Restaurant Manager for Fine Dining Restaurant

Restaurant Manager

Fine Dining Restaurant in St Albans

THOMPSON St Albans, Fine Dining Restaurant in St Albans, Hertfordshire seek a Restaurant Manager, to join our team. You will have the following responsibilities. 

Front of House Team Training & Leadership 

Future planning of events, rotas and staffing, bi monthly 1-2-1's, writing, updating and managing SOP's as a way of life, training plans / sessions, across all areas including; up selling, service, operational SOP's, building maintenance, mise en place and cleaning schedules. 

Team Bond / Spirit 

You must be genuinely interested in and motivated by having a bond with individuals in your team, in order to really get the best out of them and manage them effectively. Encourage a drink after Saturday night service, staff socials every few months and take the team for occasional casual drinks in the pub, after work on a Sunday, at the end of the week. 

Commercially Aware 

Recognise the importance of driving down staff costs, highly focused on pushing to exceed revenue and average spend per head targets, cost reductions in areas and operational costs. 

Marketing 

Contribute with new marketing ideas, understand the importance of accurate data capture at the point of booking, email addresses for marketing, how guests heard of us, in order to help measure the success of marketing campaigns / activity. 

Essential Experience

Number one is long service in previous roles. Our team need stability and someone who will still be there when the going gets tough with a fine dining background,

We are closed Sunday night, all day Monday and Tuesday lunch. You will receive another day off a week in addition to the above.

We offer good basic, with a bonus, cash tips, TRONC Structured training, coaching and mentorig. St Albans is a wonderful city in Hertfordshire full of history and culture, loaded with bars and restaurants. We are located half a mile from the train station and a very short journey into London for your days.

Phil Thompson, Michelin star status Chef / Owner of THOMPSON St Albans, 3 AA Rosette fine dining restaurant in St Albans in Hertfordshire, open now for 6 years, with multiple local awards. We are a really close team, with structured training and someone is always on hand to help out. We have regular nights out and socials.