Full-Time

Restaurant Floor Manager

Butler Hospitality

Butler Hospitality

201-500 employees

Cloud kitchen F&B service for hotels

No salary listed

Los Angeles, CA, USA

In Person

Category
Operations & Logistics (1)
Required Skills
Customer Service

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Requirements
  • Two years of management experience is required.
  • Fluent verbal and nonverbal communication in the local workplace language and English is required; fluency in English is encouraged.
  • Exceptional professional oral and written communication skills are required.
  • Food and Beverage supervisory experience is required.
  • Understanding of how the job responsibilities relate to other hotel areas and specific Food and Beverage operations is required.
  • Ability to assist with managing all hub employees, including entertainment staff, is required.
  • Ability to work any shift, any day, and long hours when necessary is required.
  • Recognized experience hiring, training, and empowering employees while providing consistent feedback is required.
  • Ability to foster productive relationships with peers and make teamwork the prevailing way of doing business is required.
  • Excellent guest service skills and the ability to handle difficult or stressful situations with tact and diplomacy are required.
  • Ability to stand, walk, climb, balance, bend, stoop, kneel, or crawl frequently is required.
  • Ability to talk or hear frequently is required.
  • Ability to lift, push, or carry items weighing up to 50 pounds is required.
  • Frequent exposure to outside weather conditions is required.
  • Proof of vaccination is required upon job offer.
Responsibilities
  • Provide engaging leadership that inspires and empowers the team.
  • Set the strategic direction for the departments of responsibility.
  • Create a dynamic and positive work environment that represents the brand.
  • Ensure areas of accountability are executed at uncompromised levels and resources are properly utilized.
  • Oversee facilities and equipment in the responsible areas to ensure they are fully operational.
  • Maintain consistent, high-quality service standards in the assigned hub through effective training and feedback mechanisms.
  • Ensure high quality of food items, service, and presentation.
  • Produce regular and special reports and maintain required records and files.
  • Hire, train, motivate, and provide ongoing communication to staff to deliver first-class service and promote accountability.
  • Evaluate employee performance through operational audits to improve convention services and build reward and recognition systems.
  • Propose staff changes in assigned areas, including hiring, promotion, demotion, vacations, leaves of absence, and staff release.
  • Create an encouraging atmosphere that motivates employees and supports acceptable turnover, absenteeism, and promotion levels.
  • Communicate with partnering departments and peers to achieve customer satisfaction and efficient utilization of manpower and facilities.
  • Maintain close working relationships with other departments and their leaders to promote feedback, cross-training, and efficient operations.

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

  • Butler raised over $50 million by October 2021 from Shamrock and Mousse.
  • It expanded into Chicago, Miami, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. by 2022.
  • Major hotel brands like Marriott, Hilton, and Hyatt validated demand before collapse.

What critics are saying

  • Butler dissolved on May 13, 2022, erasing jobs and customer contracts.
  • Kelly Buerger's June 2022 WARN class action targeted unpaid layoffs and notice failures.
  • Union arbitration at Radisson JFK forced Butler subcontracting out, signaling existential labor resistance.

What makes Butler Hospitality unique

  • Butler centralized hotel kitchens, bundling room service across nearby properties in 2021.
  • It integrated directly with hotel property systems for direct-to-room billing and fast delivery.
  • Unlike third-party delivery, Butler controlled menus, cooking, and uniformed staff end-to-end.

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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.

PhocusWire
Oct 28th, 2021
Butler Hospitality nabs $35M to grow hotel “ghost kitchen” concept

The Series B round brings the total funding of Butler Hospitality – one of PhocusWire’s Hot 25 Startups for 2019 – to $55 million.