure consistently exceptional guest service in a 152-bedroom, four-star setting with sea views.

You will recruit, train, and develop staff; manage rosters for life/work balance; and drive memorable dining experiences across our group, with a flexible, friendly, supportive culture and opportunities to advance within the company.

Job description

Location

The Imperial Torquay is a magnificent 19th Century 152-bedroom Victorian four-star hotel, and offers breath taking sea views, plus a host of leisure facilities, making it fun and picturesque location to work in. Just a short walk from the main train station and town centre, the hotel is really accessible for our employees. Some staff car parking is available on site, as is free use of all the hotel's leisure facilities, including our gym and swimming pools.

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

Our culture is important to us, andwe encourage everyone in our teams to show thoughtfulness towards eachother and our guests.

As aFood & Beverage Manageryou will lead our restaurant team and ensure we alwaysproviding exceptional service to our guests, helping them make memories thatlast a lifetime.

Check out some of the key points about the role

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

Work/life, or as it should be calledlife/work balance is important to us all, so we will always try to be fair withour rotas. We just ask that you can beflexible 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 thateveryone 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 lotsof retail and hospitality perks through our Perkbox platform.
• Excellent discounts across our family ofhotels – you will be entitled to 25% off food & beverage in our hotelsplus we offer an amazing staff rate of £25 B&B per person across thegroup & your friends and family get special rates too.
• We understand it’s OK not to be OK, so weoffer an externally run confidential helpline for any support you requireabout anything you might need as part of our Employee AssistanceProgramme.
• We sustain you physically too, meals whenyou are on duty are free.
• To be the best version of yourself, weencourage our teams to be curious. Everyone can learn and develop -our development pathways are unique to us and are the best in thebusiness.
• We provide lots of opportunity toprogress and move up – we have made hundreds of internal promotions,including to General Manager level.
• We like to say a special thank you forevery year you are with us - our milestone awards include Champagne,afternoon tea, or dinner for you and someone special. When you reach thebig 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 heartsand experiences that are simply memorable.

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

We have very unique hotels invery special locations, from the award winning Gidleigh Park in Devon, the900-year-old Amberley Castle to our cool city centre Abode Manchester set in a19th century textile factory, two minutes from Piccadilly train station – tosee the whole group, take a look herewww.brownswordhotels.co.uk

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Compensation: To be discussed