Restaurant Area Manager

Our client, in the hospitality industry and based in Cape Town, CDB; is currently looking to employ an experienced Restaurant Area Manager.

Requirements:

• Proven experience at a Multisite Management level.
• Candidate must have 'sit down service restaurant' experience.
• Tertiary qualification advantageous.
• Strong Leadership ability.
• Ability to delegate and manage down effectively.
• Intermediate Microsoft Excel and Word skills.
• High attention to detail and process driven.
• Decision-making and analytical skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Discretion and integrity.
• Problem analysis and problem-solving skills.
• Stress tolerance.
• Strong market knowledge and experience in working across various functions, businesses and regions.
• Previous knowledge of Micros advantageous.

Responsibilities, but not limited to:

• Stay tuned in with emerging trends that will affect the business.
• Demonstrate ownership and accountability by consistently improving restaurant operating standards and taking the necessary corrective action.
• Monitor poor performing restaurants. Implement and execute corrective action plans to improve poor operating or low profitability restaurants.
• Ensure standards and regulation compliance of the Ops team.
• Identify and communicate operational and financial risks and create corrective action plans.
• Monitor and improve restaurant profitability.
• Submit daily, weekly and monthly and other required reports on a timely basis.
• Provide leadership, coaching and strategic direction to restaurant management teams.