Restaurant Assistant

Alfa Travel; Torquay; On-site; GBP 13,000 - 16,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the Alfa Leisureplex Group as a Restaurant Assistant at The Regina Hotel in Torquay. This role involves serving meals, ensuring a clean environment, and providing top-notch customer service. Enjoy benefits like live-in accommodation, competitive pay, and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Bi-annual tax-free dividend

Funding for training courses

Job security due to employee ownership

Competitive sick pay scheme

Discounts on holidays and hotel stays

Employee assistance programme

Length of service rewards

Free employee meals while on duty

Pension scheme contributions

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar role required.
• Knowledge of the travel, tourism, and hospitality industry.

Responsibilities

• Serve breakfast and evening meals to hotel guests.
• Maintain cleanliness of service stations and tables.
• Deliver excellent customer service.

Skills

Customer service

Teamwork

Flexibility

Calm under pressure

Job description

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Alfa Leisureplex Group has an opportunity for a Restaurant Assistant to join the team at The Regina Hotel, Torquay

Restaurant Assistant working hours:

As a Restaurant Assistant, you will work 25 - 30 hours per week, including weekends & split shifts with live-in accommodation and an hourly rate of £12.60 – Regardless of age!

Being a Restaurant Assistant:

Your main tasks as a Restaurant Assistant will be serving hotel guests breakfast, evening meal, and the occasional lunch, whilst delivering excellent customer service. You will also be required to ensure service stations and tables are kept clean and tidy.

Benefits of being an employee owner:

• Bi-annual tax-free dividend due to our employee-owned status (circa £1,500 in 2024)
• Funding for relevant training courses to aid your development
• Job Security – our employee-owned status provides better job security, as we can't be sold to another company
• Support and continuous development opportunities
• Competitive occupational sick pay scheme
• Fantastic discounts on holidays and hotel stays
• Employee assistance programme - Health Assured
• Length of service rewards
• Live In Accommodation
• Free employee meals whilst on duty
• Build your pension – we have a pension scheme in place that the Company contributes towards
• Reward and engagement programs
• Ability to learn new skills quickly
• The ability to be flexible and keep calm under pressure
• Experience in a similar role
• Knowledge of the travel, tourism and hospitality industry
• Passion for the industry

The Alfa Leisureplex Group is one of the UK’s most highly respected coach holiday and hotel companies with a consolidated turnover of over £70 million per year. We are the UK’s only employee-owned Travel Group, and our brands include Leisureplex Hotels and Alfa Travel. Our mission is to provide high-quality memorable holidays for our guests.

Leisureplex Hotels own and operate 24 hotels in the UK’s most popular seaside locations. We have a combined bed stock of over 2,000 rooms and achieve strong all-year-round occupancies due to our sister brands Alfa Travel, plus our links to other coach operators and group organisers.

You would be joining the group during an exciting period as we continue to see significant growth in the number of customers choosing to holiday with us each year. As an employee-owned business with almost 1,000 employee owners, we see our people as our most valuable asset in growing our business and continuing to provide a high-quality service to our customers.

If you feel you are friendly, positive, passionate, and have the necessary skills and experience to be successful in the Restaurant Assistant