Assistant Restaurant Manager

The Assistant Restaurant Manager is the key management position supporting our Restaurant Manager and restaurant service staff in running all of Front of House.  The Assistant Restaurant Manager is responsible for departmental profitability, management of guest dining areas & service staff, menu development, restaurant serving periods, scheduling, payroll and private catered events.

The Assistant Restaurant Manager supervises all front of house service operations and the restaurant service team to ensure all guests have a fantastic dining experience.  Our Assistant Restaurant Manager also oversees restaurant supervisors that supervise service staff.  The Restaurant Manager works alongside the Chef & Bar Manager to best serve our guests and reports to the Restaurant Manager and Assistant GM.

The Assistant Restaurant Manager works closely with the Restaurant Manager, Assistant General Manager & General Manager in coordinating and executing Lodge operations and supporting all departments at the Lodge as needed.  The Assistant Restaurant Manager is also highly involved in supporting our youth employment program.

The restaurant provides full breakfast, sit down and to go lunches and dinner in our main restaurant, tavern and other dining spaces.  The Lodge prides itself in serving fresh, health conscious & creative ‘California Lodge Cuisine’ that far exceeds guest expectations given our remote setting.  Most of our in-house guests eat with us in our relaxed mountain environment each night alongside locals & associates.  To learn more about our restaurant and recent menus, please see our website.

The lodge is a coveted wedding venue catering to customized weddings, regular and other group business each year in various venues throughout the lodge property.  This wedding and small group focus adds additional creative opportunities to the Restaurant Manager role, which is supported by our Catering Team.

Essential Functions/Key Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

Our ideal Assistant Restaurant Manager is creative, experienced, mature, self motivated and excited to help support a great staff environment in a professional yet down-home way and embraces working in a rustic environment in a relationship-oriented business.

Culture:

• Creating a fun, friendly culture and a high service standard

• Building an energized, well trained, technique driven team 

• Warm & friendly guest interaction including table visits, special events appearances, cordial correspondence, etc.

Staff:

• Scheduling, training and managing service staff

• Interviewing, hiring and reviewing service staff

• Coordinating daily with Tavern & Culinary managers/staff

• Communicating effectively and maintaining a close working relationship with the Restaurant Manager, Assistant General Manager & GM as well as all lodge leadership teams

• Actively supporting our youth employment and development program

Operations:

• Defining, costing and pricing restaurant and tavern menus

• Managing department profitability

• Working hands-on on a daily basis

• Coordinating and executing catering functions and special events

• Establishing structured processes & enforcing restaurant standards, programs and procedures

• Training and ongoing oversight in food quality, cleanliness & hygiene standards

• Establishing and overseeing strong safety standards

• Ordering, receiving and relationship management for vendors/purveyors

• Storage and inventory management training/standards

• Devising and executing operational enhancements

• Maintaining equipment and supplies

• Reporting/Financial:

  • Reviewing and reporting staff hours

  • Actively managing daily, weekly & bi-monthly labor and overtime

  • Managing and coding of invoices and preparing food inventories/transfers

  • Monitoring actual and theoretical food costs

  • Improving profitability

QUALIFICATIONS

 Ideal qualifications include:

• Extensive experience managing a busy restaurant, including financial management

• Strong training (formal and/or informal) and knowledge of fresh California style cuisine

• Table, bar & support service experience

• Excited about creating a warm family atmosphere for staff while maintaining high standards

• Strong interest in training/coaching and in supporting our youth mission

• Wedding or similar high-end catering experience

• Hospitality or related experience

• Independent thinker with great initiative, but comfortable working within a defined framework

Key personality traits:

• High integrity and creativity

• Guest service oriented and staff-focused

• Self-motivated (takes initiative) with high standards

• Mature, personable leader with a relaxed nature

• Execution oriented; enjoys hands-on implementation

• Leading a healthy, drug-free lifestyle

• Dynamic, fun, and likes the outdoors

• Flexible with a “whatever it takes” attitude

• Patience, patience, patience

Work environment and Physical demands

• The physical environment requires the employee to work both inside and outside in heat/cold, wet/humid, and dry/arid conditions

• Frequent walking, twisting, bending, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, sitting, climbing stairs

• Ability to stand and move continuously

• Lifting up to 50 pounds maximum

• Stocking, vacuuming, sweeping and mopping floors

• Working with required chemicals 

• Shifts of up to 8 hours per day, plus periodic additional overtime hours

Details

• Full time hourly position

• The lodge is a remote location and housing options are available both onsite and offsite

• Our local community is home to many key managers and their families as well

• Compensation based on experience

• Hours variable, including nights and weekends and all holidays, as well as situational/crisis availability; a regular schedule with specific, set days off will be established

• Drug testing required in support of the healthy work and living environment we strive to create

• Healthcare benefits available after 90 days

• 401K eligible with 3% company match after 1 year

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.