Director of Food & Beverage

About The Opportunity

This is more than a leadership role—it’s an opportunity to shape the culinary identity of an iconic hotel. As Director of Food & Beverage at the Mining Exchange Hotel, you’ll bring vision to life across dining, bars, events, and guest experiences. You’ll lead talented teams, elevate standards, and leave a lasting mark on a destination where history, culture, and hospitality intersect.

About The Hotel

Mining Exchange Hotel was built in 1902 as a stock exchange for local mining companies, The Mining Exchange Hotel offers a one-of-a-kind experience in the heart of downtown Colorado Springs. Our elegant, yet casual public spaces, and guestrooms are all newly renovated.

Job Role

Responsible for overall operation of all food and beverage departments including culinary; delivering quality service, compliance of policies and procedures while meeting/exceeding financial goals. Manage all administrative functions such as scheduling, purchasing for the department, hiring and terminations of associates all in a fiscally responsible manner. Works closely with catering and convention services.

Responsibilities:

• Accomplish food & beverage human resource objectives by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining associates; communicating job expectations, job duties and job responsibilities; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions; planning and reviewing compensation actions; enforcing policies and procedures.
• Achieve food and beverage operational objectives by contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; determining system improvements; implementing change.
• Meet food and beverage financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
• Avoid legal challenges by conforming to the regulations of the alcoholic beverage commission.
• Maximize bar profitability by ensuring portion control; monitoring accuracy of charges.
• Publicize the food and beverage by designing and placing advertisements; inviting food editors to review the food and beverage; contacting local, regional, and national magazines with feature ideas; encouraging local businesses to hold social events at the food and beverage.
• Ensure Culinary operation is functioning efficiently following menu specifications, recipes, and product quality ensuring consistency and level of quality expected.
• Maintain safe, secure, and healthy environment by establishing, following, and enforcing sanitation standards and procedures; supervise the maintenance of food and beverage equipment to protect the assets, while securing revenues and complying with legal regulations and ensure quality service.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
• Investigate, resolve, respond to guest needs, inquires, comments and/or problems to ensure a quality experience and enhance future sales prospects.
• Update the cash management system and compile, generate and prepare various reports to aid in the administration of the Food and beverage.
• Perform Manager-on-Duty functions and shifts as assigned.

Basic Qualifications & Skills

• Two to four-year college degree or equivalent education/experience.
• Minimum of four years’ experience in a food & beverage leadership role or related management position.
• Ability to perform critical analysis and manage a wide range of information. 
• Requires advanced knowledge of business and management principles and practices involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
• Possess excellent oral, written and presentation skills. 
• Ability to delegate, manage manpower and organize complex projects and establishes priorities consistent with department/hotel objectives. 
• Listen effectively. 
• Demonstrated experience leading teams to achieve and exceed goals
• Comprehensive knowledge of food and beverage preparation, service standards, guest relations, and etiquette
• Prior experience developing and implementing plans to ensure a safe work environment in compliance with appropriate regulations (i.e. – Ergonomics, Emergency Response, Injury and Illness Prevention, and Hazard Communication Plans)
• Communicate to both, guests and fellow team members and team leaders, professionally and positively.

Desired Qualifications & Traits

• Bachelors degree in hospitality, business, or related field
• Effective communication and ability to resolve conflict
• Projects professional image that inspires trust and confidence
• Enthusiastic and positive energy
• Multi-tasking ability
• Inspires others to achieve excellence

Physical Requirements

• Able to lift up to 30 lbs.
• Able to bend, stretch, and twist
• Able to stand for long periods of time

Job Type: FLSA Designation: Full Time-Exempt

Compensation: $95,000 - $105,000 salary range -annually paid on a biweekly basis 

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• Hospital indemnity insurance

About The Company

Practice Hospitality manages hotels differently. A growing company with opportunities for advancement, we infuse hotels with style, spirit, and soul. We inspire, innovate and advocate. We deliver results and do well by our owners because we respect the individuality that we all bring to the table, the connectedness of our world and the impact we have on our community.

We are looking for someone who thinks big because, at Practice Hospitality, we value creativity, emotional intelligence, problem solving and innovation. This is an opportunity to be an integral part of a team that supports one another, is empowered, and holds themselves accountable. If you bring your A game every day and pursue excellence with tenacity, we want to invest in your professional and personal growth. But, more than anything, we are looking for good humans who care; about our guests, each other and making every moment together enriching, fulfilling and fun.