Food & Beverage Manager - Cecconi's Restaurant West Hollywood

At Cecconi's Restaurant part of Soho House a Food & Beverage Manager is responsible for managing service, quality control and consistent F&B experience is executed under the direction of the General Manager. The Food & Beverage Manager owns daily / weekly / monthly delivery on special projects and ensuring optimal member, guest and staff experience is executed.  As a Food and Beverage Manager you will develop as a leader in the hospitality industry through exceptional leadership, P&L review, forecasting, interviewing / hiring specific areas of the business, inventory, purchasing, vendor relationships and ensuring the business is optimized to its highest standards. staff and finance.

A successful Food and Beverage Manager will maximize sales and revenue through building relationships with customer understanding and implementing opportunities that drive efficiency and effective process. The Food & Beverage Manager will be largely responsible for service standards, elevating member/guest experience, hiring, training and oversight of F&B staff scheduling.

• Influential leader who proactively manages the operations in conjunction with General Manager to ensure service, staffing and member/guest experience is above par and profit meets targeted budgets
• Passionate about guest service and articulate in communicating with and interacting with members, guests, staff to preserve excellent levels of internal and external customer service
• Partner with internal and external stake holders to create, design, train and implement exceptional menus, purchase goods and continuously make necessary improvements
• Proactive in identifying customers’ needs and responsive in developing action plan that enhances experience and mitigates risk
• Engage and comply to HR (People & Development) guidelines and support recruitment efforts to ensure we are attracting, retaining and training all new hires to be high performers with high potential
• Establish targets, KPI’s, schedules, policies and procedures
• Drive transparency and open channel of communication that fosters team awareness, ownership and accountability with emphasis in motivation and teamwork
• Comply with all allergy procedures and maintaining a clean, sanitary, healthy and safe work environment for staff, members, guests and safety regulations
• Responsible for weekly/daily recaps that entail various aspects of the shift including but not limited to; service standards, allergy procedure, staffing, sales, profit and proactive solutions to mitigate future risk

• Minimum of 5+ years’ experience in a similar capacity
• Detail oriented, process driven and ability to problem solve in high-volume and demanding fast-paced environments
• POS (or alternative), Open Table, Opera or other Hospitality driven technologies experience
• Passionate and influential leader who positively communicates cross-functionally and leads a team to drive efficient and effective best practices through service
• Passionate about food and beverages trends and best practices and local health & safety compliancy regulations
• Ability to manage personnel and meet / exceed financial targets
• Guest-oriented and service-minded as well as flexible and pro-active

• Must be able to seize, grasp, turn and hold objects with hands.
• Must be able to make periodical fast paced movements are required to go from one part of the property to others.
• Must be able to move, pull, push, carry or lift at least 30 pounds.
• Must be able to occasionally kneel, bend, crouch and climb is required.
• Must be able to perform physical activities such as lifting, cleaning, and stooping.
• Must be able to stand, walk, lift, and bend for long periods of time.