Food & Beverage Manager

Company: 1880 Train

Department: F&B

FLSA Status: Exempt

Job Status: Full-Time

Travel Requirements: No Travel

Positions Supervised: Yes

Reports To: General Manager

Location: South Dakota Attraction Campus

1880 Train is seeking an experienced, results-driven, and people-focused Food & Beverage Manager to join our leadership team. This position will play a key role in overseeing food and beverage operations across multiple departments and service areas within one of our high-volume, family-friendly entertainment and attraction properties.

This position will serve as a key member of the property's leadership team, providing strategic direction, operational oversight, and hands-on support across multiple food and beverage operations. Beyond traditional departmental management, this role will collaborate closely with the General Manager and other department leaders to drive operational excellence, strengthen team performance, maximize profitability, and ensure an exceptional guest experience throughout the property.

The Food & Beverage Manager will be responsible for leading and developing departmental management teams, maintaining operational consistency, managing labor and inventory costs, ensuring food quality and safety standards, and identifying opportunities for process improvements and revenue growth. This individual will also play an active role in broader property operations, supporting cross-departmental initiatives, staffing strategies, guest satisfaction, and overall business objectives.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on, highly engaged hospitality leader with demonstrated experience managing multiple operational areas in a fast-paced, high-volume environment. This individual should possess strong business acumen, sound decision-making skills, and the ability to lead through others while balancing day-to-day operational needs with long-term organizational goals. Success in this role requires a proactive leadership approach, strong collaboration across departments, and the ability to confidently support property-wide operations and leadership initiatives.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBLITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Recruit, hire and train food & beverage personnel.
• Supervisory responsibilities to include directly supervising 20-35 employees in the Food & beverage department. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving conflicts between employees.
• Provide consistently excellent, safe food and beverages for all customers.
• Develop, control, and receive approval on all variations from budget from Director of Operations and General Manager of annual Food & beverage department budgets.
• Ensure compliance among all Food & beverage department employees of all company customer service and safety procedures.
• Maintain an ethical environment among employees that is always beyond reproach.
• Develop, implement and maintain an effective departmental facilities and equipment maintenance program.
• Ensure an all-employee effort to make and keep customers for life.
• Must get along well with fellow employees and maintain a professional business relationship at all times.
• Must work at a rapid pace.
• Must help in other departments/areas as requested by management.
• Must maintain a regular and reliable level of attendance at the job.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Language Skills to include the ability to read, analyze, and interpret the most complex documents. Ability to respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries or complaints.
• Reasoning Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
• Educational Requirements to include a two-year certificate from college or technical school, or three years related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Serv Safe must become Serv Safe certified within 60 days of signing job description.

• Serv Safe Manager Certification or equivalent food safety management certification.
• Experience in…