Visitor Services Supervisor - Food and Beverage
Organisation: The National Trust for Scotland
Salary: £28,000 per annum
Location: Glenfinnan
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
1. Catering operation: Lead with menu development and the preparation, cooking and presentation of a high-quality food and drink offer.
2. Ensure compliance with health and safety, food hygiene, food allergen, licensing and environmental health standards, completing all related record-keeping.
3. Accountable for cost-effective stock management, ordering, storage and wastage control.
1. Visitor experience: Offer excellent customer service and ensure all members of the catering team do the same.
2. Support property-wide targets for completion of visitor surveys to understand more about our visitors.
3. Act as one of our duty manager team, responsible for ensuring a safe and smooth visitor operation, opening/closing the visitor centre, addressing issues and emergency procedures, and providing relief cover, as required.
4. Supervise the activities of a team of permanent and seasonal Visitor Service Assistants (VSAs), achieving excellent staff performance and motivation through effective induction, training, task-setting and coaching on front and back-of-house routines.
5. Prepare catering rotas and holiday allocation to meet business needs.
6. Work closely with specialist advisory colleagues, i.e. our Trust-wide Catering Development team.
1. Finance Management: Share responsibility for achieving an F&B budget of around £400,000 a year.
2. Monitor commercial performance and adjust activities to capitalize on sales opportunities and run a cost-effective catering operation.
3. Supervise daily café till operations and perform end-of-day income reconciliation as a duty manager.
4. Assist the F&B Manager with menu costing and stock-taking.
Performance Indicators and Targets
1. Weekly, monthly and annual sales and cost of sales targets.
2. Food compliance standards and record-keeping.
3. Visitor enjoyment reviews and ratings from visitor surveys and visitor feedback.
4. Staff satisfaction from staff surveys.
Tools / Equipment / Systems
1. Access to laptop and relevant online people management, training, financial monitoring and stock ordering systems, including NTS intranet and Microsoft 365.
2. EPOS tills and chip and pin machines.
3. Fully equipped commercial catering kitchens.
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