Summary of Position
The Restaurant Manager owns the total store operating result: P&L, guest experience, people, food safety, standards and compliance. The RM plans the trading day, makes the final T-15 readiness decision, commands through the parallel ARM/Shift Leader/Kitchen Manager structure, owns store-level escalations and ensures truthful commercial, people and operating evidence.
Key Performance Areas (KPAs)
- Trading-Day Plan & Store Readiness
- Live Store Command & Guest Outcome
- P&L, Cost & Cash Control
- Food Safety, Compliance & Risk
- People, Certification & Succession
- Close, Data & Reporting
Duties & Responsibilities
Trading-Day Plan & Store Readiness
- Read operating data and known conditions, set the day's priorities and run the T-60 briefing.
- Make the T-15 GO / NO-GO readiness decision using the approved store-operating standard.
Live Store Command & Guest Outcome
- Command the store through parallel Shift Leader, ARM and Kitchen Manager ownership, intervening on escalation without collapsing role accountability.
- Own the guest-experience outcome and final escalation/recovery decisions within published authority.
- Lead high-severity or multi-playbook incidents and interface with Area Manager/Country Head/platform functions as required.
P&L, Cost & Cash Control
- Control daily commercial/financial signals, labour, food and controllable-cost actions, void/discount authority and cash reconciliation.
- Where food-cost variance exceeds 2% of theoretical under the current operating standard, require root-cause action and log it by end of day.
- Independently reconcile the Shift Leader's end-of-day cash count the next morning.
Food Safety, Compliance & Risk
- Verify food-safety, allergen, legal/compliance and safe-to-operate corrective action; do not author functional standards outside RM authority.
People, Certification & Succession
- Own store people deployment, scheduling discipline, performance follow-up, development and succession execution.
- Ensure only appropriately certified people are assigned to roles/stations under the current approved control.
- Issue final certifications for designated store roles only where the Academy assigns RM as certifier.
Close, Data & Reporting
- Verify store close and next-morning controls, explicitly carrying forward unresolved issues.
- Complete DOL/dashboard/daily-log narrative, exception escalation and operating-data evidence truthfully and on time.
Additional Responsibilities & Reporting
- Undertake responsibilities assigned by the Direct Supervisor.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- T-60 briefing and T-15 GO / NO-GO readiness decision are completed to standard.
- Store P&L, labour, food cost and controllable-cost actions are actively managed against approved targets.
- Food-cost variance above 2% of theoretical triggers root-cause action and end-of-day logging under the current standard.
- Shift Leader cash count receives independent RM next-morning reconciliation.
- Only appropriately certified employees are independently assigned to roles/stations.
- DOL, daily log, close, compliance and escalation evidence is complete and truthful.
Qualifications
- For internal progression, hold current ARM certification and complete the Restaurant Manager Development Plan; external appointments must satisfy People OS hiring rules and equivalent operating experience.
- Strong whole-store knowledge across FOH, BOH, P&L, labour/food cost, guest recovery, food safety and people leadership.
- Ability to lead through role owners rather than personally absorbing every operating task.
- Complete current Restaurant Manager certification before independent store accountability.
Core Competencies
- Strategic Operational Leadership - Turns strategy and standards into disciplined operating execution.
- Financial Acumen - Reads P&L and operating signals and converts variance into action.
- Leadership & Succession - Builds accountable leaders and sufficient successor capacity.
- Decision Making & Judgment - Acts within authority, escalates correctly and preserves governance.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration - Works effectively with I MANAGE platform functions while preserving ownership boundaries.
- Data & Evidence Discipline - Uses verified information, protects system truth and reports exceptions clearly.
Technical Skills
Advanced working knowledge of store P&L, forecasting/deployment, POS/IMS/dashboard controls, food safety, playbook command and people/succession systems. Current Restaurant Manager certification is required before independent store accountability.
Where It Leads
Restaurant Manager (you are here) > Area Manager (next) > Operations Manager > Senior Operations Manager proving assignment > Operations Director
To earn Area Manager:
- Assignment Policy: Complete at least two years as a Restaurant Manager before permanent promotion unless an approved People OS exception applies; complete the one-year Area Manager Development Plan including at least one store opening run A-to-Z.
- Swiss Butter Academy: Maintain current Restaurant Manager certification and complete Area Manager learning, field evidence and certification before independent AM duty.
- Performance: Meet the published People OS promotion performance gate for the relevant cycle.
- Dual 80 Principle: Demonstrate at least 80% readiness against the destination-role Responsibility Register, with a named successor at least 80% ready against your current role where a permanent promotion is involved.
- Culture: Hold current culture-gate evidence and demonstrate the 5 H's consistently: hunger, hustle, humility, hardiness, heart.
- Role Availability & Approval: The destination role must be approved/open and the verified promotion or transfer pack must receive the required approval.
- Experience
- Required
- Employment
- Full-time
- Schedule
- Fexible
- Salary
- £3,500 – £4,500 monthly
Gloucester Road, South Kensington, SW7 4SF, London
Restaurant • 11-50 Employees
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