Premium Catering Manager
RS3 Strategic Hospitality - Manager
Dallas , TX
Food/Beverage Management
$55,000 - $60,000 / year
0
3
days ago
Proof of the Pudding is a chef-led hospitality company delivering food and beverage experiences at some of North America’s most complex sports, entertainment, cultural, and live-event venues.
Founded in Atlanta in 1979, Proof has built a national reputation for doing hospitality differently — from-scratch cooking at scale, hyper-local sourcing, and a partnership-first approach that treats clients as collaborators, not contracts. The company serves professional and collegiate sports venues, convention centers, cultural institutions, and large-scale destination events across the United States and Internationally.
Founded in Atlanta in 1979, Proof has built a national reputation for doing hospitality differently — from-scratch cooking at scale, hyper-local sourcing, and a partnership-first approach that treats clients as collaborators, not contracts. The company serves professional and collegiate sports venues, convention centers, cultural institutions, and large-scale destination events across the United States and Internationally.
Responsibilities:
- Overseeing and effectively managing all day-to-day duties to ensure that each event is executed flawlessly from start to finish.
- Oversee the planning, execution, and financial performance of all non-game day catering operations, ensuring exceptional food quality, service standards, and client satisfaction.
- Maintains a safe, secure, and healthy environment by establishing, following, and enforcing sanitation standards and procedures; complying with legal regulations; securing revenues; and maintaining security systems.
- Responsible for communication between Proof of the Pudding and the client. Serves as the first point of contact for all sales inquiries from the client. Responsible for nurturing this relationship.
- Meets venue financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
- Communicating financial statements, Reports, and other requested documents to provide Proof of the Pudding Corporate.
- Managing existing and developing leadership teams, encouraging growth and mentorship with all managers and hourly staff
- Organizing frequent meetings and open lines of communication with sales, operations, concessions, and culinary team in preparation for each event.
- Responsible for setting the precedence that all staff will follow including but not limited to uniform expectations, customer service policies, uniformity in buffet aesthetics and creating a positive and productive workplace culture
- Responsible for oversight of all product ordering and logistics.
- Managing the team that is scheduled to run each event. Leading by example and developing employees to reach their full potential.
- Attending and executing each event to ensure that it runs smoothly from the set-up to the break-down.
- Enhances department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments
- Performs other related duties as needed
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital or veteran status, or any other protected class.