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About the Role
The Beverage Director is responsible for ensuring the excellence, creativity, brand promise, and profitability of the bar and beverage programs. This role serves as a leader, educator, coach, and mentor to the Bar and Service Teams, inspiring skills that elevate the core values and mission of USHG. You will collaborate with Senior leadership on decisions impacting the financial health of the business, ensuring alignment with company culture and policies.
Responsibilities
- Cultivate a culture of Enlightened Hospitality for all stakeholders that supports business objectives and growth.
- Partner with the management team to lead the service staff in ensuring unparalleled hospitality for every guest.
- Find opportunities for Beverage to open doors to Hospitality and dialogue between guests and businesses.
- Guide teams in discovering ways to ‘find the yes’ for guests in a manner that upholds the integrity of USHG operations.
- Use Beverage to actively drive cover counts and introduce new guests to the brand, encouraging existing guests to return.
- Consistently look for internal and external opportunities to build the growing team.
- Foster a positive, collaborative work environment for both service and kitchen teams, ensuring clear communication.
- Educate the Service Team on beer, spirits, cocktail, and non-alcoholic beverage offerings to enhance guest experience and achieve financial goals.
- Ensure all end-of-period reports, inventories, and forecasts are completed accurately and on time.
- Ensure all beverage changes are executed properly with necessary communication and education.
- Ensure all POS systems, inventory systems, beverage lists, and related information are understood by the team and remain accurate.
- Maintain key relationships with other beverage/wine managers and directors across USHG, sharing best practices and learning.
- Perform due diligence, utilize strategy, and exercise exceptional judgment to ensure the best possible product at the most advantageous price.
Requirements
- 3+ years of restaurant beverage management experience
- Excellent Beverage knowledge – including beer, wine and spirits
- Excellent understanding of beverage inventory and cost management
- Excellent knowledge of restaurant service team roles
- Strong communication and people management skills
- Fluency in the English language
Skills
- Beverage knowledge
- Inventory management
- Cost management
- People management
- Communication
Location
- Union Square
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years of restaurant beverage management experience
Salary/Compensations
- $90,000 - $105,000
Benefits
- Competitive pay and bonus potential
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible spending options for healthcare and dependent care
- Generous paid time off
- Paid parental leave
- Matched 401(k) plan
- Life insurance
- Employee assistance programs
- Exclusive access to primary care, mental health, and other wellness services
- Access to the USHG HUGS Employee Relief Fund
- Annual dining credit
- 51% dining discount across the entire USHG family of restaurants
- Pre-tax commuter benefits for transit and parking
- Opportunities for learning, mentorship, and collaboration
About the Company
- Union Square Cafe’s seasonal cuisine draws inspiration from the kitchens and tables of Italy, France, and Northern California.
- Union Square Cafe—the flagship business that launched Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group—has been one of the country’s most beloved restaurants for over 40 years.
- In our second home on 19th Street, Union Square Cafe embodies the heartfelt passion and generosity that has been the restaurant’s calling card since we opened in 1985.
- Designed by Rockwell Group, our new home preserves the restaurant’s signature charm, intimacy, and familiarity in a fresh, contemporary dining environment.
- Union Square Cafe has won five James Beard Awards and earned Zagat Survey’s #1 ranking as New York’s Most Popular Restaurant an unprecedented nine times.
- At Union Square Hospitality Group, we believe our people are our greatest ingredient. Joining our team means becoming part of a culture rooted in care, creativity, and growth.
Equal Opportunity
- We play to win with humble swagger. Hospitality is a team sport where everyone deserves an opportunity to thrive and belong.
- Turn over the rocks and always be connecting dots to build uplifting experiences and relationships.
- Center the salt shaker with an unwavering commitment to excellence and the values that matter most.
- Write a great next chapter. The road to success is paved with mistakes well-handled.
- Bring a charitable assumption and err on the side of generosity.
- Leave our campsite better than we found it; always responsible for the impact of our wake.