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Butler Hospitality

Cloud kitchen F&B service for hotels

Restaurant Floor Manager

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
No salary listed
Junior
Los Angeles, CA, USA
In Person
Food Service & HospitalityFood & Beverage Operations Management

About the job

Requirements
  • Two years of management experience is required.
  • Ability to communicate fluently in the local language and English of the workplace, verbally and nonverbally; English fluency is encouraged.
  • Food and beverage supervisory experience is required.
  • Understanding how the job responsibilities relate to other hotel areas and specific areas of food and beverage operations.
  • Ability to assist with management of all hub employees, including entertainment staff.
  • Availability to work any shift, any day, and long hours when necessary.
  • Experience hiring, training, and empowering employees while holding them accountable and providing consistent feedback.
  • Ability to foster productive peer relations and teamwork.
  • Guest service skills and ability to handle difficult or stressful situations with tact and diplomacy.
  • Ability to stand, walk, climb, balance, bend, stoop, kneel, or crawl frequently; talk or hear frequently; lift, push, or carry items up to 50 pounds; and work with frequent exposure to outside weather conditions.
  • Proof of vaccination is required upon job offer.
Responsibilities
  • Provide engaging leadership that inspires and empowers the team.
  • Set strategic direction for assigned departments.
  • Create a dynamic and positive work environment that represents the brand.
  • Ensure areas of accountability are executed to high standards and resources are properly utilized.
  • Oversee facilities and equipment in assigned areas to ensure they are in working order.
  • Maintain consistent, high-quality service standards in the assigned hub through training and feedback.
  • Ensure the quality of food items, service, and presentation.
  • Produce regular and special reports, and maintain required records and files.
  • Hire, train, motivate, and communicate with staff to deliver high-quality service and promote accountability.
  • Evaluate employee performance through operational audits and improve service; build reward and recognition systems.
  • Propose staff changes in assigned areas, including hiring, promotion, demotion, vacations, leaves of absence, and release of staff.
  • Create an encouraging atmosphere that motivates employees and supports acceptable turnover, absenteeism, and promotion levels.
  • Communicate with partner departments and peers to achieve customer satisfaction and efficient use of manpower and facilities.
  • Maintain working relationships with other departments and their leaders to promote feedback, cross-training, and efficient operations.
  • Manage difficult or emotional customer situations, respond promptly to customer needs, solicit feedback to improve service, and respond to requests for assistance.
  • Resolve conflict constructively, maintain confidentiality, listen without interrupting, keep emotions under control, remain open to ideas, welcome feedback, and contribute to a positive team spirit.
  • Treat people with respect, keep commitments, inspire trust, act with integrity, and uphold organizational values.
  • Make timely, sound decisions; explain reasoning and involve appropriate people in decision-making.
  • Demonstrate accuracy and thoroughness, seek ways to improve quality, apply feedback, and monitor work quality.
  • Follow instructions and management direction, take responsibility, keep commitments, arrive consistently and on time, and ensure responsibilities are covered when absent.

About the company

Butler Hospitality built and operated cloud-kitchen delivery for hotels by taking over underused hotel kitchens and turning them into centralized production hubs that prepared and dispatched meals to a network of partner hotels. For hotels with existing restaurants it managed food and beverage operations; for limited-service hotels it offered a virtual room service option for full-service meals, with meals delivered by Butler staff and billed directly to rooms. The model aimed to achieve economies of scale by pooling demand across properties, delivering higher quality meals at lower costs, and integrating with hotel systems for seamless, fee-free direct-to-room billing. It grew to serve hundreds of hotels in cities like New York, Chicago, Miami, and San Francisco, including brands such as Marriott, Hilton, and Hyatt, before ceasing operations in May 2022 due to a mix of market pressures and internal challenges.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$68.3M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2015

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What believers are saying

  • Premtim Gjonbalic launched Promise Hospitality in March 2026, validating the hotel-dining playbook.
  • Hotel room-service outsourcing remains attractive for limited-service properties without kitchens.
  • The Butler model reduced labor duplication across multiple nearby hotels.

What critics are saying

  • Butler dissolved on May 13, 2022; no operating business remains.
  • TechCrunch reported about 1,000 layoffs and liquidation of lease obligations.
  • WARN-class-action claims unpaid wages and notice failures expose severance liabilities.

What makes Butler Hospitality unique

  • Butler centralized hotel room service into shared kitchens across nearby properties.
  • It integrated direct-to-room billing and uniformed delivery for Marriott, Hilton, and Hyatt.
  • It sold outsourced food-and-beverage operations, not consumer ghost kitchens.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • 401(k) Company Match
  • Flexible Work Hours
  • Meal Benefits
  • Commuter Benefits
  • Professional Development Budget

Company News

QSR Magazine
Jan 9th, 2023
Should Restaurants Still Believe in Ghost Kitchens? | QSR magazine

Butler Hospitality, which was created in 2016, raised $50 million in funding, and provided room services to numerous hotels from central kitchens, shuttered in July 2022.

TechCrunch
Jul 8th, 2022
Butler Shows Hundreds Of Employees The Door After Raising $50M For Room Service Delivery

On May 16, Butler Hospitality, an on-demand platform for room service and amenities, sent an email to vendors that might have been considered reassuring under other circumstances. “We are writing to inform you [that] room service and catering services will continue as is. All collateral is still functional,” the email read. “We appreciate your loyalty to sticking with us through these times.”. The trouble was, Butler’s roughly-1,000-person workforce had been laid off just days earlier. In fact, most were told that the company had been dissolved — according to interviews TechCrunch had with a number of former employees, and corroborated in a report last week by industry blog Restaurant Dive

Ocean Drive
Jan 27th, 2022
Butler Hospitality partners with Boucher Brothers

Butler Hospitality has teamed up with Miami-based Boucher Brothers to deliver food and drink offerings right to your beach chair.

Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute
Dec 12th, 2021
Platformventures invested into Butler Hospitality in $35M on Jan 1st 21'.

In 2021, Butler Hospitality raised US$ 35 million from Shamrock Holdings, Inc., Mousse Partners, Platform Ventures, and Maywic Select Investments.

FinSMEs
Nov 1st, 2021
Butler Raises $32M in Funding

Butler Hospitality, a New York-based hospitality technology company, raised $32M in funding. The round, which brought total funding north of $50M, was led by Shamrock Holdings, Maywic Select Investments, Platform Ventures, and Mousse Partners. Led by Premtim Gjonbalic, Founder and CEO, Butler provides an hospitality network with technology designed to foster community and connect travelers with […]