Hotel Food & Beverage Ops Leader

T&J Ventures; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 54,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

T&J Ventures in San Antonio, TX seeks a Food & Beverage Manager to lead the hotel’s restaurant, bar, kitchen, and banquet operations. This hands-on role requires strong kitchen discipline, staff development, and a balance of back-of-house and front-of-house leadership.

The manager will oversee daily kitchen operations, ensure quality and cost controls, coordinate with Sales and hotel leadership on events, and drive guest satisfaction through service excellence and operational standards.

Responsibilities

• Oversee kitchen operations, including opening readiness, line checks, prep levels, execution, and closing standards.
• Maintain food quality, presentation, portioning, recipes, and ticket-time expectations.
• Establish and enforce prep systems, pars, labeling, rotation, storage, sanitation, and food-safety standards.
• Manage food ordering, receiving, inventory, product utilization, waste, and food-cost controls.
• Identify opportunities to cross-utilize ingredients and simplify execution without sacrificing quality or guest appeal.
• Lead restaurant and bar operations with visible floor presence during key service periods.
• Set and maintain standards for hospitality, speed of service, cleanliness, product knowledge, suggestive selling, and guest engagement.
• Train, coach, schedule, and hold front-of-house team members accountable for performance and service standards.
• Respond to guest concerns promptly and use feedback to improve procedures, training, and the overall experience.
• Maintain responsible alcohol-service practices and applicable hotel, brand, and regulatory standards.
• Oversee food and beverage execution for four hotel meeting spaces totaling approximately 3,100 square feet.
• Partner closely with Sales and hotel leadership to review BEOs, staffing needs, setup requirements, timing, menus, and special requests.
• Ensure banquet events are properly prepared, staffed, set, executed, and closed out according to the BEO and hotel standards.
• Balance banquet demand with restaurant, bar, and kitchen operations to ensure appropriate staffing and production planning.
• Manage food cost, beverage cost, labor, overtime, purchasing, inventory, waste, and other controllable expenses.
• Build schedules based on forecasted hotel occupancy, restaurant demand, banquet business, and business levels.
• Review departmental performance and identify specific actions to improve revenue, average check, profitability, productivity, and cost control.
• Complete inventories, ordering, invoices, payroll-related responsibilities, and required operational reporting accurately and on time.
• Protect hotel assets and ensure appropriate cash, purchasing, receiving, and inventory controls.

Job description

T&J Ventures in San Antonio, TX seeks a Food & Beverage Manager to lead the hotel’s restaurant, bar, kitchen, and banquet operations. This hands-on role requires strong kitchen discipline, staff development, and a balance of back-of-house and front-of-house leadership.

The manager will oversee daily kitchen operations, ensure quality and cost controls, coordinate with Sales and hotel leadership on events, and drive guest satisfaction through service excellence and operational standards.