Restaurant Manager

Caravan Covent Garden; Greater London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Bonuses

Leadership training

Meals on shift

Dining discounts

Coffee discounts

Wellbeing support

Birthday vouchers

Job summary

Caravan Covent Garden in London is seeking a Restaurant Manager to lead service excellence and uphold Caravan’s All Welcome hospitality. You’ll steer daily operations, ensure high guest satisfaction, and foster a strong, collaborative team culture.

As a Restaurant Manager you’ll mentor staff, optimize standards across food, drink, and safety, and partner with leadership to drive performance and growth in a bustling restaurant environment.

Qualifications

• Experienced 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.

Responsibilities

• Deliver food, drink, and service standards consistently.
• Train and develop high-performing teams with clear training 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.

Skills

Leadership

Hospitality management

Team development

Customer experience

Tools

Fourth system

Mapal

Workvivo

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 Managerto 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.