Restaurant Team Leader

British Garden Centres; Newton Regis CP; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

50% meal discount

20% discount at stores

Job summary

British Garden Centres is seeking an experienced Restaurant Team Leader to join our team. You will motivate staff and deliver consistently high-quality dining experiences while ensuring food health and safety standards are met, within our friendly family-owned group.

You may hire new staff, train them and create schedules to meet the dynamic needs of the kitchen. Rate of pay is negotiable, dependent on skills and experience.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a restaurant or food service team.
• Ability to hire, train and schedule staff.
• Knowledge of health and safety standards in a food environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead restaurant team to deliver high-quality dining experiences.
• Maintain health and safety standards across all shifts.
• Hire, train and schedule staff to meet kitchen needs.

Skills

Team leadership

Customer service

Health & safety

Job description

If you would like to be a part of this. we are seeking an experienced Restaurant Team Leader to join our team; in this role you will be asked to perform a variety of managerial functions.

This starts with providing our customers with consistently high-quality dining experience. To do this, you will need to motivate our staff and demonstrate superior customer serve skills.

As Team Leader, you will also help our team to meet its standards for quality. This will involve ensuring that all food health and safety requirements are met.

Your job may require you to hire new staff, train them and create schedules that the dynamic needs of the kitchen.

British Garden Centres is the UK's largest family owned garden centre group, with 80 centres nationwide. Founded by the Stubbs family, the business has grown rapidly through significant expansion and acquisitions, evolving from its first site at Woodthorpe Garden Centre into a national brand.

The group now includes garden centres, restaurants, nurseries, and distribution centres, employing more than 3,500 colleagues across the UK. Despite its scale, British Garden Centres maintains strong family values, a community focus, and a commitment to providing a welcoming and supportive environment for both customers and employees.

No evening work, split shifts or unsociable hours, year-round business.

Security of working in a well-established expanding family business & the associated benefits

Rate of pay negotiable, dependent upon skills and experience.

Closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Day & Easter Sunday

50% meal discount at any BGC restaurant & 20% discount at any BGC store, additionally discount rates available for Leisure Park.