Luxury Hotel F&B Portfolio Director

The Seabird Ocean Resort & Spa; Oceanside (CA); On-site; USD 74,000 - 97,000; Full time

Job summary

The Seabird Ocean Resort & Spa, part of Hyatt, seeks a Director of Restaurants to manage the restaurant portfolio across Piper, The Café and In-Room Dining at two luxury Oceanside properties. You will own the P&L, develop managers, and partner with the leadership team to build a premier F&B division.

Reporting to the Area Director of Food & Beverage, you will set Forbes-standard service, drive budgets, forecasts, and menu strategy, while delivering exceptional guest experiences.

Qualifications

• Progressive leadership in high-volume, quality-driven restaurants and/or luxury hotel F&B; multi-unit or multi-concept experience.
• Banquet and event operations experience earlier in your career (required).
• Strong restaurant P&L fluency and a track record of improving revenue, profit, labor productivity and cost controls.
• Hotel systems, forecasting and financial reporting discipline, and experience presenting to ownership or senior leadership.
• A record of developing and promoting managers and turning around underperforming operations.
• Luxury or lifestyle hotel and Forbes-standard experience preferred; Hyatt experience a plus, not required.
• Working knowledge of POS, reservation, scheduling and productivity systems.
• Clear concise written and verbal communication skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Lead the performance, guest experience and profitability of three restaurant operations across two luxury resorts.
• Own budgets, forecasts, labor productivity, food and beverage cost, average check, covers, beverage attachment and menu mix.
• Run the administrative side with the same discipline as the floor: Hyatt systems, monthly forecasts and month-end reporting, labor and purchasing controls.
• Present restaurant performance and plans to ownership and the executive committee with the Area Director of Food & Beverage, and act as a senior leader across both resorts.
• Set and uphold luxury service standards (Hyatt and Forbes-level) and be visible on the floor during key services.
• Develop restaurant managers and supervisors into confident business owners; build succession and address performance directly.
• Partner with the Executive Chef, Director of Bars and Director of Banquets & Events on menus, beverage, training and events.
• Execute approved marketing, promotions and programming flawlessly and bring commercial ideas forward.
• Build and execute recovery plans when results miss expectations.
• Direct and oversee development of employees.
• Hire, train, empower, coach and counsel, performance and salary reviews.
• Complete weekly payroll and wisely tip out program as needed.
• Perform daily walk-through to ensure full compliance with Department of Health regulations and Hyatt Corporate standards.

Skills

Multi-unit leadership

P&L fluency

Staff development

Forecasting

Operations excellence

People development

Education

Hotel/Hospitality degree

Tools

POS systems

Reservation systems

Scheduling software

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Job description

The Seabird Ocean Resort & Spa, part of Hyatt, seeks a Director of Restaurants to manage the restaurant portfolio across Piper, The Café and In-Room Dining at two luxury Oceanside properties. You will own the P&L, develop managers, and partner with the leadership team to build a premier F&B division.

Reporting to the Area Director of Food & Beverage, you will set Forbes-standard service, drive budgets, forecasts, and menu strategy, while delivering exceptional guest experiences.