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  • Restaurant General Manager
    Restaurant General Manager
    11 hours ago
    £17–£20 hourly
    Full-time
    Leamouth, Tower Hamlets

    🎹 GENERAL MANAGER - BERINGERS All-day brasserie and piano bar | London City Island, E14 Full-time | Salary plus tips and service charge | [Bonus Scheme | Immediate start In 1895, a man called Guy Beringer wrote a letter to the press complaining about Sunday lunch. He had a point. Victorian Sundays meant getting up early for a heavy, joyless meal, usually while regretting the night before. Beringer proposed something better: push the whole thing back to midday, combine breakfast and lunch, and let people linger. He called it brunch. His argument was never really about food. Breakfast, he wrote, suits solitude. Brunch is cheerful, sociable, talk-compelling. It sweeps away the worries and cobwebs of the week. He finished with a postscript that we've taken rather seriously: beer and whiskey are admitted as substitutes for tea and coffee. We named the place after him. Beringers is our attempt to build brunch the way he actually meant it - not a queue and a 90-minute table turn, but a long, unhurried, sociable affair that starts with coffee and has no particular obligation to end. ☕ FOUR MONTHS IN We opened on London City Island at the start of this year, and it has gone better than we hoped. The room has found its people. Residents who come in every week. Tables that book at midday and are still there at six, having moved from brunch to a bottle of wine to the terrace for a spritz. Late nights at the bar where nobody's watching the clock. The regulars know our team by name and, increasingly, know each other. Our opening team has built something genuinely special from a standing start, and we're proud of them. Now we want to take it to the next level - and for that we need a General Manager. 🍸 THE VENUE All-day brasserie. Doors at 7am for coffee and the Pantry, through brunch and lunch, into a full evening menu. Signature dishes people come back for: Duck and Egg Waffles, the wild mushroom omelette, Nduja Toast. Piano bar. A baby grand at the heart of the room, live performances several times a week, and a proper cocktail list. Our Piano Plates are the signature - tapas-style sharing dishes built to be picked at slowly with a drink in the other hand. Terrace. Where a long lunch quietly becomes an evening. Events. Concert Nights, Uncork and Unwind wine tastings, tribute evenings, festival collaborations, private hires and the 1895 Club membership programme. There's a calendar, and it's growing. Full table service throughout. This is a restaurant, run properly. 🎶 ONE THING THAT MATTERS MORE HERE THAN MOST PLACES Music sets the room. It's the single biggest lever you have over how Beringers feels, and we take it seriously. The right playlist at 8am is not the right playlist at 8pm. Sunday afternoon is not Friday night. Knowing when to lift the room, when to let it settle, when to turn it up because the bar has found its second wind - that's a craft, and we want a GM who has it. You'll also work with our resident musicians and programme the live schedule alongside our events team. If you've ever changed a playlist mid-service because the room needed something else, you'll know exactly what we mean. 🚀 THE ROLE You'll take full ownership of Beringers City Island, reporting directly to senior management. Running the floor. Leading service from the pass to the door, at the standard we've set. Present in the room, known to the regulars, hands on when it counts. Leading the team. Recruiting, training, developing and retaining a front of house team that's already good and can be better. Rotas, structure, clear standards and a culture people want to stay in. The commercial side. Full P&L accountability: revenue, GP, labour cost, stock and controls. You'll be given real numbers, real targets and real autonomy to hit them. Growing covers. Building the reservations book, the regulars, the events diary and the 1895 Club. Making a busy Tuesday as good as a busy Saturday. Working with the kitchen. A genuine partnership on menu development, execution and consistency. The unglamorous but essential. Food safety, health and safety, licensing, compliance, reviews and everything else that keeps a venue running properly. Shaping what's next. Menus, events, ideas, the evening offer. We're four months old. There's plenty still to write, and we want a GM with opinions. 🔥 WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR • Proven experience as a General Manager, or a strong Assistant GM or Restaurant Manager ready to step up, • Genuine restaurant background - full table service, food-led, quality-driven, • Real commercial confidence. Comfortable with a P&L, labour percentages, GP and stock, • A leader people want to work for. We'd rather hear about a team you developed than a team you managed, • A natural host who understands that regulars are built one conversation at a time, • Instinctive about atmosphere - music, lighting, pace, energy, • Bar and cocktail knowledge, or the enthusiasm to get properly involved, • Personal Licence holder preferred, or willing to obtain one, • Someone who wants to build something rather than maintain it You do not need a piano bar on your CV. You need to care about rooms that feel good and people who come back. WHAT WE OFFER • Salary reviewed as the site grows. (Inc. performance bonus scheme), • Tips and service charge, • Real autonomy. This is your site to run, not a script to follow., • A group that's growing. Beringers Wandsworth opens this winter, and The Bull Group also runs Lockdown, Supershakes, The Observatory and The Eleventh Hour across London. We promote from within wherever we can, and there's a genuine path here for someone who wants one., • A Sunday & Monday close at 5pm, which in an all-day restaurant is rarer than it sounds, • Food and drinks on shift, plus discounts across every venue in the group, • Involvement in menu development, supplier tastings and the events programme, • Direct access to senior management. Small group, short decision chain, ideas get heard., • 28 days holiday ⚡ WHY THIS ONE Most General Manager jobs in London are about maintaining something that already exists. This one is four months old, in a growing group, with a story worth telling, a room people are already protective of, and enough left to build that your fingerprints will be all over it a year from now. If that's the job you've been waiting for, we'd like to hear from you. 👋 HOW TO APPLY Hit apply and send us a short message about why you'd be good for this GM role at Beringers. We read every application and reply to everyone. From there it's a short call, then we'd love to have you in - see the venue, meet the team, have a coffee and a proper conversation about where Beringers goes next. Beringers, 45 Hope Street, Leamouth Peninsula, London E14 0QG. Part of The Bull Group.

