Director of Food And Beverage

Wild Adventures Theme Park, located in Valdosta, Georgia, combines a theme park, water park, and animal park across 170 acres. It boasts one of the largest ride collections in the South, over 500 animals, Splash Island Water Park, and a variety of shows, festivals, and concerts. Owned by Herschend Family Entertainment (HFE), a leading family entertainment company with a half-century history, Wild Adventures focuses on creating fun-filled, memory-making experiences for all guests.

The park is committed to providing a welcoming environment and ensuring guests leave with smiles and deeper connections to one another.

This is a full-time, on-site role based in Valdosta, GA for the Director of Food and Beverage at Wild Adventures Theme Park. The Director of Food and Beverage is responsible for all Food and Beverage business strategies and operations at Wild Adventures Theme Park. This leader identifies trends and makes business decisions that position the food and beverage experience as a brand pillar and achieve all property objectives.

These include profitability, Guest experience, and a caring culture for our Hosts, all done in a manner consistent with the mission, values, operating philosophies and standards of Wild Adventures.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Responsible for advancing the passion and enthusiasm for food & beverage, culinary knowledge, foodie culture, leadership and technical skills and ability of the team and the overall guest food and dining experience.
• Provides Food & Beverage Team with big-picture vision, guidance, high level subject matter expertise, and clear standards.
• Delivers daily and long-term excellence in areas including financial results, operational execution, guest experience, Leading with Love, brand management, product delivery, and safety.
• Develops, establishes and implements plans and strategies to support both short and long-range growth and profitability of the Food & Beverage Division.
• Ensures department-specific operating competencies and standards are in place and effectively executed. Examples of such competencies include, but are not limited to, Food Safety and Sanitation, General Safety, Loss Prevention, Staffing, Cleanliness, Training, Speed of Service, Guest Service etc.
• Ensures department-specific product related competencies and standards are in place and effectively executed. Examples of such competencies include, but are not limited to, menu and recipe adherence, product quality, procurement, inventory management, pricing strategy, packaging and presentation, appropriate brand integration, etc.
• Maintains clear standards and holds team accountable.
• Provides General Manager with information, feedback and recommendations relating to F&B and its impact on the property-wide business.
• Effectively collaborates and coordinates with all resources and stakeholders within Wild Adventures, Property Support Center, other HFE properties, vendors, sponsors, industry leaders and third-party partners.
• Periodically evaluate and evolves organizational structure(s), and roles within the division as appropriate, to best support the achievement of the division’s full potential on an on-going basis, and to ensure that the division remains flexible and capable of absorbing growth and evolution of concept as new opportunities arise.
• Provides Food and Beverage team with effective and impactful leadership, coaching and development, guidance, accountability, and support.
• Provides Food and…