Restaurant Manager

Dobbies Garden Centres Ltd.; Hungerford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading garden centre retailer in the UK seeks a Restaurant Manager to ensure exceptional customer experiences through effective kitchen and front of house operations. The ideal candidate will have proven restaurant management experience, a strong commercial awareness, and the ability to lead a team passionately. This role offers generous leave, staff discounts, and a commitment to employee wellbeing and development.

Benefits

Generous annual leave entitlement

50% off in Restaurants

Access to financial wellbeing support

Discounted retail rewards

Qualifications

• Proven experience in restaurant management.
• Understanding of budgets and profitability.
• Knowledge of health & safety regulations.

Responsibilities

• Oversee kitchen and front of house operations.
• Lead and engage a team to enhance customer experience.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety regulations.

Skills

Passion for hospitality

Commercial awareness

Ability to manage stock controls

Training and coaching skills

Adaptability

Positivity

Job description

Our Restaurant Managers play an essential role in delivering an exceptional customer experience across our Restaurants - delivering tasty food, maintaining high operational standards and smashing commercial targets.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the fast-paced restaurant operation, taking responsibility for both the kitchen and front of house operation
• Lead an engaged team, focused on delivering a great customer experience and making it work for our customer
• Ensure strict sule compliance with health and safety regulations at all times
• Effective stock management controls, to ensure wastage is minimised and the kitchen has everything it needs to deliver to our customers
• Support the delivery of in‑store events, including seasonal highlights such as Breakfast with Santa, and regular fixtures such as Afternoon Teas
• Communicate effectively with our central support teams to maintain smooth operations and feedback to improve our business
• Work as part of the overall Garden Centre Management team to deliver a safe working environment, commercially successful store and a great place to work for our colleagues

Qualifications

• You bring a passion for hospitality with proven experience of restaurant management
• Commercial awareness and understanding of budgets, profitability from driving sales and improved ways of working
• A proven ability to manage stock controls and strict adherence to health & safety regulations
• Ability to identify training needs and to coach and train all levels, ensuring our teams deliver a first‑class customer experience and a safe centre environment
• Adaptability – act quickly and enthusiastically to changing priorities, workload and new regulations or requirements
• Positivity – manage change, lead the team through each season with care and motivation to deliver the best
• Demonstrate our values at all times – we are one team, getting better every day, we bring a smile, we live and breathe gardens, and we make it work for our customers

About Dobbies

At Dobbies, we’re proud to have a history dating back to 1865. We were founded by James Dobbie and are the only garden centre retailer to have stores in every nation across the UK. Our passion and joy for gardens and plants is what makes us special. In our stores, we showcase this through our own brand and branded products, concession partners and services. We champion garden living all‑year‑round. Many of our stores feature a restaurant or coffee shop, where customers can enjoy refreshments or meals in a relaxed and welcoming environment. We offer a calendar of events and experiences that bring people and communities together, and we have a national charity partner that both our colleagues and customers raise money for. We’re committed to being a great place to work. We’re one team and we encourage our colleagues to be the best version of themselves, every day; to shareGrp... we celebrate success. Together, we make it work for our customers.

Benefits

• Generous annual leave entitlement. Use your holidays when you want with limited statutory days off required
• Access to generous uncapped discount across our stores – 50% off in our Restaurants, 25% off in the Garden Centre and 10% off in our food halls
• Access Avengers to Stream – support your financial wellbeing, with ability to access earnings ahead of pay day, save for the future and financial advice
• Access to Retail Trust – seek confidential support, access to a virtual GP, free counselling service and discounted retail rewards with our employee wellbeing platform
• Access to Dobbies Academy – continue your development with our eLearning platform and development programmes
• Thriving culture – the Dobbies team are passionate, diverse and committed to making it work for our customers