Food & Beverage Manager

5 days ago


Ottawa, Canada Aquatopia Conservatory Full time

**FOOD & BEVERAGE MANAGER**

Nestled on 9.5 wooded hectares in the west end of Ottawa, Aquatopia Conservatory is a gorgeous award-winning wedding & events facility ranked by Wedding Bells magazine as one of Canada’s Top Ten Loveliest Venues, and the location for the Season 2 Finale for the internationally syndicated CTV reality TV series ‘Where To I Do?’, hosted by Canadian Designer Tommy Smythe.

Aquatopia’s unique contemporary architectural design, lush foliage, and aquatic features, create a year round indoor working ecosystem with a positive sense of place that make Aquatopia the ideal venue for weddings, private culinary events, parties, and celebrations.

Our team is a vibrant, diverse yet cohesive group who support, engage with one another, and thoroughly enjoy working together.

**Role Summary**:
The Aquatopia Food & Beverage Manager designs, coordinates, creates and executes all food & beverage elements for every Aquatopia event with one goal in mind: to ensure that every event is a success, delivering a high level of quality & service, and exceeding client expectations. The Aquatopia Food & Beverage Manager must demonstrate a willingness to manage all creative, planning, production, and administrative requirements with exceptional attention to detail and highly developed organizational skills.

**Roles and Responsibilities**:

- _Manage Service Staff: _ recruiting, scheduling, training, biannual job performance reviews, ensuring front-of-house employee development and safety. Plan, direct, and supervise food & bar service activities for a full service wedding & events venue.
- _Menu Development: _ work with our Executive Chef to develop & update menus & bar selections for all event styles produced at by Aquatopia. Meet with clients to discuss menu selections, lead food tasting events, and create custom menus when required.
- _Costing: _ collaborate with the Aquatopia Executive Chef to cost out menus, and source food ingredients that keep food costs at an acceptable level to ensure acceptable profit margins are met.
- _Quality Control: _ensure food quality and consistency standards are met, cleanliness of food service facilities are maintained, staff are properly trained & qualified, and administrative systems are accurate and complete.
- _Food Presentation_: create unique decorative plating options & food displays that delight and entertain our clients in order to to set Aquatopia apart from other venues in the wedding & events industry.
- _Safety and Sanitation: _ maintain an impeccably clean facility; oversee all repairs and scheduled maintenance of kitchen & food service equipment; work closely with Public Health Inspectors to ensure safety standards are met.
- Supply Management: coordinate systems for planning, purchasing, receiving and inventory of all food & beverage supplies required for the production of events at Aquatopia.
- _Leadership: _ lead by example and through continuous coaching to maintain a positive & professional workplace culture, and actively encourage a positive environment for continuous improvement.
- _Human Resources_: source, interview, hire (and if required, terminate), train and manage all staff needed to fulfill the front-of-house service needs of every Aquatopia hosted event.
- _Finance: _ Prepare & implement departmental budgets with regard to costing, payroll, expenses & capital expenditures, to be reviewed quarterly with the Aquatopia Executive; provide post-event reporting to monitor and track results.

**Skills/Competencies Qualifications**:

- A minimum of seven (7) years food industry experience, with at least five (5) years experience in a food & beverage management capacity in the wedding & events industry, or a major hotel or event venue.
- Strong knowledge and understanding of all aspects of food & hospitality sector.
- Must be an effective leader, manager, trainer, coach, and administrator with excellent organizational abilities and excellent interpersonal written & oral communication skills.
- Post secondary education and/or formal mentorship training in the culinary arts and/or hospitality. management.
- Strong social media skills and computer proficiency on all Apple devices.
- Confident in a leadership capacity with the ability to act calmly during adverse and unexpected circumstances.
- Effective at problem solving and decision-making with good insight and judgment.
- Strong initiative and client service orientation.
- Ability to use sound judgment, discretion and professional integrity.
- High energy, positive, professional attitude, pride in work.
- Business minded with an appreciation for the financial aspects of the food industry.
- Available for evening and/or weekend work.
- Must be able to multi-task in a busy environment, often with distractions.
- Must possess G2 driver’s licence.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: $68,500.00-$82,000.00 per year

Additional pay:

- Bonus pay

**Benefits**:

- Discounted or free food



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