New Orleans Restaurant in Midtown Center Seeking General Manager!

Longshot Hospitality is now hiring a General Manager for Dauphine’s, located in Midtown Center Washington, DC. Join a team of passionate, talented restaurant professionals invested in providing an outstanding dining experience built around authentic New Orleans inspired food, high service standards, and warm hospitality.

Dauphine’s is a modern-day incarnation of the legendary Grande Dame establishments of New Orleans created by the award winning team that created The Salt Line. Led by Executive Chef Kristin Essig & Chef Partner Kyle Bailey, the spacious three level restaurant features both a raw bar and a Boucherie. Mezzanine dining provides a dramatic view of the dining room below, while outdoor diners can enjoy both formal dining or casual cocktail & small bite service.

For the beverage program, Dauphine’s joins forces with proprietor Neal Bodenheimer of Cure Co., New Orleans’ acclaimed cocktail-focused hospitality group whose eponymous flagship, Cure, was the 2018 winner of the James Beard Award for Outstanding Cocktail Program.

We are seeking a strong, creative, dynamic leader with high volume experience, a genuine love of hospitality, and great customer service skills to lead our team in the daily operations of the restaurant. You will hire and manage staff as well as maintain the restaurant’s profitability and quality controls with the rest of the management team. Finally, you will oversee the dining room while ensuring our guests have excellent experiences from the moment they walk in the door until we wish them well on the way out.

Benefits Offered:

• Be a part of a growing restaurant group 
• Competitive pay
• Bi-annual bonus structure
• Company sponsored health care plan
• Free monthly parking

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 2-3 years of relevant culinary management experience
• Professional, friendly, punctual, driven
• Drive to provide excellent positive guest experiences
• Team oriented mindset connecting the BOH & FOH staff
• Effective communicator that shares all issues with ownership
• Handle stress well and offer creative solutions to problems
• Open availability
• Must be able to stand for long periods of time
• Food Handler license, ABRA manager license, and Serve-Safe certificate required

Please submit a resume along with a few sentences about yourself explaining why you think you’d make a good member of our team. 

For more information, follow @Dauphinesdc on Instagram or visit dauphinesdc.com