Lebanese Restaurant jobs in Dubai Marina

# Restaurant Manager — Lebanese Restaurant

**Full-time · UAE**

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## The role

We are hiring an experienced Restaurant Manager to run a Lebanese restaurant — floor, team, guest experience and numbers.

This is a hands-on role, not an office one. The restaurant trades across a long day and runs a delivery channel alongside dine-in, so we are looking for someone who can hold service standards through a heavy lunch peak and still be on the floor late at night. You will own the P&L below revenue: labour, controllables, service quality and the guest scores that drive repeat business.

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## What you'll own

**Floor and guest experience**

- Lead service personally — visible on the floor at peak, not behind a desk

- Set and enforce service standards, steps of service, and the hospitality tone of the room

- Handle guest recovery in the moment, and read a room before a problem becomes a review

- Own reservations, table turns, seating flow and waiting-time management

- Manage online reputation: reviews, response times and the operational fixes behind recurring complaints

**Commercial**

- Own labour cost against target — rostering to forecast, not to habit

- Control operating expenses: consumables, utilities, breakage, comps and voids

- Daily and weekly reporting on covers, average spend, spend per head and channel mix

- Work with the Head Chef on menu performance — which items sell, which carry margin, which should go

- Drive average spend through service technique and structured upselling, without pressure tactics

**Team**

- Recruit, onboard, train and retain the front-of-house team

- Build a shift-leader structure so the restaurant runs correctly on your day off

- Run daily briefings, product training and service standards sessions

- Manage schedules, leave, performance conversations and discipline fairly and by the book

- Hold the line between kitchen and floor — you are the one who makes that relationship work

**Delivery and off-premise**

- Manage aggregator platforms: menu accuracy, availability, pricing, promotions and dispatch times

- Own delivery and pickup performance — accuracy, packaging standards, order-to-door time, ratings

- Coordinate catering and large-order fulfilment without breaking dine-in service

**Systems and compliance**

- POS management, cash handling, daily reconciliation, float control and shrinkage prevention

- Full compliance with UAE food safety and licensing requirements, in coordination with the kitchen

- Health and safety, incident reporting, and audit readiness at any hour — not just on inspection day

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## What we're looking for

**Essential**

- Proven experience as Restaurant Manager or strong Assistant Manager ready to step up, in a full-service restaurant

- Middle Eastern or Lebanese restaurant experience, with genuine understanding of Arabic hospitality and how the guest expects to be treated

- Demonstrable commercial control — you can talk about labour percentage, average spend and cost lines you moved, with the numbers

- High-volume service experience; you stay calm and organised through a heavy peak

- Team building and retention track record — you have kept people, not just hired them

- Arabic and English, both fluent

- Comfortable with POS, rostering and reporting systems

**Strongly preferred**

- Pre-opening experience — you've built a team and set up systems from nothing before

- Experience managing a licensed lounge or late-night operation

- Delivery and aggregator management

- Catering and large-format event coordination

- UAE market experience, and an existing understanding of local hiring and licensing realities

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## What we offer

- Real ownership of the operation, with direct access to ownership and fast decisions

- Competitive package with a performance component tied to labour cost, guest satisfaction and sales

- Employment visa, medical insurance and annual leave as per UAE Labour Law

- The opportunity to shape the service culture from the start rather than inherit someone else's

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Pay: AED8,000.00 - AED12,000.00 per month

Application Question(s):

• Expected Salary ?
• Do you have lebanese restaurant experience ?
• Notice period

Work Location: In person