Food and Beverage Manager

Crescent Careers•Santa Monica, CA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

This role involves managing and directing the functions of the Food and Beverage Department to meet daily operational needs. The manager is responsible for the administration and planning of various sub-departments including room service, restaurants, banquets, kitchens, and steward services. Key aspects include developing and implementing departmental schedules to achieve profitability, creating menus to attract target customers, and controlling food, beverage, and labor costs according to company standards. The position also requires ensuring guest satisfaction through effective service and quality, developing operational tools like budgets and specifications, and fostering a well-trained and motivated team. Compliance with all state, federal, and corporate regulations regarding alcohol service is mandatory.

Requirements

Ability to communicate in English.
Self-starting personality with an even disposition.
Maintain a professional appearance and manner at all times.
Can communicate well with guests.
Willing to “pitch-in” and help co-workers with their job duties and be a team player.
Considerable skill in complex mathematical calculations without error.
Ability to effectively deal with internal and external customers, some of whom will require high levels of patience, tact and diplomacy to defuse anger, collect accurate information and resolve conflicts.
Ability to move throughout all food and beverage areas and hospitality suites and continuously perform essential job functions.
Ability to access and input information using a moderately complex computer system.
Ability to observe and distinguish product quality by smell, taste, and appearance.

Responsibilities

Interview, hire, train, recommend performance evaluations, resolve problems, provide open communication and recommend discipline and/or termination when appropriate.
Plan and direct the functions of administration and planning of the Food and Beverage Department to meet the daily needs of the operation.
Clearly describe, assign and delegate responsibility and authority for the operation of the various food and beverage sub-departments, e.g. room service, restaurants, banquets, kitchens, steward, etc.
Develop, implement and monitor schedules for the operation of all food and beverage sub-departments to achieve a profitable result.
Participate with Food and Beverage managers in the creation of menus designed to attract a predetermined customer market.
Implement effective control of food, beverage and labor costs among all sub-departments to Crescent standards.
Abide by all State, Federal and Corporate requirements pertaining to serving alcoholic beverages.
Work in collaboration with F&B manager in establishing and achieving predetermined profit objectives and desired standards of quality food, service, cleanliness, merchandising and promotion.
Regularly review and evaluate the degree of guest satisfaction of the individual restaurants and banquet service, to recommend new operating and marketing policies whenever declining or constant sales imply dissatisfaction by the customers, a material change in the make-up or the customer market, or a change in the competitive environment.
Develop operating tools necessary and incidental to modern management principles, e.g. budgeting, forecasting purchase specifications, recipes, portion specifications, menu abstracts, food production control etc.
Continuously evaluate the performance and encourage improvement of the associates in the food and beverage department.
Plan and administer a training and development program within the department which will provide well trained associate at all levels.
Communicate both verbally and in writing to provide clear direction to staff.
Comply with attendance rules and be available to work on a regular basis.
Perform any other job related duties as assigned.