Restaurant Manager

Caravan Restaurants; Greater London; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive wage

Career progression

Meals on shift

Dining discounts

Coffee discounts

Financial wellbeing support

Birthday vouchers

Job summary

Caravan Restaurants in London is seeking a Restaurant Manager to lead service on the floor, support the General Manager, and ensure every guest experiences outstanding hospitality.

You will train teams, manage standards, drive sales and costs, and maintain health and safety. This role rewards with a competitive wage, bonus potential, and career development.

Qualifications

• Ambitious hospitality leader with an eye to growing into a future General Manager.
• Confident in leading teams, managing standards, and delivering guest experiences.
• Culture ambassador: positive, approachable, and aligned with Caravan values.
• Organised, commercially aware, able to balance shift management with team motivation.

Responsibilities

• Ensure our food, drink, and service standards are consistently delivered.
• Train, support and develop confident, high-performing teams with onboarding, reviews and development plans.
• Drive sales, labour, GP, and wastage targets while protecting Caravan culture.
• Manage systems including Fourth, Mapal and Workvivo.
• Maintain property standards, health & safety, and compliance.
• Contribute to management meetings, audits, and action plans.

Job description

Restaurant Manager

Location: London (first 3 digits of postcode)

Up to £18.60 per hour, dependent on experience.

The Role

We're looking for a Restaurant Manager to join our team at Caravan.

At Caravan, our leaders set the tone. As a Restaurant Manager, you'll support your General Manager to deliver outstanding results across people, product, place, performance and profit. You'll lead from the floor: keeping every service flowing smoothly, building confident and happy teams and making sure our 'All Welcome' hospitality is felt by every guest, every day.

What you'll do:

As Restaurant Manager you are responsible for delivering exceptional hospitality experiences to our guests and team. To make that happen you'll:

• Ensure our food, drink, and service standards are consistently delivered
• Train, support and develop confident, high-performing teams: making sure new hires feel welcome and everyone has clear training, reviews and development plans
• Drive sales, labour, GP, and wastage targets while protecting the Caravan culture
• Manage systems including Fourth, Mapal and Workvivo
• Maintain property standards, health & safety, and compliance
• Contribute to management meetings, audits, and action plans

About You:

We hire for mindset, not just skill. To thrive as a Restaurant Manager, you should be:

• An experienced and ambitious hospitality leader focused on growing into a future General Manager
• Confident leading teams, managing standards, and creating great guest experiences
• A culture ambassador: positive, approachable, and committed to Caravan's values
• Organised, commercially aware, and able to balance shift management while inspiring teams and bringing the fun!

What We Offer

• Competitive wage + bonus
• Career progression supported by leadership training and development, including our Leadership Development Programme, Train the Trainer, and Hospitality Programme.
• Meals + drinks on shift
• Dining discounts for family & friends
• Coffee discounts at Caravan Coffee Roasters
• Access to financial health, wellbeing, and mentoring support
• Birthday & anniversary vouchers

About us

At Caravan, we believe hospitality is about more than just great food and drink, it's about people. Since 2010, we have been building award-winning restaurants and a specialty coffee roastery while investing in sustainability, diversity, inclusion, and community. We're also proudly B Corp Certified, which means we're committed to people and planet as much as we care about delivering genuine hospitality.

Caravan is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and experiences.