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Restaurant Manager - Salt Wood Kitchen & Oysterette

Salt Wood Kitchen and Oysterette

3295 Dunes Drive
Marina, CA 93933

Restaurant
Managed By HHM Hotels
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Compensation: $75,000 to $80,000 per year, Full-Time

Opportunity: Restaurant Manager

Oversee management and direction of restaurant operations in accordance with established guest service and sustainability standards.

Your Growth Path

Food and Beverage Manager – 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.
  • Ensure that food quality is consistent, appealing, and prepared to guest specifications.
  • Interact with guests to obtain feedback on quality of service and food in outlet.
  • Ensure that the restaurant complies with sanitation and safety standards for guests and associates.
  • Resolve guest complaints and coordinate with other department leaders to resolve service delivery or quality breakdowns.
  • Check that all equipment is in working order.
  • Follow up on work orders so repairs and maintenance of the facility are completed on a timely basis.
  • Interact with guests to obtain feedback on quality of service and food in outlet.
  • Document inventory forecast usage and monitor supply.
  • Abide by all state, federal and corporate requirements pertaining to serving alcoholic beverages.
  • Oversee serving staff to ensure proper liquor controls are in place and all cash handling policies and procedures are followed. Comply with all accounting policies in order to ensure SOX compliance.
  • Participate in marketing efforts of restaurants, create menu ideas, survey competition and report food trends, and assist in preparation of specials.
  • Follow sustainability guidelines and practices related to HHM’s EarthView program.
  • Practice safe work habits, wear protective safety equipment and follow MSDS and OSHA standards.
  • Perform other duties as requested by management.

Your Background and Skills

  • Associate's degree preferred.
  • 3-6 years restaurant experience required.

Work Environment and Context

  • Work schedule varies and will include working on holidays, weekends and alternate shifts.
  • Requires standing for extended periods, walking, pushing, lifting up to 50 pounds, bending and reaching, stooping, kneeling, or crouching.

What We Believe

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

Posted May 14, 2026

About Salt Wood Kitchen and Oysterette

About Us

Welcome to Salt Wood – the culinary destination of the Monterey area. Salt Wood features three distinct dining environments - a full-service dining room, lively bar and lounge and al fresco dining patio. Our experiential oyster bar and central live-fire kitchen act as the heart and hearth of the restaurant. From cocktails on the patio to large group parties held in our multifunctional meeting space and private dining rooms, Salt Wood offers an experience like no other.

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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