Head Food And Beverage

Z Tech; Dadri; On-site; INR 7,000,000 - 12,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity-linked incentives

Performance bonus

Competitive fixed pay

Job summary

Z-Tech (India) Limited is seeking a Head F&B to build and lead the F&B business across Zyng Parks. This hands-on role covers concept development, opening outlets, menu costing, SOPs, partner deals and team hiring, from blank page to scale.

You will own the F&B strategy, P&L, partnerships, revenue per visitor and outlet productivity, ensuring quality, hygiene and sustainable practices across parks. 10+ years in F&B and a proven track record are essential; equity-linked incentives are offered.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in F&B, hospitality, or related consumer business.
• Proven experience building or scaling F&B brands or concepts.
• Strong understanding of F&B P&L, unit economics and partnerships.
• Experience launching outlets and negotiating supplier deals.

Responsibilities

• Own F&B strategy, P&L, revenue and profitability across parks.
• Conceptualise and launch in-house F&B brands and formats.
• Build partnerships with national/regional brands, QSRs and cloud kitchens.
• Identify opportunities based on trends, park footfall and local demand.
• Recruit and lead the founding F&B team and SOPs across locations.
• Provide vendor onboarding and on-ground execution during openings.

Skills

F&B leadership

P&L management

Brand building

Partnership development

Menu costing

Operations leadership

Job description

About Z-Tech and Zyng Parks

Z-Tech (India) Limited is a listed company that builds and operates sustainable, art-based parks under the Zyng Parks brand. Our parks welcomed 20 lakh visitors last year across 8 locations, with 75 lakh visitors planned next year across 25 locations. F&B is a core part of the visitor experience and one of our largest growth levers.

About the Role

We are looking for an entrepreneurial Head F&B to build and lead the F&B business across our Creative Parks. The role will focus on developing Z-Tech’s own F&B brands, creating differentiated food concepts and building strategic partnerships with leading F&B operators and brands.

This is a hands-on builder role. You will set the F&B strategy and also do the work yourself: open the first outlets, cost the first menus, write the first SOPs, negotiate the first partner deals and hire the team around you. It suits someone who has run both a kitchen floor and a P&L, and who is energised by building from a blank page.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the F&B strategy, P&L, revenue and profitability across the park network.
• Conceptualise, develop and launch in-house F&B brands and formats suited to different park audiences.
• Build and manage partnerships with national/regional F&B brands, QSRs, cafs, cloud kitchens and food entrepreneurs.
• Identify new F&B opportunities based on consumer trends, park footfall and local market demand.
• Develop the complete F&B ecosystem covering concept, menu, pricing, sourcing, operations, quality and customer experience.
• Personally lead the launch of the first in-house concepts: menu engineering, recipe costing, kitchen layout, vendor onboarding and on-ground execution through opening weekends.
• Drive revenue per visitor, repeat consumption and outlet productivity.
• Lead vendor/partner selection, commercial negotiations, revenue-share models and partnership agreements.
• Establish SOPs and operating standards to ensure consistent quality, hygiene and service across parks.
• Ensure full FSSAI licensing and food-safety compliance across all outlets, including partner-operated ones.
• Design F&B formats that reflect the parks' sustainability and art-led identity, including low-waste packaging and local sourcing.
• Work closely with the Park Operations, Marketing, Revenue and Business teams to integrate F&B with events and park experiences.
• Identify opportunities for new formats, seasonal concepts, kiosks, carts, pop-ups and experiential F&B.
• Recruit the founding hires yourself, then build and lead a strong F&B team and operating structure as the business scales.

What Success Looks Like in the First 12 to 18 Months

• Launch in-house F&B concepts across all parks.
• Grow F&B spend per visitor and F&B attach rate of visitors.
• Sign brand partnerships on revenue-share terms that meet target margins.
• Hire and embed the core F&B team, with SOPs live in every park.

Ideal Candidate

• 10+ years of experience in F&B, QSR, restaurants, hospitality, retail or consumer businesses.
• Proven experience in building/scaling F&B brands or concepts, preferably across multiple locations.
• Strong understanding of F&B P&L, unit economics, partnerships and commercial negotiations.
• Experience working with both owned brands and franchise/brand partnerships.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a strong understanding of consumer behaviour, food trends and experience-led F&B.
• Strong commercial, operational and people leadership skills.
• Ability to build a business from concept to scale in a fast-growing environment.
• Hands-on operator who has personally opened and run outlets, and is comfortable on the floor during peak weekends and holidays.
• Zero-to-one experience: has built at least one F&B brand, format or business line from scratch to a profitable, multi-outlet operation.
• Motivated by long-term value creation and comfortable with a meaningful equity-linked component in total compensation.

Compensation & Benefits

We want the person who builds this business to share in the value it creates. The package combines market-competitive fixed pay, an annual bonus tied to F&B revenue and profit, and a meaningful long-term, equity-linked incentive.

• Fixed compensation: competitive and commensurate with experience, benchmarked to senior F&B leadership roles.
• Annual performance bonus: linked to F&B revenue and profitability (EBITDA) targets for the business you own, agreed at the start of each year.
• Long-term incentive plan (LTIP): eligibility for equity-linked awards in Z-Tech (India) Limited, a listed company, through Stock Appreciation Rights (SARs) and/or Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). The mix and quantum will be agreed at offer stage.
• Aligned upside: the value of these awards is linked to Z-Tech's share price, so your reward grows as the F&B business and the company grow.
• Benefits: Other benefits as per company policy.

All equity-linked awards are subject to the terms of the company's employee share-based benefit scheme, applicable SEBI regulations and required shareholder approvals.