Restaurant: Manager

Squire's Garden Centres; Washington; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Discount

Holiday (including bank holidays)

Bonus

Pension

Attendance bonus

MAD scheme

Learning & Development

Birthday bonuses

Cycle2work scheme

Tree/RHS benefit

EAP (Employee Assistance Programme)

Free Parking

Job summary

Squire’s Garden Centres is seeking an experienced restaurant supervisor to provide management support to one of our award-winning restaurants. You will work closely with the Group Catering Manager to drive sales, ensure top customer service, and manage purchasing within the company range.

The role requires proven restaurant experience, strong organisation, and a collaborative mindset; cooking ability is a plus. Join a family-owned group with a long-standing heritage and extensive staff benefits.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a restaurant management role is essential.
• Organised, self-disciplined with a positive, collaborative attitude.
• Ability to cook is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide management support to the restaurant and work with the Group Catering Manager.
• Generate ideas to build sales and communicate them to teams.
• Ensure excellence of customer service throughout the restaurant.
• Coordinate purchasing to stay within the company product range.
• Participate in management meetings and monitor performance.

Skills

Restaurant management

Customer service

Team leadership

Budgeting

Tools

POS systems

Job description

Job Description

Posted Tuesday 28 July 2026 at 00:00

Your primary responsibility will be to provide management support to one of our award-winning restaurants.

Working closely with the Group Catering Manager to help the business to succeed.

Main duties and responsibilities:

• New ideas for building sales and profit are generated and effectively communicated to teams.
• Ensure excellence of customer service is achieved throughout the restaurant.
• Work closely and effectively with catering managers to ensure purchasing is within the company product range.
• Constructive participation in all management meetings
• Excellent standards of food and housekeeping are maintained in accordance with company guidelines.
• Liaise closely with Product Managers as part of the annual range review process
• Understand the business plan and actively participate in delivering it’s goals
• Create performance monitors - product, service and people performance- and review regularly
• Appropriately plan and utilise department resources to achieve targets

To be successful in this role, we are looking for people:

• Proven experience of working in similar role within a restaurant environment is essential
• Organised, self-disciplined with a positive, collaborative attitude.
• Ability to cook is desired.

Squire’s is a family-owned group of 17 garden centres based in Surrey, Sussex, Middlesex, and Berkshire. Since 1936 the purpose of our business has been the happiness of those who work in it.

We are committed to growing our business and to promoting the highest standards in horticulture, catering, and retail.

We want our staff to enjoy working with us in a friendly, energetic customer focused environment.

Rewards & Benefits:

We want our employees to be known for their friendliness, helpfulness, and good customer service, with their whole ethos being ‘nothing is too much trouble for our customers’. In turn we will provide an extensive benefit package, please see below.

• Employee Discount– 50% in Restaurants and 20% in Garden Centre on joining, increasing to 25% after 2 years’ service and 30% after 5 years’ service.
• Holiday (including bank holidays)– 5.6 weeks on joining increasing to 6.2 week after 2 years’ service and 6.6 weeks after 5 years’ service.
• Bonus– We reward our employees with a non-contractual bonus at Christmas, based on the profit of the company in any financial year (first year is dependent on start date)
• Pension– We are all aware of how important it is to save for our retirement. We offer a Defined Contribution Pension Plan to new employees. If you pay into the plan and meet the government criteria, the company will too, and these contributions will be invested.
• Attendance– After one years service, if you have worked for a full financial year and have 100% attendance, one day holiday (pro-rata) will be added to your holiday grant as a 'Thank you'.
• Made A Difference Scheme (M.A.D)– A reward scheme for team members who make a difference to our business through outstanding customer service, over and above normal duties or initiatives that have grown / inspired the business. There is a monthly winner. All winners select a gift to receive.
• Learning & Development– You can look forward to a wealth of learning opportunities with us that will enhance and develop you with the skills and confidence you need.
• Birthday –After 6 months service if your birthday falls on your contracted day to work, you can leave work early (holiday policy rules apply). If you have 2 years service on your birthday, you will receive a £25 Squires gift voucher (pro rata for less than 40 hours).
• Cycle2work scheme –After 1 years service, a government initiative which offers a 25% to 39% saving on new cycling equipment. This cost is deducted out of your pay over 12 or 19 months.
• Child's first day at school –After 1 year's service come in late and go home early on your child's first day of school life, so that you can be there to take them and pick them up from school on their first day.
• RHS Membership or a Tree / Shrub –After 1 years service Squire's employees can choose either one tree or shrub to plant each year up to the value of £50 retail on the anniversary of your engagement or £50 towards RHS annual membership.
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) –After 2 years service employees are eligible to join an EAP, that gives them access to a range of wellbeing resources, etc.
• Retirement–After 15 years service if you are retiring and have over 15 years service, your contracted hours will be reduced by a fifth but your pay will remain the same for your final 3 months.
• Free Parking– Available to all employees in the designated parking areas on our site.