Assistant Restaurant General Manager

Wit & Wisdom Sonoma is Chef Michael Minas first venture into wine country dining and delivers Minas signature flair with a highly curated culinary experience perfect for any time of day. This charming wine country tavern offers American comfort food and a robust wine list nestled in the heart of Sonoma. The restaurant features regional California cuisine cooked on a hearth oven, buoyed by a magnificent wine program as only MINA delivers. Whether enjoying the bocce ball court, the happy hour experience, or a celebratory dinner with friends, Wit Wisdom is the ideal dining experience for visitors and locals who are looking for a different type of tasting room in wine country.

Plan and manage the Restaurant and Lounge in order to achieve customer satisfaction, quality service, compliance with corporate/franchise policies and procedures and federal, state and local regulations while meeting/exceeding financial goals. It may require additional oversight of hotel food and beverage operations. Recommends promotional ideas and procedural changes. Prepares forecasts, implements, monitors and controls the budgets for the various outlets.

• Implement and manage all company programs (company/franchise) to ensure compliance with the SOPs; to include safety and sanitary regulation, all federal, state and local regulations to ensure optimal levels of quality service and hospitality are provided to the guest.
• Market the Food and Beverage outlets; develop and manage the implementation of menus, package deals, promotions, displays, decorations and presentations within corporate guidelines to capture more in-house guests and a larger share of the local market to meet/exceed sales and financial goals and objectives.
• Manage the maintenance/sanitation of the food and beverage areas and equipment in the hotel to protect the asset, comply with regulations and ensure quality service.
• Resolve customer complaints, as appropriate, to maintain a high level of customer satisfaction and quality.
• Requires advanced knowledge of the principles and practices within the food profession. This includes experiential knowledge required for management of people and/or complex problems and food and beverage management.
• Excellent comprehension for assisting with guest and associate matters. Interpreting instructions from superiors.
• Must have excellent oral communication for communicating with guests and associates, issuing instructions and communicating policies.
• Excellent comprehension required to read and implement policies and procedures; writing schedules and reading forecast and SOPs.

Education/Formal Training

Four-year college degree or equivalent education/experience.

Experience

Four to five years of employment in a related position with this company or other organization(s).

Knowledge/Skills

• Requires advanced knowledge of the principles and practices within the food and beverage/hospitality profession.
• This includes experiential knowledge required for management of people, complex problems and food and beverage management.
• Ability to analyze activities or information and arrive at logical conclusions.
• Requires supervisory/management communication skills.
• Excellent communication skills due to telephone and face-to-face interaction with guests, corporate office and associates.
• Good speaking skills for guest, corporate, vendor and associate interaction 100% of work day.
• Written guest communication, administrative responsibilities and Human Resource responsibilities requires excellent reading and writing abilities 100% of the work day.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Limited physical requirements in order to assist various outlets during peak business demands (i.e., banquet room turns, restaurant bussing, etc.).
• Bending/kneeling -as directed above.
• Physical ability to supervise on-floor activities required 60% of work day. No continuous standing.
• Climbing Stairs -up to 20 steps 20%of work day.
• No driving required.
• Chemicals/Agents Limited access in the course of supervising the sanitation of the operation.

Environment

Inside 90% of work day. Due to responsibility of total operation, specifically sanitation standards, position requires 10% of work day inspecting various walk-in-coolers, temperatures ranging as low as 30 degrees. Chemicals/Agents -Limited access in the course of supervising the sanitation of the operation