Restaurant Manager

Country Creatures - Head Office; Thrupp; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounts and rewards

Company Pension Scheme

Generous holiday entitlement

Personal development

Job summary

Country Creatures - Head Office is seeking a Restaurant Manager to lead a vibrant team in delivering outstanding hospitality. You will coach supervisors, drive service excellence, and ensure smooth front-of-house operations with a focus on seasonal menus and local provenance.

Ideal candidates are organised, enjoy hosting, and bring a passion for great food and guest experience. A flexible, proactive approach and strong communication are essential to thrive in this role.

Qualifications

• Knowledgeable and operationally skilled in hospitality.
• Committed to high quality service standards.
• Good people manager with coaching experience.
• Precise with attention to small details and attentive service.
• Great communicator with a sense of fun.
• Engaged with great food and hospitality.
• Ability to manage IT systems to support operations.
• Organised and efficient in running service.
• Able to manage a small rota to meet service expectations.
• Knowledgeable in wines and food & drink pairing.

Responsibilities

• Manage and coach the restaurant team, including supervisors.
• Plan and communicate rotas in advance.
• Lead by example to uphold service standards and guest experience.
• Collaborate with Bar and Kitchen to ensure smooth operations.

Skills

Knowledgeable

Operationally skilled

People manager

Attention to detail

Great communicator

Food & hospitality enthusiast

IT systems management

Organised and efficient

Rota management

Wine & food pairing

Tools

IT systems

Job description

Restaurant Manager

within Country Creatures, our teams are well-rounded hosts, who have joined us knowing our reputation for fun creativity and being quintessentially Cotswold. Paying homage to our local farmers and country provenance, our restaurant teams have their own foodie heroes and wax lyrical about our menus as they change with the seasons.

Our Restaurant Manager will have similarly admirable foodie qualities, a love for great menus, a knowledge of seasonal produce, you’ll be a great dinner party host and a creative cook in your own kitchen. You’ll understand the importance of giving good hearted, genuine and attentive service in our restaurant and be able to coach our team to ensure we have fun and grow our knowledge as confident hosts.

You’ll be managing a team of people, coaching our supervisors and ensuring sections are managed appropriately and ensuring that our restaurant hosting feels almost effortless; bringing out the best in our team. You will be ultra-organised and efficient, ensuring rotas are planned and communicated well in advance with your team; with great interpersonal skills you will be able to recover any difficult service situations should there be any. You’ll lead by example; taking ownership of the restaurant, demonstrating great service, food knowledge, attention to detail and take personal pride to ensure consistent service standards. We would expect you to learn from others and communicate well with the Bar and Kitchen as part of the management team, playing your part to ensure our guests leave happy and return soon.

For this role we would love you to be:

• Knowledgeable and operationally skilled
• Committed to high quality service standards
• Good people manager with experience of coaching others
• Precise, with good attention to small details and attentive service
• A great communicator with a sense of fun
• An engaging manager and an enthusiast for great food and hospitality
• Ability to manage IT systems to support operations
• Organised and efficient
• Able to manage a small rota to meet our service expectations
• Interested and knowledgeable in wines & food and drink pairing

Come and work with us for:

• A Competitive salary
• Our Country Creatures Service Training with artisan producers and suppliers
• Personal development
• Discounts and rewards
• Company Pension Scheme
• Our generous holiday entitlement - we value loyalty and give additional holiday to those who stay with us

Compensation: To be discussed