Restaurant & Bar Assistant Manager

Food & Beverage Assistant Manager

Four Seasons Hotel Minneapolis seeks a Food & Beverage Assistant Manager to join our talented team! Don't miss this unique opportunity to be part of the world's leading luxury hotel company!

Basic Purpose: Plan, organize, control and direct the work of employees in the Hotel's Mara Restaurant and Bar Mara while ensuring guest satisfaction.

Essential Functions:

• Select, train, evaluate, lead, motivate, coach, and discipline all employees in the Mara Restaurant & Bar Mara to ensure that established cultural and core standards are met; daily activities and planning for outlet operation.
• The ability to be visible in the operation, provide recognition, promote good public relations, and handle complaints, concerns or special requests for guests, clients, and group contacts.
• Describe and ensure quality of all food items, ingredients, and preparation methods, as well as provide expert knowledge of wine and spirits in an elegantly appointed environment dedicated to an attentive and distinctive experience for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
• Control labor and operating expenses through effective scheduling, budgeting, purchasing decisions, and inventory and cash control.
• Observe the physical condition of facilities and equipment in the outlet and make recommendations for corrections and improvements as needed.
• Develop and maintain an elegantly appointed environment with superior staff dedicated to providing our guests with an attentive and distinctive experience for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
• Control reservations, seating patterns, and turnover while maintaining service standards.
• Participate in employee performance evaluations.
• Perform other tasks or projects as signed by the Hotel Manager, Mara General Manager, and Executive Leadership Team.

Preferred Qualifications and Skills: A college degree specializing in hotel/restaurant management or equivalent experience is required. One to two years previous experience in assistant manager or department head position in Food & Beverage. Requires a working knowledge of division operations as well as Four Seasons cultural and core standards, policies, and standard operating procedures. Knowledge of food & beverage service, cost control, labor control, maintenance, merchandising, and accounting. Requires ability to operate computer equipment and other food & beverage computer systems. Requires reading, writing and oral proficiency in the English language. Eight-to-ten-hour shifts; scheduled days and work hours may vary based on need.

About Four Seasons Hotel & Private Residences Minneapolis: Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences Minneapolis is an unrivaled expression of luxury. The new 37-storey building will be situated at the convergence of business and leisure in Minneapolis, at the top of Nicollet Mall, the city's pedestrian thoroughfare. A few short blocks from the Mississippi River, the mixed-use complex will also serve as RBC Wealth Management's US headquarters. Key features will include Gavin Kaysen, local Celebrity Chef in partnership with Four Seasons, 19,400 sq. ft. of meeting space, downtown's only Luxury Spa and a 5000 sq. ft. Pool Deck.

Service Culture: Currently operating 122 hotels and resorts, and 46 residential properties in major city centers and resort destinations in 47 countries, and with more than 50 projects under planning or development, Four Seasons consistently ranks among the world's best hotels and most prestigious brands in reader polls, traveler reviews and industry awards. Our greatest asset, and the key to our success, is our people. We believe that each of us needs a sense of dignity, pride and satisfaction in what we do.

What to Expect: Salary: $65,000-70,000. No cost medical plan option, dental, vision & life insurances with only a 30-day waiting period. 401(k) Retirement Plan. Excellent Training and Development opportunities. Complimentary Accommodation at other Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. Complimentary Dry Cleaning for Employee Uniforms. Complimentary Employee Meals and so much more!