Restaurant Manager – Hatted Level, 4 Days, Up to $130K+S, Sponsorship
- Full ownership of service delivery and floor culture
- Recruitment, training, and development of the front of house team
- Collaboration with the executive chef on service standards and guest experience
- Restaurant Manager opportunity at a stunning, genuine destination restaurant
- Full ownership of floor culture, service standards, and team development
- Regional lifestyle within commuting distance of Sydney
About the Venue
This is a stunning, brand new luxury venue, years in the making and backed by a significant investment from a well-known private identity. The premium accommodation opens alongside a fine dining restaurant with ambitions of earning two hats.
The design is refined without feeling pretentious, blending marble, brass, timber and beautiful tableware that pairs old-world elegance with handcrafted ceramics.
The restaurant offers an exceptional dining experience, with a separate bar offering, breakfast for hotel guests, room service, and future events and weddings. The kitchen is brand new with live fire cooking, and there is a kitchen garden on site. The food is produce-first, built on traditional technique, whole fish, seasonal vegetables, and country-driven refinement.
The restaurant trades seven days a week across two distinct formats. From Thursday to Sunday, it is open to the public. From Sunday night through Wednesday, it caters exclusively to hotel guests with a refined menu.
The cellar, already home to nearly $300,000 worth of wine, is intended to become one of the venue’s signature features.
The Role
This is the senior floor leadership role for the restaurant. As Restaurant Manager, you will work directly alongside the Executive Chef, not in a distant reporting relationship, but as a genuine partner, taking full ownership of the floor from opening.
That means building the front of house team, establishing service standards, developing training systems, and maintaining the culture through the intensity of launch and beyond. Across a seven-day operation spanning breakfast, tasting menu service, and hotel guest dining, the structure will extend beyond a single manager and assistant. You will lead it and shape it as the business finds its rhythm.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Full ownership of service delivery, floor culture, and guest experience
- Recruitment, training, and development of the front of house team
- Beverage programme support, including wine service across a significant cellar and a cocktail offering rooted in local produce
- Collaboration with the executive chef on pacing, plating, and the integration of floor and kitchen
- Management of reservations, guest communications, and private dining
- Rostering, labour management, and operational reporting
- Setting and holding the standard daily, not just at opening
Who This Person Is
Someone who understands what makes a room work. What makes service engaging, warm, unpretentious, and genuinely excellent. Not someone who learned service from a manual, but someone who has lived it and can feel the difference between a floor that hums and one that merely functions.
You have led teams in high expectation environments. You have trained people properly, held the line when it would have been easier to let it slide, and built culture that lasted beyond your tenure. You earn respect from the kitchen because you care as much as they do about what lands on the table and how it is received. You are not precious, but you are precise. You can read a room, adjust a sequence, rescue a wobble, and make a guest feel looked after without ever being overbearing.
You must drive. There is no public transport to this location, and that is non negotiable. Beyond that, you want to be part of building something, not looking for a stepping stone. Passion for produce, for hospitality done properly, and for a team that cares all matter here.
Benefits and Why You Will Thrive
- Salary from $100,000 to $130,000 plus superannuation, negotiable for the right person
- 4 Days
- Sponsorship available under 482 and 491 visa pathways. This is the first postcode outside Sydney with regional visa access
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