Food and Beverage Manager

Reports To: General Manager / Property F&B Leader

Position Type: Full-Time, Exempt

The Chef & Beverage Manager is a hands-on Food & Beverage leader responsible for driving culinary execution, banquet and catering delivery, beverage programming, and front-of-house operating standards at AC Hotel Dallas Galleria.

This position is designed for a hospitality leader with a strong culinary foundation who understands that success in a branded, select-service hotel requires versatility. The ideal candidate has meaningful banquet or catering culinary experience, understands beverage operations, and is comfortable stepping beyond the kitchen to lead service, interact with guests, support events, and ensure consistent execution of Marriott and AC Hotels brand standards.

The Chef & Beverage Manager serves as the property's primary operational leader for food and beverage, balancing culinary quality, event execution, beverage performance, brand compliance, guest experience, team development, and profitability.

• Deliver consistent culinary and beverage experiences aligned with AC Hotels by Marriott brand standards.
• Lead successful culinary execution of banquet, catering, meeting and social events.
• Strengthen beverage programming, controls, profitability and team knowledge.
• Create stronger coordination between BOH, FOH and event operations.
• Build a flexible, cross-trained F&B team capable of supporting the operating model of a branded hotel.
• Improve F&B profitability through disciplined management of food cost, beverage cost, labor and operating expenses.
• Ensure Marriott standards, PHG operating expectations and local regulatory requirements are consistently executed.

• Lead day-to-day culinary operations, including food preparation, production, presentation, sanitation and quality control.
• Own culinary execution for banquet, catering and meeting events from BEO review through production and final service.
• Review upcoming BEOs and event forecasts to establish production quantities, prep plans, staffing requirements and purchasing needs.
• Ensure appropriate portioning, recipe adherence, presentation standards and event timing.
• Coordinate closely with sales, event and hotel leadership to anticipate special requests, dietary needs and operational challenges.
• Develop efficient production systems that support both daily outlet demand and fluctuating banquet volume.
• Maintain recipe, yield, food-cost and inventory controls.
• Ensure food safety, sanitation and health department requirements are consistently met.
• Lead the property's beverage program across applicable outlets, events and catering.
• Maintain beverage recipes, specifications, presentation standards and appropriate brand compliance.
• Manage beverage inventory, ordering, receiving and controls.
• Monitor beverage cost, purchasing and product movement to minimize waste and improve profitability.
• Train team members on beverage knowledge, responsible alcohol service, recipes, upselling and suggestive selling.
• Work with approved vendors and partners while maintaining Marriott and PHG beverage standards.
• Identify opportunities to increase beverage capture and average check through programming, promotions and stronger execution.

• Provide active FOH leadership during peak periods, events and other periods requiring management coverage.
• Establish a visible leadership presence in guest-facing F&B areas.
• Coach team members on service standards, menu knowledge, beverage knowledge, upselling and guest engagement.
• Address guest concerns quickly and appropriately.
• Ensure BOH production and FOH service operate as one coordinated team.
• Support opening, closing, cash-handling and…