Restaurant Manager

Country Creatures - Head Office; Whiteshill; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Service training with artisan partners

Personal development

Discounts and rewards

Company Pension Scheme

Generous holiday entitlement

Job summary

Country Creatures is seeking a Restaurant Manager to lead a team of hosts, coaches and supervisors in delivering memorable hospitality at our Cotswold‑inspired venue. You will plan rotas, ensure smooth service and maintain excellent food and wine knowledge.

You will manage operations with organisation and care, communicate across Bar and Kitchen, and take pride in delivering consistent, engaging guest experiences that keep guests returning.

Qualifications

• 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

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of people, coaching supervisors and ensuring sections are managed effectively.
• Plan rotas in advance and communicate them clearly to the team.
• Lead by example with great service, food knowledge, attention to detail and pride in consistent standards.
• Coordinate with Bar and Kitchen as part of the management team to ensure guest satisfaction.
• Recover during difficult service situations with composure and care.

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