Director of Restaurants & Bars

Grand Bohemian Charlotte • Charlotte, NC

3d • Onsite

About The Position

The overall objective and purpose of the Director of Restaurants & Bars position is to coordinate, supervise and direct all property food and beverage operations while maintaining a profitable F&B department and high quality products and service levels. The Director of Restaurants & Bars is expected to market creative ideas to promote business; reduce turnover; maintain revenue and payroll budgets and meet budgeted productivity while keeping quality consistent with 4-Diamond standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or related training equivalent - required
• 3+ years of relevant work experience in similar scope and title – required
• Experience within luxury brand/markets – required
• Strategic business leader - Works strategically to devise plans in alignment with organizational goals.
• Cultivates engagement - Builds loyalty to the company and not to themselves. Proven ability to host/facilitate effective meetings, motivate teams to produce results with tight timeframes while simultaneously managing several projects.
• Generates alignment - Ensures proper time and effort is spent to build high level performance and consistency throughout collection.
• Leads with courage - Provides a culture of accountability.
• Execution of plans - Utilizes our systems, tools and resources to accomplish results and achieve goals
• Advanced level of written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to implement and uphold service standards
• Effectively motivate associates and maintain a cohesive team
• Ability to prioritize and organize work assignments
• Ability to work well in stressful, high-pressure situations
• Ability to work with and understand financial information, data and basic arithmetic functions

Responsibilities

• Monitor and control payroll and other expenses
• Create and adhere to F&B budgets
• Create schedule utilizing forecasting and scheduling tools to provide maximum efficiency and labor savings
• Directs food and beverage services organizational strategies by contributing information, analysis, and recommendations to functional strategic thinking and direction.
• Analyzes trends, prepares critical measurements, develops the F&B business plan; addresses customers, profits, associates and markets with the hotel management team; implements production, productivity, quality and guest-service strategies, designs systems solves problems; implements change
• Implements food and beverage financial strategies by anticipating requirements, trends and variances; develops budgets and capital expenditure plans; develops action plans, measures and analyzes results, initiates corrective actions, minimizing the impact of variances
• Approves menus by consulting with executive chef, beverage manager, room service manager and banquet managers; reviews potential F&B menus; evaluates popularity of past menu options and availability of seasonal food ingredients and wines; anticipates food and beverage consumption and estimates cost of ingredients; minimizing waste; approving orders with suppliers; monitors the evaluation of the quality of product
• Controls F&B supplies by meeting with sales representatives; negotiating prices and contracts; developing preferred supplier lists; reviewing and evaluating usage reports; analyzing variances; taking corrective actions.
• Keeps F&B equipment operating by enforcing adherence to operating instructions
• Maintains safe, secure, legal and healthy work environment by establishing, following and enforcing sanitation and quality of food and beverage preparation and service standards and procedures; monitors conformance to the regulations of the alcoholic beverage commission; enforcing sanitation and legal regulations of all kitchens, bars and service areas.
• Identifies current and future customer service requirements by establishing rapport with potential and actual customers and other persons in a position to understand guest service requirements.

Benefits

• Medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching contributions
• Paid holidays
• Paid vacation
• Paid sick leave (provided in accordance with applicable law)
• Employee assistance program (EAP)
• Educational opportunities / Tuition reimbursement
• Paid jury duty leave, personal leave, medical leave, and military leave in accordance with applicable law

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director