Catering Manager

Our client of one of the UK's largest and most progressive Leisure Centre operators. They are currently looking to recruit a F&B Team Leader to join one of their flagship sites, based in St Albans.

Main Objective:

To ensure that F&B services meet the requirements of the organisation and customers and that all resources are deployed in an efficient, cost effective and safe manner. Ensuring all policies, procedures are followed, monitored & recorded.

Responsibilities:

- Ensure the catering team & facilities are managed daily so that there is no more than 10 customer complaints per month and by meeting & greeting of customers within the first 30 seconds of them entering our facility.

- Ensure the team are trained, developed and monitored. While promoting food & beverage offering to our clients members/visitors by up selling & no waiting times of over 5 mins

- Responsible for operating a till within departmental procedures

- Complete rotas & costed rotas in line with your budget

- Responsible for the running of the F&B operation and all associated areas within the leisure centre, such as café, restaurant, hospitality, kitchen, stores, back-of-house, bars, and the The Quality Management System (EQMS)

- Ensure through appropriate colleagues that all equipment used within the F&B operation is maintained, stored, cleaned and up to company standards. To ensure all hire equipment is checked in & re-checked on its departure. To ensure all vending equipment is checked in, maintained & re-checked on its departure

- Where appropriate the ordering, storage, production and service of all food and beverages, vending, light equipment, laundry, disposable and cleaning materials. This should also include wastage records & china stock breakage controls. To complete & check weekly & monthly stock takes. To control cost & GP’s, every new product to be inputted & GP cost & sales sheet to achieve GP for your unit

We are looking for dynamic and engaging leaders, with a minimum of 18 months experience within hospitality operations. We are ideally looking for candidates with supervisory and team leadership experience, with the ability to manage multi use F&B operations.