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  • Lettings Manager
    Lettings Manager
    7 days ago
    Full-time
    London

    Property Lettings Manager — (Founding Team) London | Hybrid (Remote + Field) | Commission-only | Entrepreneurial Venture *Please read this ad in full before applying.* The journey has already begun, are you ready to jump onboard? King Khawaja Angels is the newly-launched property management and concierge arm of King Khawaja Investments LLP, registered in Mayfair. We're building something from the ground up — a boutique lettings and concierge brand delivered by a team we call our "Angels," backed by AI-driven client communication tools. There is no existing client book to inherit — this is about sourcing, pitching, and closing deals entirely from scratch. A different way of working This is a hybrid role — part remote, part field. We're breaking away from the conventional office model in favour of something more flexible and fluid. You'll stay connected with the team through regular Zoom calls and informal catch-ups at convenient spaces — a local café, lounge, or hotel — to stay aligned on the latest developments. You'll also have exclusive use of our Old Bond Street office to entertain clients for meetings and signings, giving you a prestigious Mayfair address to close deals from. We're not looking to become another high street estate agent. Our vision is to build the biggest virtual lettings management and concierge service in London — and become the market leader in this field. This is not a conventional job. There is no basic salary. This is an opportunity for someone entrepreneurial who wants to build a client base, earn serious commission, and grow with a brand from day one. Who we need • A strong-minded, self-driven individual — not someone looking for a 9-to-5, • Comfortable with the uncertainty and grind of an early-stage venture, • Willing to put in the work to build relationships and win landlords from scratch, with no existing clientele to fall back on — every deal starts from zero, • Experience in lettings/property management preferred, but mindset matters more than CV, • Someone who understands that building something worthwhile takes hustle before it pays off What you'll do • Build a landlord client base from the ground up — sourcing, pitching, onboarding, • Manage the full lettings lifecycle: tenant sourcing, referencing, compliance, renewals, • Represent the brand with a concierge-level standard of service, • Help shape the operational backbone of the business as it scales, • Complete autonomy to steer the business in the direction you believe will drive its success — this isn't a role where you follow a script, it's one where you help write it Rewards Commission-based: 40% for your first 12 months, or your first 25 landlords onboarded — no ceiling on what you can earn • 28 days holiday, • Your birthday off, every year, • Travel opportunities as the business grows, • Training and professional development support, • A genuine seat at the table in a founding team — real equity in the brand's future, not just a job title If you're looking for safety and a guaranteed paycheque, this isn't for you. If you're looking to build something and be rewarded properly for it, we want to hear from you. Love Khawaja's Angels 12 Old Bond St, Mayfair

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  • Hotel Receptionist
    Hotel Receptionist
    14 days ago
    £12.71–£13 hourly
    Full-time
    Pimlico, London

    We are looking to recruit a Receptionist to join our Front Office Team. This is an opportunity for either an experienced receptionist or for someone with no previous experience, who has a genuine desire to work within the hospitality industry. However, service with a smile and personality is a must. You should possess excellent communication skills, with a good command of spoken English.The role will involve welcoming our guests to the hotel in a friendly and helpful manner, assisting with many and varied guest requirements from check-in to check-out, ensuring excellent guest service at all times. You must have a friendly and polite manner and you will be expected to care for all our customers in a helpful, professional and efficient way.Experience • Previous experience working within a reception environment preferred, but not essential, • Skills and Knowledge, • Strong Communication skills (verbal, listening, writing), good level of English essential, • Pro-active and reliable, • Able to work alone and within a team SPECIFIC DUTIES • Ensure bookings for bedrooms and restaurant are taken in a timely, accurate and professional manner, • Manage all guest queries in a professional and courteous manner, • Ensure all banking and cash handling procedures are followed, • Ensure guests are looked after when they enter the Hotel ensuring all registration documents are filled out., • Up-sell whenever possible to increase revenue, • Work with other departments on a regular basis to ensure guest satisfaction, • Be knowledgeable about all areas of the hotel, • Work environment kept clean, tidy and safe at all times in line with Health and Safety legislation. As a Receptionist, you will work shifts any 5 days out of 7.

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  • Freelance Writer
    Freelance Writer
    2 months ago
    £13 hourly
    Full-time
    London

    I'm looking for a highly organised freelance production editor to help transfer content from Microsoft Word into professionally designed Canva templates. This is not a writing or design role. The content has already been written and the page layouts have already been designed. Your role is to accurately place the content into the correct Canva pages while maintaining consistency throughout the book. About the Project Sustainable Fashion Vocabulary is a major reference publication designed to become a practical industry tool for designers, brands, educators, consultants, journalists and sustainability professionals. The book follows a highly structured editorial framework with hundreds of entries presented in a consistent visual format. Responsibilities Copy text from Microsoft Word manuscripts into Canva templates Maintain consistent formatting throughout the document Ensure headings, tables, icons and section layouts remain aligned Check spelling, spacing, punctuation and formatting during transfer Flag any missing content or formatting inconsistencies Keep page layouts clean and visually balanced Follow an established page template exactly Essential Skills Excellent Canva experience Strong Microsoft Word skills Exceptional attention to detail Experience working with long documents or books Good understanding of typography and layout Ability to follow established design systems without improvising Reliable and organised Nice to Have Editorial or publishing experience Book production experience Experience working with style guides Knowledge of fashion or sustainability (helpful but not essential) Project Details Freelance / remote Immediate start Flexible hours Potential for several weeks (or longer) of ongoing work depending on progress Hundreds of pages requiring careful production work

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