Location: Sherborne, Dorset (on-site)
Employment type: Full time, permanent
£44,000 guaranteed, 40 hours a week and two days off together every week.
I am recruiting an Assistant General Manager for a rosette-awarded destination restaurant near Sherborne, known for seasonal cooking with West Country produce and part of a growing group of independent restaurants.
This is a newly created role. Reporting to the General Manager and working closely with the Restaurant Manager, you will lead the floor and take charge of the restaurant on your shifts. It's a close team of twelve across front and back of house, so your influence will be felt every service, and you will have training and mentoring towards a General Manager role.
The role
- Briefing the team and leading service, so every guest receives warm, polished hospitality
- Taking charge of the restaurant in the General Manager's absence
- Training, coaching and developing the team, and helping with recruitment
- Working hand in hand with the Head Chef
- Sharing responsibility for sales, labour, stock and profit
- Keeping food safety, fire safety and health and safety standards ready for inspection
You
- A positive, outgoing personality with real presence. My client values personality and charisma as highly as experience
- An experienced Assistant General Manager or senior manager, or a restaurant or assistant manager ready to step up
- Ideally, experience at Rosette standard, in a Rosette restaurant, boutique hotel or quality fresh food restaurant
- Your own transport, as the restaurant is rural with evening finishes
The package
- £32,000 basic plus £12,000 guaranteed tronc, with the basic negotiable for the right candidate
- 40 hours: Wednesday to Saturday plus Sunday lunch
- Holiday that increases by a day for every year of service, and a workplace pension
- On-site parking and meals on shift
- Recognition and long service rewards, performance incentives, life assurance, wellbeing support, retail and fitness discounts, and Cycle to Work
I handle every search personally, so you will deal with me throughout.
Assistant General Manager in Sherborne employer: Quartz Recruitment Specialists Ltd
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