Food and Beverage Director

Who We Are

Tides Folly Beach is a beachfront hotel driven and defined by a singular passion: community. We go above and beyond to provide an expectation-exceeding, smile-inducing, memory-making experience for our community of guests. Internally, we focus on building a strong, tight-knit team community through growth, support, camaraderie, and pride. We embrace the community, culture, and spirit of Folly Beach while also being a steward in the evolution of the town as a coastal destination.

JOB TITLE: Food and Beverage Director

DEPARTMENT: Food and Beverage

LOCATION: Tides Hotel

REPORTS TO: General Manager

Position Summary

The overall objective and purpose of the Food and Beverage Director position is to direct and oversee all aspects of the organization’s food and beverage operations ensuring the program is in compliance with standards for quality, service and safety, while maintaining a profitable F&B department. This role provides input to strategic decisions that affect the functional area of responsibility in support of the mission, core values, standards and goals established by the organization.

Main Duties And Responsibilities

• Assists with budget development and forecasting for Food and Beverage outlets
• Responsible for all controllable costs and financial reporting in the Food and Beverage Department.
• Develops and implements creative strategies to increase revenues
• Develops and Trains employees and managers to meet standards and expectations
• Ensures competitive pricing through vendor management
• Monitors business volume forecast and plans accordingly in areas of labor, productivity, costs, and other expenses
• Works in concert with the Executive Chef to plan, cost-out, and implement menus and related activities in the dining room, bar and banquet operations
• Inspects food and food preparation areas to maintain high quality standards and enforces safe food handling procedures and sanitation standards
• Investigates and resolves food and beverage quality and service complaints
• Ensures that food supplies and equipment are secure and inventoried on a regular basis through proper inventory control
• Participates in hiring, training, evaluation and necessary disciplinary actions of food service personnel
• Maintains a strong positive presence in each area and closely monitors guest satisfaction and employee morale
• Participates in weekly Leadership meetings to meet business objectives and provide insight and direction as needed
• Maintains and fosters positive relationships with personnel, guests, vendors and third party contractors
• Manage and Train service standards of the restaurants, bars, coffee shop and banquet services
• Manage and ensure the adherence to safe food handling practices and techniques, sanitation and legal regulations of all kitchens, bars and service areas
• Establish and maintain positive rapport with guests to foster repeat business
• Maintain the integrity of Company proprietary information and protect Company assets
• All other duties and responsibilities as assigned, planned or unplanned
  
  

Supervisory Responsibilities

• F&B Outlet Managers
• Banquets Department
  
  

Job Requirements

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business or related training equivalent

Experience: 6 years of relevant work experience in similar scope and title

Skills: Experience within luxury brand/markets

Working Conditions

The working conditions described below are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical & Mental Requirements

• While performing the duties of this job, the incumbent is regularly required to move 10lbs on a daily basis.
• Push, pull, and lift up to 50lbs on a weekly basis.
• While performing the duties of this job, the incumbent is regularly required to travel by foot, car, bus, airplane or other means of transportation which require sitting, waiting and standing for long and short periods of time.
  
  

Work Environment

• Must be comfortable working in a shared space, with constant noise, without the use of a private office.
• Must be able to cope with frequent changing priorities and deadlines with a high degree of optimism, professionalism & collaboration.
• Schedules may vary from week to week based on business demands in excess of 40 hours with or without notice.
  
  

Benefits

• A culture that values passion, individuality, and fun!
• Opportunities for internal growth and development
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Paid holidays
• Earned Wage Access through PayActiv- access to your earned wages before payday!
• Affordable medical, dental, & vision insurance plans
• Company provided life insurance
• Short & Long Term Disability and Accident and Critical Illness Insurance
• Traditional 401(k) & Roth 401(k) with employer matching of up to 3.5%
• Tuition Assistance
• Referral program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Discounts at all Avocet-owned hotels & restaurants
  
  

EOE / DFWP