Restaurant Area Manager - Cape Town

HotelJobs; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

HotelJobs invites applications for an Area Manager role overseeing multiple high-end restaurants in the Cape Town area. You will drive day-to-day operations, ensure standard procedures, implement corrective actions, and monitor financial performance against budgets.

Applicants should have 3–8+ years of senior restaurant management experience, a Grade 12, and ideally a hospitality qualification. Strong communication, problem-solving, and leadership are essential, along with familiarity with POS

Qualifications

• Grade 12 is required.
• A formal hospitality qualification will be an advantage.
• Significant prior management (3-8+ years) in sit-down restaurants.
• POS systems, inventory software, basic financial reporting.
• Strong communication, organization, problem-solving, detail-oriented, calm under pressure, entrepreneurial mindset.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the smooth day-to-day running of the restaurants in your assigned area.
• Ensure execution of correct operational procedures at all restaurants.
• Stay tuned in with emerging trends that will affect the business.
• Demonstrate ownership and accountability by consistently improving restaurant operating standards and taking corrective action.
• Monitor poorly performing restaurants and implement corrective action plans to improve profitability.
• Perform routine inspections to measure compliance with operating standards and liaise with internal audit teams.
• Ensure strict compliance with health and safety regulations and local laws.
• Identify and communicate operational and financial risks and create corrective action plans.
• Monitor adherence to financial policies, processes and budgets and improve restaurant profitability.
• Submit daily, weekly and monthly reports; provide leadership and strategic direction to restaurant management teams.
• Manage labor efficiently to meet service standards and costs; maintain staff engagement and morale.
• Provide training and succession planning guidance.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Problem-solving

Organizational skills

Detail-oriented

Entrepreneurial mindset

Education

Hospitality qualification

Tools

POS systems

Inventory software

Financial reporting

Job description

High-end Restaurant Group with Head Offices based in Woodstock; Cape Town is looking for an Area Manager.

Duties

• Operational: Oversee the smooth day to day running of the restaurants in your assigned area
• Ensure execution of correct operational procedures at all restaurants
• 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

Standards & Regulation Compliance

• Perform routine inspections of the restaurants in order to measure compliance with operation standards.
• Liaise regularly with the internal audit teams, to ensure restaurants are consistently achieving good audit scores, and take corrective action when audit results decline.
• Ensure strict compliance with all occupational health and safety regulations and any other applicable local legislation at the restaurant level

Reporting

• Identify and communicate operational and financial risks and create corrective action plans
• Monitor and ensure adherence of the restaurants to stated financial policies, processes and budgets, which can vary from time to time
• Monitor and improve restaurant profitability
• Monitoring of the restaurant P&L’s and provide guidance and actively support GM’s in achieving budgeted results.

Leadership

• Submit daily, weekly and monthly & other required reports on a timely basis
• Provide leadership, coaching & strategic direction to restaurant management teams
• Manage; monitor & assist employee relations in line with company policies & procedures
• Ensure store labour is managed efficiently to meet service standards & cost
• Ensure Restaurant employees and management are engaged & that morale is high
• Ensure training & retraining of applicable employees in line with succession management & planning guidelines

Monthly Tasks

The following tasks need to be completed for each of your restaurants on a monthly basis.

• Safe Audit (including Petty cash)
• Maintenance walk through
• Waste analysis
• Variance analysis
• Manage the P&L projections and expenditure according to the company’s financial
• Conduct a weekly GM meeting, to discuss results, opportunities and challenges and unpack results.

Store Visits

Required to work any shift that meets the need of the restaurant, should the restaurant trade be busier at night you will be required to spend time in that restaurant at night.

You will need to visit each of your restaurants each month, preferably planning your visits to cover different trading times.

Performs additional responsibilities, as per operational needs and Management request.

Requirements

• Grade 12
• A formal hospitality qualification will be an advantage
• Significant prior management (3-8+ years) in sit-down restaurants
• POS systems, inventory software, basic financial reporting.
• Strong communication, organization, problem-solving, detail-oriented, calm under pressure, entrepreneurial mindset.