Restaurant Manager
Job Summary
The Restaurant Manager is responsible for overseeing daily restaurant operations to ensure smooth performance, food quality, and high customer satisfaction. The role involves managing both kitchen and waitstaff, monitoring budget reports, and handling administrative tasks. The ideal candidate provides strategic guidance while maintaining safety standards and a positive work environment.
Responsibilities
- Manage daily restaurant operations and staff
- Ensure safety and food quality standards
- Monitor budgets, revenue, and costs
- Oversee inventory and supply management
- Handle administrative and strategic reporting
Required Skills
- 7+ years of relevant experience
- Strong leadership and mentorship skills
- Proficiency in management and payroll software
- Excellent problem-solving and communication
- Ability to work weekends and public holidays
Job Details
Job Description:
- Manage and keep up smooth restaurant operations.
- Maintaining safety and food quality standards.
- Supervise both kitchen staff and waitstaff, providing necessary feedback.
- Write daily budget reports on both revenue and costs.
- Communicate with diners and mitigate potential conflicts.
- Organize and take stock of restaurant supplies.
- Great communication, time management being proactive.
- Plans and evaluates department policies, processes, planning menus.
- Providing legal, financial and/or strategic advice during and of meetings
- Training the senior leadership team on corporate governance matters
- Keeping up to date with any regulatory or statutory changes and policies that might affect the organisation
- Ensuring that policies are up to date and are approved
- Overseeing daily operations and customer satisfaction in a dining establishment.
- Writing reports
- Collating information.
- Managing office space and facilities
- Identifying and monitoring risks to business performance
- Administering pension schemes and share issues
- Dealing with company/staff insurance policies
- Managing contractual arrangements with suppliers/customers
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in business management or computer applications or relevant qualification.
- At least 7 years’ relevant experience.
- Leadership mentality. Being able to lead your employees is essential in manager roles.
- Time management skills, problem-solving capability, decision making skills, mentorship and ability to work under pressure.
- Strong command overall management software like applicant tracking systems, payroll systems, etc.
- Excellent knowledge of labour registration.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving ability.
- Excellent ability to create a comfortable and healthy work environment for employees.
- Willing to work weekends and Public Holidays whenever required.
- Strong administrative skills and an aptitude for using IT software
- Commercial awareness
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Interpersonal skills
- Influencing skills
- The ability to take the initiative
- A flexible and practical approach to work
- Discretion and diplomacy.