Assistant Restaurant Manager - Pan-Asian concept (Kuwait)

A 5-star luxury hotel is seeking an experienced Assistant Restaurant Manager to support the daily operations of a fine dining restaurant with a Pan-Asian cuisine concept . The ideal candidate must have strong luxury hotel experience, excellent leadership skills, and a solid understanding of refined restaurant service, guest engagement, and high-end dining standards.

Responsibilities

- Assist the Restaurant Manager in overseeing daily restaurant operations, ensuring smooth service flow and a premium guest experience

- Supervise, train, and motivate the restaurant team to deliver consistent luxury service standards

- Support the execution of fine dining service sequences, table management, guest recognition, and personalized service

- Ensure strong knowledge and presentation of the Pan-Asian cuisine concept, menu items, ingredients, and service style

- Monitor guest satisfaction, handle complaints professionally, and ensure effective service recovery when needed

- Conduct daily briefings, allocate duties, and monitor staff grooming, attendance, and performance

- Coordinate closely with the kitchen, bar, stewarding, hostess team, and other hotel departments to ensure seamless operations

- Maintain restaurant cleanliness, ambience, table setup, and overall presentation in line with luxury hotel standards

- Support upselling initiatives, revenue generation, cost control, inventory, breakage, and wastage management

- Ensure compliance with food safety, hygiene, health, safety, and hotel operating standards

- Assist with scheduling, training plans, reports, guest feedback analysis, and operational improvements

- Step in to manage restaurant operations in the Restaurant Managers absence

Requirements

- Minimum 3–5 years of experience in Food & Beverage operations, with at least 1–2 years in a supervisory or assistant management role

- Must have prior experience in luxury hotels

- Must have experience in fine dining restaurant operations

- Experience with Pan-Asian cuisine concepts is required

- Strong knowledge of luxury restaurant service standards, guest experience, and sequence of service

- Excellent leadership, communication, and team management skills

- Strong guest relations skills with a calm, professional, and solutions-focused approach

- Fluent in English; additional languages are an advantage

- Presentable, confident, detail-oriented, and service-driven

- Flexible to work according to business needs, including evenings, weekends, and holidays

- Familiarity with POS systems, reservation platforms, inventory control, and basic reporting is preferred

What's Offered

- Competitive monthly salary based on experience

- Employment visa and work permit sponsorship

- Accommodation

- Transportation

- Duty meals

- Paid holidays

- Standard benefits as per local labor law, including annual leave, end-of-service benefits, and medical insurance