Deputy General Manager - Table Table - Kendal

England, Cumbria, Kendal
£24000 - £27000 per annum + Excellent bonus and benefits
17 Jan 2017
14 Feb 2017
518290
Whitbread PLC
Full Time
The Wakefield Arms is one of our beautiful Table Table restaurants which is set in the heart of the stunning Lake District town of Kendal. We offer delicious pub food whilst taking in the stunning views of this picturesque part of England. Plus our excellent team look after each guest from the moment they walk in so they can relax and enjoy the best of what we have to offer. We are now in need of a strong Assistant Manager or a current Deputy General Manager to help assist the General Manager in the day to day running of the restaurant. You will help train, coach and develop our team to ensure they provide a world class service, achieving world class results. You will be great with guests and ensure the team are interacting and up-selling as much as possible, this is a seasonal site and is very popular with families.

Wow, in this second-in-command role you could be first in line to be a General Manager faster than you think! After all, you'll be working with the largest hospitality group in the UK - and winner of the Publican award for the best 51+ site employer - so the career development opportunities are as amazing as you are.

When your GM is absent, you'll have all the responsibility of running the show, leading and motivating your team to make our food the hero and deliver stunning service standards. We call it Serving Up Great Memories. You'll call it sheer dedication to ensuring that even the little details are spot on as you run a perfect shift every time.

You'll need oodles of confidence and initiative as you put our customers at the heart of everything you do. You'll solve problems before they happen, delegate tasks effectively and spot any training needs amongst your team so that your people remain the Main Ingredient of the business. That you've got natural people management skills and the commercial savvy to drive sales and profit goes without saying.

So what's in it for you? Oh, just jaw-dropping further training and career development opportunities across our entire Group. A phenomenally fast-paced environment that's constantly evolving. Plenty of autonomy and accountability - there's no hand holding here! And all with a brand that we've invested our heart and soul into bringing the look, feel and customer offering bang up-to-date.

So where are you now? Well, we know that our future talent can come from any number of backgrounds. You might already be a DGM but with nothing like the clout we'll give you. Or you're an Assistant Manager/Team Leader/Supervisor in the pub/restaurant, casual dining, retail or even high street coffee arena, ready to take your skills to the next level. Whichever, if you think you've got what it takes, we're the business that can take you where you want to be.

So let us know how you'll make an unbelievable impact on our people, our profits and, most importantly our guests.

Salary up to £27,000 and what's more we have the best bonus scheme in town.