Restaurant / Cafe Manager

Restaurant/Cafe Manager

St Albans

Salary: £33,000 p.a. + bonus

Benefits includePrivate Medical, Life Insurance, Pension, Dental, Critical illness cover, Income protection due to sickness, Food Allowance and 50% off their products.

Opening hours of site: Monday - Sunday - 11am - 10pm

Shifts: 45 hour week, mainly mornings as 2pm is their busy time. Will include 1-2 evenings per week including Thursday and 1-2 weekend shifts per month.

Experienced Manager needed for this £30K per week turnover healthy eating quick-service restaurant in St Albans. Our client is a leading UK and Europe-based company renowned for healthy eating. You will be managing a team of 12 and be responsible for the smooth running of the service. You will play a key role in maintaining the venues reputation and driving its success.

Duties:

• Building a robust team environment and shop success through proactive succession planning, development and recruitment, ensuring consistency for key roles.
• Ensuring every member of the shop team have individual development plans; ensuring these plans are documented and followed through (either personally or via the Kitchen/Service Manager).
• Constantly observing the shop from a customer perspective, challenging the management team to do the same.
• Ensuring that all Health & Safety and Food Safety practices adhere to the current legislation and standards.
• Ensure EHO 5 stars are achieved.
• Having a strategic sales growth plan in place (utilising marketing initiatives where appropriate) to drive business.
• Fully understanding of your annual sales profile; plan and forecast to maximise sales opportunities.
• Forecasting labour management intelligently to drive sales.

Requirements:

• 2 years+ general manager [or similar] experience.
• Experience in Quick Service Restaurant [QSR] preferred.
• Managed and developed a team of 10+ team members.
• Experience in Food Safety.
• Ability to complete rotas according to budgets and to manage. labour efficiently whilst maintaining high operational standards.
• Ability to understand a P&L and stock management process, understanding waste and how to manage it.
• Passionate about good, healthy food
• Energy to thrive in a fast-paced environment.