Food & Beverage Manager

The Bath Priory - Restaurant; Bath; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A renowned restaurant in Bath is seeking a Food & Beverage Manager to lead their team and ensure exceptional service for guests. The ideal candidate will guide staff training, focus on providing memorable experiences, and recruit talented individuals to join the team. The role offers a competitive salary, tips, and various perks including discounts and development opportunities. Join a supportive environment that values flexibility and teamwork.

Benefits

Competitive pay including service charge

Retail and hospitality perks

Excellent discounts across hotels

Free meals when on duty

Employee Assistance Programme

Opportunities for progression

Milestone awards

Qualifications

• Experience in the food and beverage industry.
• Ability to lead and motivate a team.
• Strong interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the restaurant team to provide exceptional service.
• Recruit and train new staff members.
• Foster teamwork and collaboration across departments.
• Ensure guests have a memorable experience.
• Manage rotas with consideration for work-life balance.

Skills

Knowledge of menu

Recruitment skills

Training capability

Memorable guest experience

Teamwork

Job description

Location The Bath Priory (part of the Brownsword family of hotels) is located in Bath, just a short walk from the city centre, with a bus stop right outside. The hotel is a Georgian house with 33 bedrooms built in honey‑coloured Bath stone and surrounded by four acres of multi‑award‑winning gardens. We are proud to have won 5‑star level awards for over ten years and are seeking sparkling new personalities to join our family.

Service Charge We pay our team service charge each month. All goes into one pot and 100% of that service charge is shared amongst the team at the hotel – every penny received is paid out to staff. 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.

Send us a Whatsapp message with FAMILYFIRST to [phone] to find out more, chat with us and apply (or apply the normal way, whichever works best for you).

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 provide exceptional service to our guests, helping them make memories that last a lifetime.

Key points about the role

• We serve a wide range of dishes, so you should know the menu well and advise guests as needed.
• When we need new team members, you will recruit the best staff for your team.
• You will train new staff to be as wonderful as our current team.
• We encourage close relationships across all teams, so you will often become friends with colleagues.
• Ensuring all our guests have a memorable experience.
• We are one team, so we will all help each other across departments from time to time.

Work/life balance is important to us, so we will always try to be fair with rotas. We just ask that you can be flexible with us, so we can be flexible with you in return.

Bonus

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.

Perks

• Competitive pay – Each employee in our group gets a competitive rate, irrespective of age, plus service charge and tips on top.
• Retail and hospitality perks through our Perkbox platform.
• Excellent discounts across our family of hotels – 25% off food & beverage in our hotels and a £25 B&B rate per person across the group; friends and family receive special rates too.
• A confidential helpline as part of our Employee Assistance Programme.
• Free meals when on duty.
• Encouragement to be curious and to learn – unique development pathways.
• Opportunities to progress and move up; hundreds of internal promotions, including to General Manager level.
• Mile‑stone awards – Champagne, afternoon tea, or dinner for you and someone special; extra gifts for big milestones.

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 memorable experiences. Each of our hotels is unique and quirky in personality. Quality is fundamental to everything we do; we believe everyone should feel included, special and welcome.

Our hotels include award‑winning Gidleigh Park in Devon, the 900‑year‑old Amberley Castle, and the modern Abode Manchester located in a 19th‑century textile factory two minutes from Piccadilly train station.

If you are someone who likes to learn and share the wisdom, get in touch.

Send us a Whatsapp message with FAMILYFIRST to [phone] to find out more, chat with us and apply (or apply the normal way, whichever works best for you).