General Manager
Stamford, CT
Description of Position
The General Manager is responsible for managing the daily operations of our restaurant, including the selection, development and performance management of employees. In addition, they oversee the inventory and ordering of food and supplies, optimize profits and ensure that guests are satisfied with their dining experience.
Responsibilities:
- Commit to passionately, intensely, uncompromisingly humble hospitality and high-quality guest experience.
- Run successfully high-volume stores
- Eager to learn and grow with an expanding concept
- Help to create the systems, structure, and tools to support growth
- Has an entrepreneurial spirit-bring ideas and a point of view to the table, not just an ability to execute what are told to do
- Possess leadership skills- an ability to teach, coach and develop a large team, understanding that their success is your success.
- Share our love of great food and drinks
Why work with Barteca?
- Working with one of the fastest growing restaurant brands as noted by Restaurant Business Online. The Barteca brand is adding 4 restaurants this year and 8 next year with a promising long term growth plan.
- Working with proven hospitality visionaries who are culinary focused - food quality and standard is very high.
- Location flexibility as the company continues to grow
- Competitive Base Salary
REPORTING STRUCTURE
The General Manager will report to Don Bailey, Area Director for Barcelona Wine Bar. .
Qualifications:
- Mindful to guest needs, strong sense of urgency that can respond quickly
- Ability to handle interruptions and distractions without losing focus on details
- Exceptional organizational & time management skills
- Effective communicator one-on-one or in front of large groups
Interested in learning more or know the right person? Email mandeep@hhcsearch.com
About the Company
Since 1996, Barcelona Wine Bar & Restaurant co-owners Sasa Mahr-Batuz and Andy Pforzheimer have been entertaining diners with flavorful small plates, daring design, and a welcoming atmosphere.
At Barcelona, we pride ourselves in preparing tapas both simple and elegant using the finest seasonal picks from local markets and unusual specialties from Spain and the Mediterranean. The flavors are bold and the ingredients speak for themselves. Barcelona also offers an extensive selection of wines from Spain and South America and is one of the largest importers of Spanish wines in the United States. Barcelona serves 40 wines by the glass and we are constantly expanding and refining our wine offerings.
Today, we are the largest Spanish restaurant group in the United States with six locations in Connecticut: Greenwich, Stamford, South Norwalk, Fairfield, New Haven, West Hartford as well as locations in Atlanta, GA, Brookline, MA, South End Boston, MA Washington, DC and Reston, VA.
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