Restaurant Manager

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive wage + bonus

Leadership Development Programme

Meals + drinks on shift

Dining discounts for family & friends

Coffee discounts at Caravan Coffee Roa

Job summary

Caravan is seeking a Restaurant Manager to join our London team. You’ll support the General Manager, lead from the floor, and ensure outstanding hospitality every day.

You’ll develop confident, high-performing teams and safeguard Caravan’s welcoming culture in every shift. You will drive sales, labour, gross profit and waste targets while upholding food, drink and service standards, and you’ll oversee systems and health & safety compliance.

Qualifications

• Experienced hospitality leader focused on growing into a future General Manager.
• Confident in leading teams, managing standards, and creating guest experiences.
• Culture ambassador aligned with Caravan’s values.
• Organised, commercially aware, and able to balance shift management while inspiring teams.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Hospitality leadership

Team management

Guest experience

Training & development

Commercial awareness

Tools

Fourth

Mapal

Workvivo

Job description

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

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.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme