Restaurant Manager

Lavoro Hospitality; St Albans; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A luxury hotel management company seeks an experienced Restaurant Manager to lead operations within their prestigious hotel in St Albans. The role involves ensuring high standards of service, training the team, and overseeing restaurant performance. Requires previous management experience in fine dining and excellent knowledge of food and wines. The position offers a salary between £35,000 and £38,000 plus tips, with 28 days of holiday and the opportunity to work in a dynamic hotel environment.

Benefits

28 Days Holiday including bank holidays

Tips added to salary

Qualifications

• Must have previous fine dining experience and worked to AA standards.
• Good knowledge of food and wines.
• Able to work to deadlines and within budgets.

Responsibilities

• Focus on consistent delivery of high service standards.
• Train staff to the correct level and manage assistant managers.
• Develop the restaurant product and implement SOPs.

Skills

Experience in a restaurant management role

Fine dining experience

Knowledge of food and wines

Good communication and interpersonal skills

Ability to motivate and train staff

Job description

Our client is looking for a Restaurant Manager for their luxury hotel in Hertfordshire. The property is high profile, serving quality cuisine at 2 rosette level, to customers in a formal environment. The restaurant is set within a hotel and serves breakfast, lunch and dinner to hotel guests, corporate groups and external customers.

The Restaurant Managers focus will be the consistent delivery of high standards of service and as such a key area of responsibility will be training staff to the correct level and managing the assistant manager and supervisors to ensure that service standards remain the same when the successful candidate is off.

Restaurant Manager Role

• Have the drive to develop the restaurant product and the people around you.
• Ensure the team have a natural passion for delivering great service and entrepreneurial drive for up-selling
• Be involved in the marketing strategy and be commercially aware in promoting the restaurant.
• Ensure the team have excellent product knowledge of all menus.
• Performance management of the team through, training, coaching and support.
• Set, implement and maintain restaurant SOPs.
• You should have strong leadership qualities, be a good communicator and very ambitious in nature

Experience and Skills required

• Experience in a restaurant management role is essential
• Must have previous fine dining experience and worked to AA standards
• Good knowledge of food and wines
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to motivate and train staff
• Able to work to deadlines
• Able to work within budgets

Compensation and Working Hours

• My client is offering the successful Restaurant Manager a salary between £35,000 and £38,000 plus tips
• 5 out of 7 days.
• 28 Days Holiday including bank holidays