Supervisor - Japanese fine dining front of house

Roji - seasonal Japanese omakase menus, served in an intimate space, launched in July 2022. Husband and wife chef team Tamas Naszai and Tomoko Hasegawa will be creating weekly and daily menus which show off the best of British produce all prepared with Japanese delicacy and refinement. The restaurant consists of 10 seats, all at a sushi-style counter at which customers will enjoy an exciting meal of beautiful Japanese food.

To help with this we now seek a front-of-house supervisor to help serve customers, stock up on drinks, and run the service.

The candidate will preferably have Japanese food and drink experience, be comfortable working in a high-end Japanese fine dining environment and be flexible, smart, charismatic and engaging.

The restaurant will do five dinner services (Tuesday to Saturday) and 4 lunch services (Wednesday to Saturday starting later on in 2022). Sunday and Monday are closed, these days you will always be off work.

Duties

Prep the restaurant before service, cleaning, setting up the space, polishing glasses and general help for the chefs.
Bar drink prep, garnishes, tea service prep and organising a small bar space.
Assisting both back and front of house during service
Glass cleaning and drinks service for customers.

Personal skills and character

Organised and pro-active
Presentable, smart and tidy appearance
Japanese language and culture knowledge
Japanese drinks and food knowledge
Humble and approachable
Able to work in a small team
Happy to work independently when necessary
High levels of attention to detail
Training will be given in drinks and food knowledge, but this will be expected to be retained and delivered when customers need help and have questions

Holidays will be taken in August and December when the restaurant will be closed.

£11-£12.50 per hour. Pay will be made up of basic pay + service charge. There may also be some cash tips that can be shared at the teams discretion.