Restaurant Manager

Zanti Cucina Italiana is looking for a Restaurant Manager for their Fine Dining Restaurant in River Oaks!

Primary Purpose of the Role

The Restaurant Manager is responsible for overseeing, coordinating, and executing the daily operations of the restaurant including but not limited to:

• Planning and organization, ensuring compliance with company standards of our restaurant including customer relations (internal and external), and the selection, development, and performance management of employees.
• The planning, organizing, training, and leadership necessary to achieve stated objectives in sales, costs, profitability, employee retention, guest service and satisfaction, food quality, cleanliness, sanitation, and local regulations.
• Supervise daily restaurant operations, maintain sanitation standards, and assists servers and hosts on the floor during peak meal periods. Strive to continually improve guest and employee satisfaction and maximize financial performance in areas of responsibility. Regularly measure and evaluate service levels and standards using guest and employee feedback and develop plans for continuous improvement.

Main Duties/Core Work Activities

Generally oversee and manage all areas of the restaurant’s day-to-day operations.

Managing day-to-day operations include but are not limited to:

• Completely understanding all of the restaurant’s policies, procedures, standards, specifications, guidelines, and training programs.
• Ensuring that all guests feel welcome and are given responsive, friendly, and courteous service at all times.
• Ensuring that all food and products are consistently prepared and served according to the restaurant’s recipes, portioning, cooking, and serving standards.
• Assisting other staff members to complete opening, closing and prep lists.
• Actively managing other staff members by working hands on in making food, servicing customers, and overseeing the coordination of deliveries.
• Ensuring process compliance for all of the front of the house operations (opening and closing shifts).
• Achieving company objectives in sales, service, quality, appearance of facility and sanitation and cleanliness through training of employees and creating a positive, productive working environment.
• Controlling cash and other receipts by adhering to cash handling and reconciliation procedures in accordance with restaurant policies and procedures.
• Evaluating employee performance consistent with restaurant’s policies, standards, and guidelines and provide feedback to the Management team regarding employment and termination decisions.
• Filling in where needed to ensure guest service standards and efficient operations.
• Continually striving to develop your staff in all areas of managerial and professional development.
• Preparing all required paperwork, including forms, reports, and schedules in an organized and timely manner.
• Ensuring that all equipment is kept clean and kept in excellent working condition through personal inspection and by following the restaurant’s preventative maintenance programs.
• Ensuring that all products are received in correct unit count and condition and deliveries are performed in accordance with the restaurant’s receiving policies and procedures.
• Overseeing and ensuring that restaurant policies on employee performance appraisals are followed and completed on a timely basis.
• Scheduling labor as required by anticipated business activity while ensuring that all positions are staffed when and as needed and labor cost objectives are met.
• Being knowledgeable of restaurant policies regarding personnel and administer prompt, fair and consistent corrective action for all violations of company policies, rules, and procedures.
• Fully understanding and compliance with all federal, state, county and municipal regulations that pertain to health, safety and labor requirements of the restaurant, employees, and guests.
• Providing advice and suggestions to the Management team as needed.

We Offer

• Competitive compensation
• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance benefits
• Paid life insurance for employees
• Career development