Restaurant Area Manager

Headhunters; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 200 000 - 300 000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking an experienced Restaurant Area Manager for a client in Cape Town's hospitality industry. The ideal candidate will have extensive multisite management experience in sit-down service restaurants, strong leadership abilities, and proficiency in Microsoft Excel. Responsibilities include improving restaurant operating standards, monitoring performance, and providing strategic direction to management teams. This full-time position offers a negotiable package and requires a minimum of 3 to 5 years of relevant experience.

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years of experience in multisite management.
• Strong leadership and delegation skills.
• High attention to detail and process-driven.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and improve restaurant profitability.
• Provide leadership and coaching to restaurant management teams.
• Implement corrective action plans to improve poor performance.

Skills

Multisite Management experience

Sit down service restaurant experience

Leadership ability

Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills

Strong verbal and written communication skills

Problem-solving skills

Market knowledge

Education

Tertiary qualification

Tools

Microsoft Word

Micros

Job description

Sector Hospitality / Food and Beverage / Management

Location Cape Town

Job Type full_time

Experience 3 to 5 years

Qualifications No education

Package Negotiable

Our client, in the hospitality industry and based in Cape Town, CDB; is currently looking to employ an experienced Restaurant Area Manager.

Requirements:

• Proven experience at a Multisite Management level.
• Candidate must have 'sit down service restaurant' experience.
• Tertiary qualification advantageous.
• Strong Leadership ability.
• Ability to delegate and manage down effectively.
• Intermediate Microsoft Excel and Word skills.
• High attention to detail and process driven.
• Decision-making and analytical skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Discretion and integrity.
• Problem analysis and problem-solving skills.
• Stress tolerance.
• Strong market knowledge and experience in working across various functions, businesses and regions.
• Previous knowledge of Micros advantageous.

Responsibilities, but not limited to:

• Stay tuned in with emerging trends that will affect the business.
• Demonstrate ownership and accountability by consistently improving restaurant operating standards and taking the necessary corrective action.
• Monitor poor performing restaurants. Implement and execute corrective action plans to improve poor operating or low profitability restaurants.
• Ensure standards and regulation compliance of the Ops team.
• Identify and communicate operational and financial risks and create corrective action plans.
• Monitor and improve restaurant profitability.
• Submit daily, weekly and monthly and other required reports on a timely basis.
• Provide leadership, coaching and strategic direction to restaurant management teams.

Note: If you do not receive a response within 2 weeks of applying, your application will be considered unsuccessful.