Assistant Restaurant Manager

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Our Assistant Restaurant Managers play an essential role in delivering an exceptional experience across our Restaurants – delivering tasty food, maintaining operational standards, smashing commercial targets and ensuring food hygiene, whilst assisting the Restaurant Manager.

Responsibilities

Oversee the fast‐paced restaurant operation, taking responsibility for both the kitchen and front of house operation.

Lead an engaged team, focused on delivering a great customer experience and making it work for our customers.

Ensure strict compliance with health and safety regulations at all times.

Effective stock management controls to minimise wastage and ensure the kitchen has everything needed to deliver to our customers.

Support the delivery of in‐store events, including seasonal highlights such as Breakfast with Santa, and regular fixtures such as Afternoon Teas.

Communicate effectively with our central support teams to maintain smooth operations and provide feedback to improve our business.

Work as part of the overall Garden Centre Management team to deliver a safe working environment, a commercially successful store and a great place to work for our colleagues.

Who We Are Looking For

Passion for hospitality with proven experience of restaurant management.

Commercial awareness and understanding of budgets, profitability from driving sales and improved ways of working.

A proven ability to manage stock controls and strict adherence to health & safety regulations.

Ability to identify training needs and effectively coach and train all levels, ensuring our teams deliver a first‐class customer experience and safe centre environment.

Adaptability – act quickly and enthusiastically to changing priorities, workload and new regulations or requirements.

Positive managing change – lead the team through each session with care and motivation to deliver the best.

Demonstrates our values at all times – we\’re one team, getting better every day.

What We Offer

Generous annual leave entitlement – use your holidays when you want with limited statutory days off required.

Generous uncapped discount across our stores: 50 % off in our Restaurants, 25 % off in the Garden Centre and 10 % off in our food halls.

Access to Stream – support your financial wellbeing with the ability to access earnings ahead of payday, save for the future and receive financial advice.

Access to Retail Trust – confidential support, a virtual GP, free counselling services and discounted retail rewards through our employee wellbeing platform.

Access to Dobbies Academy – continue your development with our eLearning platform and development programmes.

Thriving culture; the Dobbies team are passionate, diverse and committed to making it work for our customers.

About UsAt Dobbies, we\’re proud to have a history dating back to 1865. We were founded by James Dobbie and are the only garden centre retailer to have stores in every nation across the UK.

Our passion and joy for gardens and plants is what makes us special. In our stores, we showcase this through our own brand, branded products, concession partners and services. We champion garden living all year round.

Many of our stores feature a restaurant or coffee shop, where customers can enjoy refreshments or meals in a relaxed and welcoming environment.

We offer a calendar of events and experiences that bring people and communities together, and we have a national charity partner that our colleagues and customers raise money for.

We\’re committed to being a great place to work. We\’re one team and we encourage our colleagues to be the best version of themselves every day; to share their wins and celebrate success. Together, we make it work for our customers.

Seniority level: Mid‐Senior

Employment type: Full‐time

Job function: Management and Manufacturing

Industry: Retail

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