Restaurant Manager

TN United Kingdom; Padstow; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a vibrant and family-friendly restaurant in Padstow as a Restaurant Manager, where your leadership will inspire a passionate team. This role focuses on delivering exceptional customer experiences while maximizing business performance. You'll collaborate closely with the Head Chef, ensuring a seamless operation that delights guests. With a commitment to work-life balance and a supportive environment, this is an exciting opportunity to grow your career in the hospitality industry. If you have a passion for food and people, this is the perfect place to showcase your talents.

Benefits

Flexible shifts

Significant tips

Staff discounts

Free meal for two

Social events

Wellbeing support

Recommend a friend bonus

Pension scheme

Staff surprises

28 days paid holiday

Volunteering day

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a similar role is essential.
• Ability to inspire and develop a strong team.

Responsibilities

• Drive service excellence and customer satisfaction.
• Maximize profits while ensuring a safe environment.
• Work closely with the Head Chef and Senior General Manager.

Skills

Leadership

Customer Service

Commercial Awareness

Team Development

Education

Experience in Restaurant Management

Job description

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We’re looking for a charismatic Restaurant Manager to work in our popular, stunning restaurant in Padstow. Our family-friendly café with atmospheric Cornish charm provides a relaxing pause in the middle of Padstow. As Restaurant Manager, you will share our passion for the industry and have previous experience in a similar role. You’ll drive your department forward through developing your people, implementing activity, and controlling resources. You’ll be an effective leader who is approachable and honest, and you’ll improve the business using your commercial knowledge.

We see ourselves as being in the 'cheering up industry', trying to make people smile with great food, drinks, and experiences. Our goal is to delight our customers through food and drink by creating memorable experiences.

We believe in a good work/life balance, so you’ll work no more than 45 hours per week unless you want to—and we have options for flexible shifts.

What you’ll be getting up to

• Inspiring, motivating, and developing our people to build a strong and capable team.
• Putting the customer at the heart of everything by driving service excellence and standards.
• Ensuring a safe environment by doing things in the right way.
• Bing commercially minded and maximising profits while demonstrating the initiative to drive the business forward.
• Leading by example offering support and guidance through visibility and presence.
• Working closely with the Head Chef and Senior General Manager.
• Attending monthly off-site management meetings, working with the wider team to drive the company strategy.

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Grow your career with us!

We're not just passionate about food, we're passionate about developing our people too. We’ll help you reach your potential with:

• Recipe For Success: Regular performance reviews.
• Development Day: Monthly group-wide manager training days, encouraging teamwork, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and loads more.
• Food and wine tastings, supplier visits, and more to develop your knowledge.
• Support, guidance, and training from your manager.
• Opportunities to work in different parts of our business.
• Encouragement to apply for a promotion when the time is right.

We want to impress you, as much as you’ll impress our guests, so we offer a range of perks for all our staff.

• Flexible shifts. Family time and work/life balance are important to us. We’ll work with you to find the shifts that work for your lifestyle, and full-time employees can request to work a four-day week.
• Significant tips. On top of your wage, you’ll earn tips and you’ll even get tips when you’re on holiday!
• Staff discounts. You’ll get 50% off in our restaurants, 20% in our shops and online, and discounted hotel stays and cookery courses. You can also order wine at cost price.
• Free meal for two. After each full year with us, you’ll get a complimentary 3-course meal for two people in one of our restaurants.
• Social events. You’ll get the chance to meet Rick and the family at fun social events and parties.
• Wellbeing support. You’re able to access all of Hospitality Action’s Employee Assistance Programme services for free at any time, such as a 24-hour phone line and help sheets.
• Recommend a friend bonus. If you successfully recommend us a new employee, you’ll receive a bonus from us as a thank you.
• Pension scheme. To help save for your future, you’ll be automatically enrolled in our pension scheme after your first 3 months.
• Staff surprises. We like to make you smile, so there'll be little treats from us throughout the year.
• Holiday. You'll get 28 days paid holiday every year, which increases after 2 years.
• Volunteering day. After each full year with us, you’ll get 1 paid day to volunteer for a charity that’s important to you.

Our Story

Rick and Jill Stein started our family-run business back in 1975, and today we employ over 600 happy staff across restaurants, hotel rooms, cookery school, and retail. Rick and Jill are still heavily involved in the business, as are their three sons Ed, Jack, and Charlie, and they want this to be the best place you’ve ever worked.

Our Values

We are proud to be a values-led company which you will learn more about upon joining us. The values that we live and breathe here at Stein's are:

• Hospitality is from our hearts.
• Enjoy learning & improving.
• Right thing, right way.
• Bring out the best in each other.
• Show great team spirit.

Say hello

We'd love to hear from you. To apply, please email your CV to grazbakas[at]rickstein.com or click apply to submit a quick application.

If you would like any additional support or need any reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know.

Rick Stein’s Café was opened in 1994 by Rick Stein and Jill Stein. Guests can enjoy a mid-morning treat with cakes and freshly ground coffee. Our Café also offers lunch and dinner options with influences from afar including dishes such as pad Thai noodles, salt and pepper prawns, and cod curry.