Restaurant Manager - Southbank

Caravan Southbank; Greater London; On-site; GBP 11,000 - 19,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free meals

Dining discount

Coffee discount

Wellbeing support

Financial education

Leadership training

Dining vouchers

Internal progression

Job summary

Caravan Southbank in London is seeking an exceptional Restaurant Manager to lead our front of house team. You will work with the General Manager to ensure health & safety standards, culture, and hospitality excellence, while inspiring and coaching your team to deliver an outstanding guest experience.

Join us as we open a new two-floor Caravan with multiple bars and plenty of room to make your mark from day one.

Qualifications

• Experience leading hospitality teams.
• Customer-focused hospitality leader with ability to inspire.
• Strong coaching and onboarding skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure food, drink, and service standards are met.
• Lead by example and motivate the floor team.
• Coach, train and develop new staff.
• Onboard new team members and set them up for success.
• Collaborate with the wider restaurant team to deliver the best guest experience.

Skills

Leadership

Team coaching

Training & development

Guest experience

Health & safety

Job description

**Restaurant Manager - Hiring now!**. . **Caravan Southbank, London**. . **Overall earnings up to 17.70, dependent on experience**. . **Full time**. This November, we're opening our tenth, and biggest, Caravan at the Southbank. And we're looking for an exceptional Restaurant Manager to help lead our front of house team. We're after someone kind, confident and genuinely passionate about what they do. Someone who knows how to lead and inspire a team, is passionate about being a hospitality leader, and gets a kick out of helping their team develop and give their guests the best experience possible. You'll be joining Caravan as we open a special new restaurant, with two floors, multiple bars and plenty of opportunity to make your mark from day one.

**The role**.

As Restaurant Manager, you'll work alongside your General Manager and the management team to make sure the day-to-day operation of the business runs brilliantly every day. That means setting the standard for health & safety, culture, hospitality and developing the team around you to make sure every guest that leaves the restaurant has the best experience possible. You'll know how to lead from the front, when to coach and when to jump in and help get things moving.

**What you'll be doing as Restaurant Manager**.

• Ensure our food, drink, and service standards are consistently delivered.
• Leading by example and helping create the kind of hospitality people want to come back for.
• Coaching, training and developing the floor team, sharing your knowledge as you go.
• Giving new team members a great start through engaging training and onboarding.
• Working closely with the wider restaurant team to give every guest the best experience possible.

**Why Caravan?**.

Since 2010, we've been serving well-travelled food, specialty coffee and drinks inspired by flavours and ideas from around the world. We're a business built around curious people. People who care about what they do, look out for each other and aren't afraid to try something new. With more openings ahead and a big focus on developing our own people, there's plenty of room to grow with us too.

**Plus, when you work at Caravan you enjoy:**.

• Free meals & drinks when on shift.
• 50% dining discount with up to 4 mates.
• 20% coffee retail discount.
• Extensive wellbeing support.
• Financial health education & support.
• Leadership training and development.
• A dining voucher when you start, on your birthday and your work anniversary, to spend in any of our restaurants.
• Real career progression - 80% of our management roles are filled internally.

**Our values**.

• All welcome - We make space for everyone at our table.
• No boundaries - Grow, develop and thrive, just a little bit each day.
• Caravan of Love - Bring the energy, and be part of the change you want to see in the world.
• Well-travelled - Be curious; learn, taste, experiment and share that knowledge with those you meet along the way.

**Sustainability**.

We're all in on both environmental and social sustainability practices. Every team member plays their part in maintaining our B-Corp certification targets.

**Diversity & Inclusion**.

Everyone's welcome at Caravan. We respect individual differences in identity, culture and experience, with our team, and with every guest.

Experience: Required
Employment: Full-time
Salary: up to $17.7 hourly

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