Description

Come and join our team as a Food & Beverage Manager and let your passion and personality shine. We're looking for an exceptional Food & Beverage Manager to lead the front-of-house across our two distinctive dining outlets: The Pantry Restaurant – relaxed, seasonal dining; The Priory Restaurant – fine dining for breakfast, afternoon tea, and celebratory dinners. You'll also oversee meetings and events operations, as well as room service, ensuring every guest experience is seamless and memorable. This is a hands-on role for someone passionate about outstanding food, fine wine, and running a dining room with confidence, warmth, and flair. Working closely with our Executive Chef and senior management team, you'll play a key role in shaping the guest journey while leading and inspiring a high-performing team.

Key Points

• We serve a lot of yummy dishes, so we ask that you get to know the menu, that way you can advise our guests, if they ask for help.
• When we need new team members, you will recruit the best staff for your team.
• Have the pleasure of training our new staff to be as wonderful as our current staff.
• You spend a lot of your life at work, meaning often your colleagues’ become friends, and we encourage that. We want our employees to build close relationships across all teams.
• Ensuring all our guests have a memorable experience.
• We are one team, so we will all muck in from time to time, helping each other across departments.

What We Offer

• Salary up to £50,000
• Approx. £2,500 in service charge & gratuities
• Management bonus scheme

The Operation: Pantry Restaurant: 40+ covers + additional 40+ seats on the Garden Terrace. All-day dining (7 days a week). Priory Restaurant: 50+ covers (3 AA Rosettes). Breakfast, Afternoon Tea everyday, and Dinner Service (Wednesday-Sunday). Located at the heart of our 33-bedroom hotel (1 Michelin Key, 5 AA Red Star).

Team: 7 full-time and 16 part-time/casual FOH staff (including you).

Why You’ll Love It Here

• Work/life balance – we will always try to be fair with our rotas.
• Work alongside a talented and well-rounded team
• Real opportunities for career growth and personal development
• A culture that values personality as much as professionalism
• Management bonus scheme
• Competitive pay plus service charge and tips
• Retail and hospitality perks through Perkbox
• Excellent discounts across our family of hotels – 25% off F&B and staff rate of £25 B&B
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Free meals on duty
• Development pathways and internal promotions
• Milestone awards including Champagne, afternoon tea, dinner, and extra gifts

Who We’re Looking For

• Experience in Michelin or 3 AA Rosette environments (preferred)
• Strong wine knowledge
• Proven ability to manage multiple outlets with a commercial mindset
• A true lead-from-the-front operator (essential)
• Confident, personable leader with a background in fine dining and luxury hospitality
• Bar and mixology knowledge (a plus)
• Someone who understands that great service is effortless, intuitive, and never stuffy

Location

The [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] (part of the [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] family of hotels) has a great location in Bath, just a short walk from the city centre, with a bus stop right outside. The hotel is stunning, a Georgian house with 33 bedrooms built in honey-coloured Bath stone and is surrounded by four acres of multi-award-winning gardens. We are proud to have won awards at 5-star level for over ten years and we are seeking sparkling new personalities to join our family.

Service Charge

We pay our team service charge each month! This service charge all goes into one pot, and 100% of that service charge is then shared amongst all the team at the hotel – every penny received is paid out to the team. Service charge can be in the region of £160 a month (close to £2000 per year) over and above base pay, for a full time employee.

How to Apply

Send us a Whatsapp message with FAMILYFIRST to [contact hidden] to find out more, chat to us and apply (or apply the normal way, whichever works best for you!)

About Our Family of Hotels

We bring a family of hotels together under one roof, ready to welcome guests with open arms, warm hearts and experiences that are simply memorable. Each of our hotels are unique, individual, and quirky in personality. Quality is fundamental to everything we do, and it is the simple things that matter. We believe everyone should feel included, special and welcome, and that applies to our team and our guests. We have very unique hotels in very special locations, from the award winning Gidleigh Park in Devon, the 900-year-old Amberley Castle to our cool city centre Abode Manchester set in a 19th century textile factory, two minutes from Piccadilly train station – to see the whole group, take a look here [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]

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