Our Kitchen Managers play an essential role in delivering an exceptional customer experience across our restaurants - delivering tasty food, ensuring food hygiene, maintaining high operational standards and smashing commercial targets.
Responsibilities
* Leading the kitchen team, ensuring strong levels of service that are efficient, within budget and compliant
* Ensuring that our customers are presented with their meals to a high standard and on time
* Maintaining a fully compliant kitchen with all statutory requirements of health & safety and food hygiene
* Sparking your team's passion for delivering the best food service and customer experience
* Creating a fun and productive environment for everyone to enjoy the day-to-day operations whilst thinking ahead to ensure all your team have a development journey with Dobbies
Who we are looking for
* Experience in food service, alongside management experience
* Commercial awareness and understanding of budgets, profitability from driving sales and improved ways of working
* Adaptability to identify training needs. You'll be effectively coaching and training all levels ensuring our teams are delivering an excellent customer experience and safe store environment
* You'll act quickly and enthusiastically to changing priorities, workload and new regulations or requirements
* Positivity managing change. You'll lead the team through each season with care and motivation to deliver the best
* Can demonstrate our values at all times - we're one team, getting better every day. We bring a smile. We live and breathe gardens. We make it work for our customers.
What we offer
* Generous annual leave entitlement. Use your holidays when you want with limited statutory days off required
* Treat yourself with generous uncapped discount across our stores with 50% off in our Restaurants, 25% off in the Garden Centre and 10% off in our food halls
* Access to Wagestream – support your financial wellbeing, with ability to access earnings ahead of pay day, save for the future and financial advice
* Access to Retail Trust – seek confidential support, access to a virtual GP, free counselling service and discounted retail rewards with our employee wellbeing platform
* Access to Dobbies Academy – continue your development with our eLearning platform and development programmes
* Thriving culture; the Dobbies team are passionate, diverse and committed to making it work for our customers
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