Cafe Manager - Wellington, United Kingdom - White Post Cafe

Description

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Cafe Manager to lead our family-style team. You will be responsible for overseeing the daily operations, ensuring excellent customer service, and maintaining a high standard of food quality. If you have a passion for hospitality, leadership, and creating memorable customer experiences, we would love to hear from you.

White Post cafe is an established, leading cafe renowned for creating a home-away-from-home atmosphere serving speciality coffee, a dynamic seasonal-local menu and fresh bakes, pastries and savoury scones. Relationships our vital to us - Customers, suppliers community and our local environment.

Our wholesome, seasonal cafe is tucked away on the outskirts of Wellington, in the village of Langford Budville. We are open 7 days a week 9am - 4pm.

Job Title: Café Manager - Whitepost Cafe

Reporting to: Whitepost Cafe Owner

Location: Whitepost Cafe, Langford Budville, Wellington, TA21 0QZ

Job Type: Permanent, Full Time

Salary: £28,000

(Fortnightly Shift Pattern, Alternate weekends off)

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and oversee the day-to-day operations of the Café
• Menu planning and development
• Opportunity to develop private hire & pop-up event offerings
• Operate to a high standard of customer service and professionalism
• Ensure the café is always clean and tidy
• Manage all legislation and policies including HACCP
• Recruit, train and supervise our whole cafe team including our small kitchen team.
• Regularly review performance with each team member
• Complete monthly staff rotas & manage holidays
• Ensure all café expenses are within budget and identify ways to decrease operational costs
• Stock and budget management.
• Receive delivered café supplies and verify that the correct items and quantities have been delivered.
• Identify strategies to retain and attract customers

Our Ideal Candidate:

• Minimum of a year in management in a similar busy hospitality environment, ideally working with speciality coffee & food.
• Super organised, with a keen eye for detail and a natural flair for leading teams
• Experience and knowledge of people management & problem solving
• Flexibility and ability to work on your own, using your initiative, and as part of a team
• A passion for service and quality
• Have your own transport as we are quite a remote location

This role will not involve regular evening work. Work-life is at the heart of our operation.

To apply, please send a letter explaining why you are suitable for this role & attach your CV