Kitchen Manager

An exciting opportunity is taking place here at Dobbies, and we want you to be a part of it. We are opening a brand new store in Tewkesbury this autumn, which will be located in Cotswolds Designer Outlet - a new premium shopping destination in the heartof England. We are not your average garden centre, we are much more than that, our brand is recognised throughout the UK. Our store will be one of our biggest ones yet, set up to the highest of standards, and standing as a beacon of quality and design amongall our stores across the UK.

Here at Dobbies, we want our customers to enjoy tasty food and great service in a welcoming and safe environment. To play an essential role in delivering this we are looking for a Kitchen Manager to join our Restaurant team. You’ll lead the kitchen teamin setting best in class examples with a focus on quality and efficient food delivery.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone to join the Dobbies brand. We’ve a great team, gorgeous restaurants and serve hot breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea (so you can spend your evenings at home).

**About the role**
- Leading the kitchen team ensuring strong levels of service that are efficient, within budget and compliant.
- Running the kitchen to ensure that our customers are presented with their meal to a high standard and on time.
- Ensuring the kitchen is always fully compliant with all statutory requirements of health & safety and food hygiene.
- Sparking your team’s passion for delivering the best food service and customer experience.
- Creating a fun and productive environment for everyone to enjoy the day to day operation whilst thinking ahead to ensure that all of your team have a development journey with Dobbies

**About You**
- You’ll bring proven fast paced food service expertise with people management experience
- Commercial awareness and understanding of budgets, profitability from driving sales and improved ways of working.
- Ability to identify training needs. You'll be effectively coaching and training all levels ensuring our teams are delivering a first-class customer experience and safe centre environment.
- You'll act quickly and enthusiastically to changing priorities, workload and new regulations or requirements.
- Positivity managing change, you'll lead the team through each season with care and motivation to deliver the best.

**Our offering**
- Generous annual leave entitlement
- Fantastic team member discount to be enjoyed in the store, restaurant and foodhall
- Thriving culture; the Dobbies team are passionate, diverse and committed to our customer
- Stakeholder pension with shared employee and employer contribution

**About Dobbies**
For 150 years, the Dobbies name has stood for quality. During this time we've been proud to provide the very best products and expert advice to gardeners throughout the UK.

Today Dobbies is UK's largest Garden Centre retailer with stores across Scotland, England and Northern Ireland. Naturally, we have one of the biggest and best ranges of quality plants and gardening equipment around.You don't have to be an avid gardenerto enjoy Dobbies because, as well as having everything to make your garden grow, we have everything you need to simply relax and enjoy your garden - and much more.