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Restaurant Manager
Adagio Aparthotels
Dubai, UAE
Full Time
Manager
Onsite
Yesterday
Food and Beverage ManagementBudget ManagementCost ControlMenu PlanningInventory ManagementStaff Training
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About the Role
Adagio Aparthotels in Dubai seeks a Restaurant Manager to oversee F&B operations, manage financial performance, and lead a team. Requires strong leadership, financial acumen, and experience in hospitality management.
Key Skills for This Role
Food and Beverage ManagementBudget ManagementCost ControlMenu PlanningInventory ManagementStaff Training
Responsibilities
- Manage and motivate F&B personnel to improve quality and creativity of services in line with brand standards
- Take part in defining hotel strategy and implement it in the F&B department
- Improve department results by increasing sales, managing points of sale, and controlling costs
- Prepare monthly forecasts and schedule resources accordingly
- Assist in preparing the departmental budget and analyze profit and loss statements
- Steer and promote all F&B points of sale
- Ensure brand reference standards are properly applied
- Prepare menus in conjunction with the Head Chef and organize purchases
- Handle guest and employee inquiries in a courteous and efficient manner
- Ensure health, hygiene, and safety regulations are complied with in line with HACCP standards
- Establish excellent relations with guests and prepare commercial action plans
- Draw up the annual budget for the department and implement corrective actions
Requirements
- Proven experience in food and beverage management
- Strong financial acumen and budget management skills
- Ability to lead, motivate, and organize a team
- Knowledge of HACCP standards and procedures
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment
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General Purpose
- Behaves and acts (as a manager) in an exemplary fashion, embodying the brand mindset.
- Conveys the hotel's image and atmosphere by providing a warm and friendly welcome, being available and frequently visible in the hotel.
- Helps employees improve their skills and provides support for career development.
- Manages, motivates and organises personnel in order to improve the quality and creativity of F&B services, in line with brand standards. Makes suggestions for improvement.
- Takes part in the definition of hotel strategy and implements it in the F&B department.
- Improves the department's results by increasing sales, improving the management of points of sale (restaurant, 24hr service etc), spend and profitability.
Financial Responsibilities
- To ensure that Food and Beverage department is managed successfully as independent profit center.
- To ensure that each place of work in the Food and Beverage department is managed by a Management Team (Assistant Restaurant Manager and Supervisor) who are totally accountable for their profitability.
- To monitor all costs and recommend measures to control them in accordance with the annual budgets.
- To establish an integrated cost management plan through product lining, minimal inventories, procurement and Delivery on Demand where possible and cost effective.
- To ensure that the Department Operational Budget is strictly adhered to and in line, and that all costs are strictly controlled.
- To monitor all cost and recommend / institute measures to control them.
- To set and control with the General Manager, Director of Finance and Cluster Director if P&C any incentive schemes for F&B employees.
- To prepare monthly forecasts and schedule resources accordingly.
- To assist in the preparation of the Departmental Budget.
- To analyze and report on a monthly basis the Profit and Loss statements.
Operational Responsibilities
- Steers and promotes all the F&B points of sale.
- Ensures that all information is duly passed on to the applicable departments.
- Organises and supervises the preparation of points of sale according to activity forecasts and product information.
- Ensures the brand's reference standards are properly applied.
- Ensures that sales materials are of good quality and ensures that pricing is in line with strategy.
- In conjunction with the Head Chef, prepares the menus, organises purchases and updates the cooking instructions.
- Plans changes in the menu, sets prices and organises the work for the day in coordination with the Chef.
- Passes on the management team's decisions.
- Knows how all the hotel's departments operate and is able to replace another Head of Department in case of absence.
- To have a full working knowledge and capability to supervise, correct and demonstrate all duties and tasks in the assigned Place of Work to the standard set.
- To implement a flexible employee base, with the right mix of employees.
- To assign responsibilities to subordinates and to check their performance daily.
Commercial/Sales Responsibilities
- Establishes excellent relations with guests.
- Prepares the commercial action plan for the department and ensures its implementation.
- Sets daily sales targets to be met by the team.
- Is familiar with all the hotel's services and informs guests about them to encourage use.
- Analyses guests' comments and implements any corrective actions as required.
- Launches and deploys marketing initiatives in the local area in order to increase revenue.
- Works in close collaboration with the sales department to ensure high standards of service and satisfaction for meetings customers.
- Is actively involved in the local area to keep up to date with specific issues and needs.
- Keeps close track of what the competition is doing.
- Uses creativity and innovation to facilitate commercial operations.
Administrative Responsibilities
- Draws up the annual budget for the department and implements any corrective actions required.
- Ensures that the management results for the department are in line with the hotel's targets.
- Guarantees the respect of procedures governing cash operations, administration and audits, in line with the brand's internal audit guidelines.
- Adapts department organisation as required and manages headcount for optimum "prime cost".
- Draws up, implements and ensures that internal checks are carried out.
- Supervises F&B purchasing and manages stocks.
- Checks inventories that have been carried out.
- Ensures that food and beverage costs comply with requirements defined by the hotel and the brand.
Executive Responsibilities
- Report directly to the General Manager.
- To respond to any changes in the Food and Beverage function as dictated by the industry, company or hotel.
Hygiene / Personal safety / Environment
- Ensures that the workplace remains clean and tidy.
- Applies and ensures application of the hotel's security regulations (in case of fire etc).
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