Restaurant General Manager

General Manager - Beringers All-day brasserie and piano bar | London City Island, E14. Full-time. Salary plus tips and service charge. Bonus scheme. Immediate start.

Beringers is our attempt to build brunch the way it was meant to be – not a queue and a 90-minute table turn, but a long, unhurried, sociable affair that starts with coffee and has no particular obligation to end. We opened on London City Island at the start of this year, and it has gone better than we hoped. The room has found its people. Residents who come in every week. Tables that book at midday and are still there at six, having moved from brunch to a bottle of wine to the terrace for a spritz. Late nights at the bar where nobody's watching the clock. The regulars know our team by name and, increasingly, know each other.

One thing that matters more here than most places is music. It's the single biggest lever you have over how Beringers feels, and we take it seriously. The right playlist at 8am is not the right playlist at 8pm. Knowing when to lift the room, when to let it settle, when to turn it up because the bar has found its second wind – that's a craft, and we want a GM who has it. You'll also work with our resident musicians and programme the live schedule alongside our events team.

Venue:

• All-day brasserie. Doors at 7am for coffee and the Pantry, through brunch and lunch, into a full evening menu.
• Piano bar. A baby grand at the heart of the room, live performances several times a week, and a proper cocktail list.
• Terrace. Where a long lunch quietly becomes an evening.
• Events. Concert nights, uncork and unwind wine tastings, tribute evenings, festival collaborations, private hires and the 1895 club membership programme.

The role:

• Running the floor. Leading service from the pass to the door, at the standard we've set. Present in the room, known to the regulars, hands on when it counts.
• Leading the team. Recruiting, training, developing and retaining a front-of-house team that's already good and can be better.
• The commercial side. Full P&L accountability: revenue, GP, labour cost, stock and controls.
• Growing covers. Building the reservations book, the regulars, the events diary and the 1895 club.
• Working with the kitchen. A genuine partnership on menu development, execution and consistency.
• The unglamorous but essential. Food safety, health and safety, licensing, compliance, reviews and everything else that keeps a venue running properly.
• Shaping what's next. Menus, events, ideas, the evening offer.

What we're looking for:

• Proven experience as a General Manager, or a strong Assistant GM or Restaurant Manager ready to step up.
• Genuine restaurant background – full table service, food-led, quality-driven.
• Real commercial confidence. Comfortable with a P&L, labour percentages, GP and stock.
• A leader people want to work for.
• A natural host who understands that regulars are built one conversation at a time.
• Instinctive about atmosphere – music, lighting, pace, energy.
• Bar and cocktail knowledge, or the enthusiasm to get properly involved.
• Personal licence holder preferred, or willing to obtain one.
• Someone who wants to build something rather than maintain it.

What we offer:

• Salary reviewed as the site grows (including performance bonus scheme).
• Tips and service charge.
• Real autonomy. This is your site to run, not a script to follow.
• A group that's growing. Beringers Wandsworth opens this winter, and The Bull Group also runs Lockdown, Supershakes, The Observatory and The Eleventh Hour across London.
• Food and drinks on shift, plus discounts across every venue in the group.
• Involvement in menu development, supplier tastings and the events programme.
• Direct access to senior management.
• 28 days holiday.

Why this one:

Most General Manager jobs in London are about maintaining something that already exists. This one is four months old, in a growing group, with a story worth telling, a room people are already protective of, and enough left to build that your fingerprints will be all over it a year from now. If that's the job you've been waiting for, we'd like to hear from you.