Required Years of Experience
3 years
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Sempre Oggi - Modern Italian - Fine Dining Restaurant | New York, NY
Are you passionate about hospitality and ready to lead with heart, vision, and precision? We’re looking for a Service Director to join our team and help shape the guest experience at our modern Italian restaurant.
After one successful year in operation, we are excited to expand our management team with the goal of reaching even higher. This is an opportunity to join a great team.. Our restaurant is known for seasonal market driven Italian cuisine and warm, impeccable service, delivered in an elegant dining room. As Service Director, you’ll be the glue that holds our front-of-house team together – leading with energy, setting the tone, and ensuring every guest feels genuinely cared for.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead, inspire, and mentor the front-of-house team to deliver flawless, welcoming service.
- Collaborate closely with the management and culinary team to build and maintain a seamless training program built around education and inspiration.
- Be a hands-on presence in the dining room – greeting guests, resolving issues with grace, and looking for moments to surprise and delight..
- Maintain high standards of cleanliness, organization, and professionalism across the board.
What We’re Looking For:
- Previous leadership experience in a high-end or fine dining setting.
- A strong understanding of service etiquette, wine, and hospitality standards.
- Exceptional communication skills and a calm, confident presence under pressure.
- Someone who leads by example – with warmth, integrity, and a deep love for hospitality.
What We Offer:
- A vibrant and supportive team culture.
- Competitive salary and benefits.
- Opportunities for growth within a respected and growing hospitality group.
- The chance to be part of something truly exceptional in the NYC dining scene.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your career and help lead a team that’s passionate about excellence, we’d love to meet you.
Apply now – let’s build something extraordinary together. Always Today.
Compensation Details
Compensation: Salary ($75,000.00 - $85,000.00)
Benefits & Perks: Health Insurance, Paid Time Off, 401k, Commuter Benefits, Potential Bonuses, Dining Discounts
Required Skills
Team Management
Conflict Resolution
Guest Relations
Training and Development
Attention to Detail
Problem Solving
Emotional Intelligence
Adaptability
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Part of Chef Driven Restaurant Group
Sempre Oggi, directly translated as ‘Always Today’, is a modern Italian restaurant brought forth by Robert Guarino and Simon Oren of the Chef Driven group. Described by Robert as “ a recreation of your very chic friend's home in Milan” the restaurant design draws much inspiration from Gio Ponti, the great Italian architect & designer. The design is modernist while maintaining a respect for
history & tradition. Existing white columns in the space have been enveloped with mirrors and
their corners bound to the floor in grey cement. Lighting is suspended throughout the space,
floating within custom maple-tinted, light transmissive plastic. The bar showcases more
inspiration from Ponti’s later career. Mimicking hundreds of tiles motifs he collaborated on with
Ceramica D’Agostino throughout the world, custom hand laid colored tiles in an abundance of
colors flood the wall and emerge onto the ceiling. Illuminated shelving with rounded corners
and no backs are reminiscent of Ponti’s love for playing with light and colors to the eye.
Our Executive Chef Phillip Basone’s menu is a recreation of memories and fondness of Italian cuisine. With a firm belief that living life always for today requires leaving a better tomorrow, Basone reinterprets classic Italian dishes with a strong understanding of seasonality in New York and respect for local ingredients, while always keeping tradition and authenticity in mind. Best represented in the VERDURE DI OGGI section, vegetables play center stage and will be ever evolving, rotating and changing based on availability, and frankly, whatever is most delicious that day.
We are looking for passionate and dedicated hospitality professionals who thrive in an environment of accountability and collaboration. Come apply to join SEMPRE Team
