Overview
Salary: up to 4000Eur pm
Start: ASAP
Languages: Dutch and English
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
We are seeking a passionate and people-focused Café & Breakfast Manager to lead two distinctive food & beverage concepts within one of Amsterdam’s most innovative hospitality destinations.
This is an opportunity for a hospitality leader who believes memorable guest experiences are created through genuine human connection, strong leadership, and exceptional operational standards. You’ll oversee daily café and breakfast operations, inspire a dynamic team, and create an environment where both guests and colleagues feel welcome and valued.
Your impact
- Lead the day-to-day operations of two unique hospitality concepts, ensuring an exceptional guest experience from morning through service.
- Build, coach, and inspire a high-performing team, creating a culture of authenticity, accountability, and engagement.
- Drive operational excellence while maintaining a warm, welcoming, and community-focused atmosphere.
- Use commercial insights and performance data to improve guest satisfaction, productivity, and profitability.
- Ensure compliance with food safety, health & safety, and quality standards across all operations.
What you’ll do
- Be a visible, hands-on leader, setting the standard for service excellence.
- Recruit, develop, and retain talented hospitality professionals through coaching and mentoring.
- Manage labour, costs, stock, and operational performance to achieve financial targets.
- Collaborate with internal teams to deliver seamless guest experiences and support events where required.
- Analyse business performance and implement initiatives to increase revenue and operational efficiency.
- Create an environment where guests return because of the atmosphere, service, and genuine hospitality.
Who you are
- Proven experience leading café, breakfast, restaurant, or all-day dining operations within hospitality.
- A confident people manager with a coaching leadership style and a passion for developing teams.
- Commercially aware with experience managing budgets, labour costs, and operational KPIs.
- Calm under pressure, highly organised, and able to balance operational excellence with outstanding guest experiences.
- Fluent in both Dutch and English.
- Hands-on, energetic, and passionate about creating memorable hospitality experiences.
Job Tenure: Contract
