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Food & Beverage Manager

AC Hotel Kansas City Plaza

560 Westport Road
Kansas City, MO 64111

Hotel with 123 Rooms
Managed By HHM Hotels
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Full-Time

Opportunity: Food and Beverage Manager

Effectively lead and manage the staff and operations of the food and beverage department, ensuring the delivery of superior food and beverage menu items and services that will provide guests with a memorable experience. Take ownerships of the financial aspects of operations pertaining to the role, while creating a work environment consistent with our values.

Your Growth Path

Food and Beverage Director

Your Focus

  • Interview, select, train, schedule, coach and support associates, ensuring they perform in accordance with established brand or hotel standards and consistent with HHM core values.
  • Monitor product quality and guest satisfaction in food and beverage outlets, ensuring food quality is consistent, appealing, and prepared according to recipe and to guest specifications.
  • Ensure the restaurant complies with sanitation and safety standards for guests and associates.
  • Visually inspect and take action to ensure the appearance of facilities is appealing and attractive to guests.
  • Effectively deal with internal and external customers with a high level of patience, tact and diplomacy.
  • Ensure all equipment is in working order.
  • Participate in marketing efforts of the restaurants as directed.
  • Interact with guests to obtain feedback on quality of service and food in outlet.
  • Document inventory, forecast usage and monitor supply so restaurants are adequately stocked with linen, glassware, silverware, china, condiments, in order to provide service.
  • Abide by all regulations and requirements pertaining to serving alcoholic beverages.
  • Follow sustainability guidelines and practices related to HHM’s EarthView program.
  • Practice safe work habits, wear protective safety equipment and followMSDS and OSHA standards.
  • Perform other duties as requested by management.

Your Background and Skills

  • Prior management experience in restaurants required.

Work Environment and Context

  • Work schedule varies and may include working varied shifts, holidays and weekends.
  • Requires ability to navigate throughout the restaurant and kitchen, lifting up to 50 pounds, bending and reaching, stooping, kneeling, or crouching.
  • Ability to effectively communicate with guests and associates verbally and in writing.

What We Believe

People Are Our Capability – Hearts That Serve – Only Excellence – Stay Nimble - Own It

Posted February 13, 2026

About AC Hotel Kansas City Plaza

Stay Smart in Stylish at AC Hotel Kansas City Plaza

Located in the heart of the Historic Westport District, AC Hotel Kansas City Plaza combines modern comfort with European-inspired style. Just steps from the KC Streetcar and 0.7 miles from Saint Luke's Hospital, 1.7 miles from KU Medical Center and 10 min drive from University Health Truman Medical Center. Our location is ideal for business and leisure. Nearby you'll find museums & art spaces that only need 4 min drive and 10–15 unique thrift & antique shops are within walking distance. Our rooms feature sleek wood floors, Smart TVs, USB outlets & complimentary Wi-Fi. The meeting space includes a microwave and mini fridge for added convenience. Our free shuttle covers destinations within a 3-mile radius. Enjoy a European-style breakfast at AC Kitchen, unwind with cocktails and small plates at the AC Lounge and take advantage of our happy hour specials. When searching for hotels Kansas City Plaza visitors love, AC Hotel delivers a perfect blend of location, style and comfort—making every stay memorable.

About HHM Hotels

An Industry Leader in Hospitality

HHM Hotels is the preferred operator to many sophisticated and institutional owners of hotel real estate, including public and private owners, across the United States and Canada. We are known for consistent outperformance in operating results, the stability of our managed portfolio and operating teams, and our unrelenting focus on people, processes, and technology. HHM Hotels is tireless in delivering results and working closely with our owners across a portfolio of 240 hotels and over $2BN in managed revenues in the United States and Canada.

MANAGEMENT

For the past 30 years, HHM Hotels has focused on building out specific and differentiated capabilities and technology to serve our owners and drive industry-leading results in the areas of revenue generation, cost management, service delivery, and associate development and retention. In particular, we have focused on developing proprietary data, processes, and business systems to drive advantage and maintain our unwavering focus on results across every aspect of our managed hotels.

INVESTMENT

HHM Hotels has a highly active and productive investment team that seeks to leverage our operating capabilities and market knowledge to source, underwrite, and introduce deals to our stable of industry-leading investment partners. We have helped put together dozens of related deals and focus carefully on potential operational efficiencies, brand or market repositioning opportunities, and other ways that we can find value through our extensive market knowledge, operating capabilities, and in-house legal, asset management, and risk management teams.

BRAND POSITIONING

Our experience with branded and independent hotels allows us to quickly determine the brand positioning within a local market to ensure the highest operational profitability. We understand the demands of hotel openings and rebranding because we’ve been on the ground to lead them, from Forbes Five-Star property openings and global product launches to corporate rebranding projects around the world.

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