Restaurant Manager

Job description / Role

EAT WELL RESTAURANT

We are looking for a seasoned and passionate Restaurant Manager for the launch of The Dubai Herbal & Treatment Centre food and beverage division.

Working with our restaurant team, you will be responsible for excellent customer service through effectively managing the restaurant operations. This will include driving sales, merchandising and stock control in order to achieve the profitability.

DHTC has been the leading clinic for complementary and alternative medicine in the UAE for the past 13 years and are now extending this vision into food and beverage aiming to raise the benchmark in healthy living.

Job Purpose:
Responsible to manage the smooth and efficient operations of the restaurant to ensure maximum customer satisfaction and profitability

Key Criteria:
- Consistently offer professional, friendly and engaging service
- Lead the day to day operation of the Food and Beverage restaurant ensuring all service standards are followed
- Produce and implement creative promotional programs within the outlet with the goal of increasing revenues
- Work closely with the Culinary team to execute the delivery of all Food & Beverage promotions and menus; creating a destination of choice
- Conduct monthly departmental meetings and daily briefings
- Ensure the Food & Beverage restaurant achieves its financial and operational targets
- Adhere to the annual budget and administer it in a fiscally responsible manner
- Monitor food, beverage, labor and operating expenses throughout the department
- Monitor all guest service standards, constantly seeking ways to improve product and service as well as increase volumes and profits
- Select, train and develop Colleagues to ensure timely recruitment and career growth
- Balance operational, administrative and Colleague needs
- Follow department policies, procedures and service standards
- Follow all safety policies
- Other duties as assigned

Remuneration
Competitive Salary + Annual benefits

Requirements

- Graduate in a relevant technical or business related discipline
- Tertiary qualification in Hotel Management
- Minimum 4 years plus of relevant experience in the catering industry with 1 to 2 years’ experience in a management role

Functional Skills:
- Specialized experience in Hospitality industry
- Good knowledge of written and spoken English. Arabic would be an advantage
- Excellent people management , communication and interpersonal skills
- Computer literate in Microsoft Window applications required
- Strong interpersonal and problem solving abilities
- Highly responsible & reliable
- Ability to work well under pressure in a fast paced environment
- Ability to work cohesively as part of a team
- Ability to focus attention on guest needs, remaining calm and courteous at all times

About the Company

As a fully-integrated medical centre, The Dubai Herbal & Treatment Centre’s range of health and wellness treatments and therapies complement each other. Our team of both allopathic and CAM (Complementary and Alternative medicine) practitioners are experts in their field, dedicated to their work and sensitive to the individual needs of each patient.

Focusing on the harmony between Conventional (Allopathic) and Complementary & Alternative Medicine, the health and wellness programmes we design for you may consist of one or a combination of conventional and CAM treatments.

Under the auspices of His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, The Dubai Herbal and Treatment Centre meets a broad spectrum of needs – from more chronic medical conditions to programmes that simply maintain good health and well-being.