Floor Manager

Overview:

As a leader of the front of house operations, the floor manager works with the property team to communicate, drive, and measure productivity, and effectiveness in achieving the overarching financial, employee, and guest satisfaction goals of Hank’s Oyster Bar on the Wharf, while adhering to all business guidelines and policies.

Specifics:

• Responsible for and manages the host stand
  • Directly responsible for training of hosts
  • Creates host schedules on a weekly basis in 7shifts
  • Ensures host team is properly and consistently following JLRG policies and standards
  • Serves as property subject matter expert for Resy: creating floor plans, booking windows, table capacity, turn times, and waitlist policies
  • Manages reservation bookings and communicates guest count, VIP’s, noted allergens, special requests to leadership team and staff
  • Maintains and updates Host Information Sheet
  • Ensures print menus are correct and up to date
  • Ensures host team is aware of server sections, specials, current oyster selection, bar staff on duty, local events impacting business (shows/events), and any large party or private events
• Responsible for and manages the front of house support team
  • Create draft schedules weekly for the support team in 7shifts
  • Communicates and manages interview process for all open support team positions
  • Directly responsible for training of the support team
  • Maintains and updates support team’s side work sheet
• Manages Private Event Inquiry and Booking Process
  • Responds to incoming private event leads within 48 hours
  • Converts leads to events by working with client on space, food, and beverage needs
  • Creates Banquet Event Orders to communicated day of logistics to team

• Monitors, manages, and tracks sales, costs and purchases
  • Participates in weekly and monthly P&L meetings, creating action plans to drive sales, control costs, or rectify any inaccuracies/issues
  • Creates plans and sales strategies to achieve daily sales goals
• Participate in weekly managers meeting and daily pre-shift meetings

Daily FOH Management Duties

•  Partner with and effectively communicate with other managers on duty
• Conducts daily pre-shift meetings with the entire restaurant staff
• Respond to and resolve issues among staff immediately
• Document any attendance, no-call/no-shows, or un-excused absences
• Communicates details about the shift in the daily logbook
• Guest Relations
• Touch base with tables throughout service ensuring guests are satisfied with their food and their experience
• Keep GM updated on guest issues, VIP reservations, special requests
• Run food for any re-fires or noted allergies
• Convey Menu Changes, Updates, and Specials to FOH team
• Remain in contact with BOH team through service
• Ensure oysters, specials and 86’s are loaded into TOAST correctly
• Assist all hourly FOH staff during service  
• Ensure support staff are working and rotating to meet business needs, positioning team throughout service to run food and drinks as detailed in the steps of service and effectively pre-bus and re-set tables
• Assigns pre and post shift side work
• Make sure reservation requests are being honored to best of our ability
• Ensure server sections rotate and seating assignments are fair to servers
• Manage and communicate with unseated reservations and waitlist guests
• Help servers and support staff by managing incoming traffic/overflow
• Run oysters and drinks to maintain steps of service standards
• Help bus and re-set tables during peak times

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Our ideal candidate possesses a strong knowledge of restaurant operations with a focus on training and guest communication. They are outgoing, hospitable, and truly embody our guest first mentality, providing goodness to people through food and beverage.

• Minimum of 2 years of restaurant management experience in a high volume (1000 covers daily)
• Financially literacy with some knowledge of managing restaurant budgets and analyzing weekly and monthly P&L statements
• Experience with training and on-boarding a team of 20 individuals
• Working knowledge of the following systems: RESY, 7Shifts, TOAST, Avero, MarginEdge, Microsoft TEAMS, and Paychex Flex
• Native Spanish speaker or fluency in Spanish required,

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• Seeing, hearing, and speaking.
• Able to lift to 30 pounds occasionally.
• Able to walk, stand, and/or bend continuously and for extended periods as required to perform essential job functions.
• These physical requirements may be accomplished with or without reasonable accommodation.

EEO Statement: JL Restaurant Group is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We do not discriminate on the basis race, color, creed, religion, gender (including gender identity and expression), sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, childbirth or related condition, sexual and reproductive health decisions, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, military or veteran status, genetic information or predisposing genetic characteristic, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual violence, or stalking, or any other legally protected status.

Salary : $70,000 - $75,000