Front of House Manager

Front of House Manager

Moody Lagoon Restaurant Benguela Cove Lagoon Wine Estate Walker Bay Hermanus

We are looking for someone to run the front of house at Moody Lagoon.

The setting is not a bad place to spend your working life. Moody Lagoon sits on the edge of the Bot River lagoon on a working wine estate with the Atlantic on one side and the vineyards on the other. We serve around numerous covers a day we pour our own wine and about a quarter of what we do is events.

Here is the honest part. This job is two jobs. Half of it is service: leading a team through a busy lunch looking after guests who have driven an hour to get here and knowing our wines well enough to sell them properly. The other half is control: the till the stock the buying and the margins.

Most restaurants leave that second half to chance. We have just spent a month proving what it costs when you do. So we are looking for someone who can hold a section and read a spreadsheet and who is not bored by either.

What Youll Be Doing

• The front of house and bar team: hiring training rostering developing
• The guest experience from a Tuesday lunch to a two hundred cover event
• Our point of sale. Not operating it administering it: products categories costs and margins
• Monthly stock-takes and the variance behind them beverage gross profit and buying alongside our Head Chef
• Our wine on the floor. Lighthouse through to the Vinothèque library bottles

What Youll Need

• Three years or more running front of house somewhere busy with real responsibility for people
• Genuine comfort with numbers. You should be able to work out a gross profit and spot when a figure looks wrong. If spreadsheets put you off this is not your job and we would rather say so now
• Hands-on point of sale administration. We run iKentoo; Lightspeed GAAP Micros or Pilot experience transfers fine
• Real wine knowledge or a real appetite to get there fast
• Your own transport. We are twenty minutes outside Hermanus and there is no bus

Who You Are

• Someone who can hold a section and read a spreadsheet and who is not bored by either

Whats In It For You

• A permanent role with real autonomy on an estate that is investing seriously in this restaurant
• Salary is negotiable on experience
• Staff meals and beverage discounts and estate discounts
• Restaurant hours which means weekends public holidays and a busy December and two consecutive days off a week

Location

This role is based at Moody Lagoon Restaurant Benguela Cove Lagoon Wine Estate Walker Bay Hermanus.

Required Experience:

Manager