Maitre d' Café Americain - Amsterdam

Maitre d' Café Americain - Amsterdam

Clayton Hotel Amsterdam American Amsterdam

• Fulltime
• MBO
• 2 - 5 Years of experience
• Language: NL
• Managing
• Bar / Restaurant / Roomservice

Maitre d’ Café Americain

We have a fantastic new vacancy for a Maitre d’ at the fabulous Café Americain. Ramses Shaffy drank his beer, Harry Mülisch read the newspaper and Mata Hari held her wedding dinner here. An opportunity to work in Amsterdam’s famous Art Deco restaurant, which is part the Clayton Hotel Amsterdam American.

As Maitre d’, it is up to you to make every guest and employee feel special. You are the face of Café Americain and you know how to keep the atmosphere and quality of Café Americain high every day. By constantly interacting with your team, you are always aware of everything that is going on at Café Americain.

Objective of the Role

Reporting to the Deputy General Manager, the Maitre d’ will manage Café Americain and take full ownership of its service operations. You maintain a proper overview of the accurate planning and you assure that the entire team is accordingly trained and happy in their roles

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• People leadership, including recruiting, retaining and developing employees;
• Set targets for the restaurant team in line with the overall departmental and hotel objectives;
• Manage the budget and cost effectiveness of the department;
• Maintaining the highest standards on Health & Safety;
• Assuring correct planning to the business.

Requirements

• Previous managerial experience in a high volume/ fast paced restaurant environment;
• Excellent Leadership skills;
• Experience in recruiting and developing employees;
• High standards and attention to detail;
• An excellent focus on our customers and our team;
• Excellent communication skills;
• Dutch language is preferable.

What you can expect from us

• Competitive salary based on experience;
• A dynamic, nice and amicable work environment;
• Discount on overnight stays and F&B in the hotels across Ireland, UK, Germany & the Netherlands;
• Extra day holiday per year you work in the company (with a maximum of 5);
• Capacity for own creativity and initiative;
• Training and career opportunities through our enormous Dalata Academy;
• Inhouse experience after probation period.

About our culture

Dalata Hotel Group – Ireland’s largest hotel group has a number of exciting positions on the horizon. As Dalata continues to grow and expand in Ireland, the Ukand continental Europe it’s more important than ever to have the right team alongside us, in the near future we will be opening the doors of new hotels creating many jobs and investing millions in the Irish and UK economy.

We lead through our Dalata values of “Our People, Our Fairness, Our Service and Our Individuality”. If you have the right attitude and energy you will have great opportunities to progress within the group. Our company is a place where you can do great things – individually and as a team. You will have the opportunity to develop your talent, be recognised and rewarded for your commitment and pursue a fulfilling career. We also have a number of unique and recognised training programmes to aid your professional and personal development and pride ourselves on creating an objective, supportive and fair working environment for our employees.

Dalata Hotel Group Plc is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

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1. Maitre d' Café Americain

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