Restaurant Manager

Haddenham Garden Centre is a family-owned business which has been established for over 45 years. Our popular restaurant “The Gardeners Retreat” offers table service and focuses on high quality homemade, locally sourced food and drink.

We are looking to recruit an experienced and commercially minded Restaurant Manager to take responsibility for both the day-to-day operation and development of the restaurant.

With over 280 covers, the restaurant requires an experienced manager who is comfortable leading a large team, effectively managing labour costs and delivering consistently high standards of food and customer service whilst adhering to all Health and Safety and Food Safety Regulations.

This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious hospitality professional who wants genuine responsibility and the opportunity to make a significant impact on the performance of the business.

The position is full time and will include working alternate weekends.

Key Responsibilities

• Full day-to-day management of the restaurant operation
• Leading, motivating and developing the restaurant team
• Take ownership of sales, labour costs, gross profit margins and the overall profitability of the restaurant. Identify trends and implement actions to improve profitability.
• Manage stock levels, wastage and operational costs
• Managing rotas and staffing levels to maximise productivity
• Ensuring high standards of quality, customer service and presentation are maintained at all times
• Drive upselling and improvement of product knowledge across the team
• Handling customer feedback, ensuring all issues are resolved effectively
• Manage recruitment, training and retention of the restaurant team
• Work to all HR, HSE, Food Safety, Environmental and Fire guidelines in line with company policy and current legislation.

Requirements for the role:

• Previous experience as a manager of a high volume restaurant operation.
• Excellent people management skills with the ability to lead by example.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen with an understanding of KPI’s and how to drive these with a real emphasis on sales, waste and margins to strengthen the Restaurants growth.
• A proven track record of delivering results and driving performance improvements across previous roles.
• The confidence to make decisions and take ownership.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Excellent knowledge of Food Safety and HACCP procedures.

Our Benefits Include:

• Competitive salary dependent on experience
• Opportunity to earn a performance related bonus after qualifying period
• Daytime hours
• Contributory pension scheme
• Staff discount after completion of probationary period
• Employee Assistance Programme
• On site car parking

If you feel you are the right candidate to lead our Restaurant team, we would love to hear from you.

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Employee assistance programme
• Employee discount
• On-site parking

Experience:

• Restaurant management: 1 year (required)
• people management : 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person