Assistant Restaurant Manager

We are on the hunt for a talented Assistant Restaurant Manager to join our Dobbies team and help us champion garden living. Supporting the Restaurant Manager, you will take responsibility for managing the restaurant and kitchen, ensuring the achievement of budgeted targets by consistently offering high levels of service, balanced with efficient cost control, all within company guidelines; and ensuring the operation is always compliant with all statutory requirements e.g. health & safety; food hygiene.

Our club plus members are at the heart of what we do, so exceptional customer service and driving member loyalty is our main priority. To play an essential role in delivering this we are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Assistant Restaurant Manager to join our team.,

• Overseeing the fast-paced busy restaurant operation, taking responsibility for putting our customers first and delivering results.


• Proven capability as an effective team leader as well as successful delivery of budgetary controls and management


• Sparking your team's passion for delivering the best customer experience possible by creating a brilliant customer journey.


• Ensuring compliance and health & safety regulations are carried out across the Restaurant, whilst caring for employee and customers welfare at all times


• Our restaurants deliver high volume in a compact environment and therefore require a hands-on, flexible approach to work.


• Previous experience in a retail catering role and holding a relevant food safety qualification would be an advantage.
  
  At Dobbies, we're proud to have history dating back to 1865. Founded by James Dobbie, we're the UK's largest garden centre retailer, with 3,800 colleagues and 77 stores, including six little dobbies, and a Central Support Office near Edinburgh.


Our passion and joy for gardens and plants is what makes us special. In our stores, we showcase this through own brand and branded products, concession partners and services. We have something for every season, occasion and style of garden, outside and in.

Many of our stores also feature a restaurant or coffee shop, where customers can enjoy refreshments or meals in a relaxed and welcoming environment.

At Dobbies, we champion garden living all-year-round and offer a calendar of events and experiences that bring people and communities together. We're committed to being a great place to work. We're one team and we encourage our colleagues to be the best version of themselves, every day; to share their wins and celebrate success. Together, we make it work for our customers.


• 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


• Can demonstrate our values at all times - we're one team, getting better everyday. We bring a smile. We live and breathe gardens. We make it work for our customers.