Job description:
Café Manager
Employer: Victory Coffee + Kitchen
Location: Langley, BC (on-site)
Job Type: Permanent, Full-time
Hours: 37.5 hours/week (7.5 hours per day)
Compensation: $36.65 - $38.65 per hour
Start date: As soon as possible
Vacancies: 1
Language of work: English
NOC 2021 Codes:
- 60030 – Restaurant and food service managers (management and operations responsibilities)
About the role
Go Victory Café is a social enterprise café that mentors and provides skills training for individuals facing barriers to employment. We’re seeking a hands-on Café Manager to lead daily kitchen, and café operations, and support a small team in a fast-paced, guest-focused environment. At VCK, we seek out people for hire who reflect the mission and heart of our ministry. The successful candidate is motivated and organized individual who cares about managing as much as reaching the people with the Word of God.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee the daily flow and execution of the kitchen and front-of-house café operations.
- Manage dining room and barista station performance, ensuring hospitality and customer service standards are met.
- Plan, prepare, and adjust the daily menu; coordinate all VIP meals, special events, and catering.
- Train, coach, and support café and kitchen staff (including interns) while maintaining established standards of practice.
- Ensure food safety, sanitation, and quality standards; meet and exceed all health department requirements.
- Oversee ordering, receiving, inventory, and product rotation; manage costs and minimize waste.
- Create and manage weekly staff schedules; supervise daily assignments and performance.
- Support the mission of the café as a social enterprise by mentoring interns and team members to build employable skills.
- Participate in café marketing activities as needed (e.g., being filmed for promotional content).
Other Tasks
- Analyze budget to boost and maintain the restaurant’s profits
- Develop budget to determine cost of food, ingredients, alcohol, kitchen and cleaning supplies
- Evaluate daily operations
- Modify food preparation methods and menu prices according to the restaurant budget
- Monitor revenues to determine labour cost
- Monitor staff performance
- Plan and organize daily operations
- Recruit staff
- Set staff work schedules
- Supervise staff
- Train staff
- Determine type of services to be offered and implement operational procedures
- Conduct performance reviews
- Cost products and services
- Organize and maintain inventory
- Ensure health and safety regulations are followed
- Negotiate arrangements with suppliers for food and other supplies
- Negotiate with clients for catering or use of facilities
- Participate in marketing plans and implementation
- Leading/instructing individuals
- Address customers' complaints or concerns
- Provide customer service
- Manage events
- Plan, organize, direct, control and evaluate daily operations
Personal Suitability
- Accurate
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Flexibility
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Ability to multitask
- Worked in a Christian ministry or church
Employment conditions
- Not a remote position. Candidates outside BC should be willing to relocate to Langley, BC.
Education & Experience
- College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 3 months to less than 1 year
- 1 year to less than 2 years
Computer and technology knowledge
- Electronic cash register
- MS Excel
- MS Outlook
- MS Word
- Point of sale system
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Attention to detail
- Standing for extended periods
Benefits
- Dental plan
- Disability benefits
- Health care plan
- Paramedical services coverage
- Vision care benefits
- Free parking available
- Paid time off (volunteering or personal days)
How to apply
By email: recruitment@victorycoffeekitchen.ca
Application deadline: Posting open until filled
Who can apply to this job
Canadian citizens, permanent residents and candidates with a valid work permit are encouraged to apply.
