Duma Works is recruiting a Food and Beverage Manager for one of our clients.
The client is one of the leading restaurants in Nairobi.
Job Purpose
- Monitor compliance with health and fire regulations regarding food preparation and serving, and building maintenance in dining facilities.
- Monitor employee and patron activities to ensure liquor regulations are obeyed.
- Greet guests, escort them to their seats, and present them with menus and wine lists.
- Monitor food preparation methods, portion sizes, and garnishing and presentation of food to ensure that food is prepared and presented in an acceptable manner.
- Count money and make bank deposits.
- Investigate and resolve complaints regarding food quality, service.
- Coordinate assignments of cooking personnel to ensure economical use of food and timely preparation.
- Schedule and receive food and beverage deliveries, checking delivery contents to verify product quality and quantity.
- Monitor budgets and payroll records, and review financial transactions to ensure that expenditures are authorized and budgeted.
- Maintain food and equipment inventories, and keep inventory records.
- Schedule staff hours and assign duties.
- Establish standards for personnel performance and customer service.
- Perform some food preparation or service tasks such as cooking, clearing tables, and serving food and drinks when necessary.
- Plan menus and food utilization based on anticipated number of guests, nutritional value, palatability, popularity, and costs.
- Schedule use of facilities or catering services for events such as banquets or receptions, and negotiate details of arrangements with clients.
- Keep records required by government agencies regarding sanitation, and food subsidies when appropriate.
- Test cooked food by tasting and smelling it to ensure palatability and flavour conformity.
- Organize and direct worker training programs, resolve personnel problems, hire new staff, and evaluate employee performance in dining and lodging facilities.
- Order and purchase equipment and supplies.
- Review work procedures and operational problems to determine ways to improve service, performance, or safety.
- Assess staffing needs, and recruit staff
- Estimate food, liquor, wine, and other beverage consumption to anticipate amounts to be purchased or requisitioned.
- Create speciality dishes and develop recipes to be used in dining facilities.
- Arrange for equipment maintenance and repairs, and coordinate a variety of services such as waste removal and pest control.
- Record the number, type, and cost of items sold to determine which items may be unpopular or less profitable.
- Review menus and analyse recipes to determine labour and overhead costs, and assign prices to menu items.
- Establish and enforce nutritional standards for dining establishments based on accepted industry standards.
- Take dining reservations.
- oversee execution of organizational or program policies
Qualifications
- At least 2 years experience as an F&B Manager
How to Apply
Deadline: 10th November 2015
If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, please send your CV to apply@dumaworks.com. As the subject line of your email, write “1938” and please make sure to include your Name and Phone number in the message body.
If you don’t follow these instructions, your application will not go through.
* When applying to any job through Duma Works, you can expect that after you apply, you will receive a confirmation email, and then an SMS alert asking you to take a basic screening test over SMS. The SMS with the test may not arrive immediately. Please be patient. The SMS test will typically be 5-8 questions to help us understand your background. Regular SMS rates apply to the test, and if you ever have any issues with the process, please reach out to 0702093793.
* When applying to any job through Duma Works, you can expect that after you apply, you will receive a confirmation email, and then an SMS alert asking you to take a basic screening test over SMS. The SMS with the test may not arrive immediately. Please be patient. The SMS test will typically be 5-8 questions to help us understand your background. Regular SMS rates apply to the test, and if you ever have any issues with the process, please reach out to 0702093793.