Job Description
Your Aramark hospitality journey starts here!
Warwick Castle boasts an impressive lineup of shows including the UK’s largest birds of prey show – The Falconers Quest, home to Europe’s largest working siege machine, the Trebuchet and several other spectacular events and attractions throughout the year. We offer different types of hotel accommodation to our guests, including glamping tents and woodland lodges in our Knights Village, and our newly opened Warwick Castle Hotel. It’s an office like no other!
Your role
We are recruiting for an assistant restaurant manager who will look after our hotel dining operations. This role is being recruited on a full time, permanent basis. We have a 100-cover restaurant, and in September will be opening a 50-cover bar area, operating two services a day. Our complimentary breakfast (which in peak season will be serving over 500 guests!) and our hearty dinner carvery is an optional offer for all our accommodation guests. In our peak periods we have outdoor food and beverage units including a bar and fish & chips.
You will be responsible for the day-to-day operation of the restaurant and managing a small team. We really mean it when we say no 2 days are the same, we have a huge variety of guests come to stay with us – from all age ranges and from all corners of the globe. This is a varied role and will require hands on service experience, as well as administration computer skills.
We are looking for team players who are looking for a fun and engaging role. We are passionate about delivering great food, in-keeping with the heritage of our superb surroundings.
What's in it for you?
We are offering a 40-hour week contract, working 5 out of 7. Our operating times are between 7am and 10.30pm. We offer flexible working hours in exchange for a salary of up to £27k (depending on experience).
- Magic Passes (free passes to use across our theme parks)
- food on shift
- parking
- - discounts across thousands of retailers
- annual leave, increasing in line with service and the ability to buy extra days
- in house mental health champion
- opportunity to develop and progress
- and themed events
The ingredients for success –
Essential:
Personality
- player - balancing act between looking after the FOH breakfast, dinner and chef teams.
- positive, ‘can-do’ attitude
- organised
- solving
- our newer team members, showing them your amazing customer service skills.
Skills:
- experience in food and beverage supervising
- Outlook, Excel, Microsoft Teams
- communication – verbal, written and online.
- of level 2 Food hygiene
- training
Desirable:
- of house systems e.g. Fourth ordering, Micros, and Kronos payroll
- supervisor experience
- management