Deputy Catering Manager

Posted on 29/10/2025

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Cairn Lodge Services
Catering
£31,750 per annum
37.5 hours per week
Full Time

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About The Role
The Deputy Catering Manager is a hands on operational role that will lead the delivery of great quality food and service front of house in a station, supported by Service Leaders.

Passionate about delighting our customers, you will lead your team from the front, coaching your team to provide excellent standards and service every day.

Your duties will include:
- Building a strong team of service leaders who lead the food quality, customer service and standards on every shift
- Ensure we deliver food quality according to the specs and recipes as defined by the food team
- Ensure your team align to our values and deliver warm, friendly, and speedy service to our customers
- Deliver high standards of cleanliness, food hygiene and health and safety standards by doing regular audits and setting goals and action plans for your team
- Ensure commercial success by looking after the sales, cash and stock for your station
- Look after your team to ensure they are fully trained, engaged and motivated whilst ensuring all colleagues are rostered effectively and paid accurately and on time.
About You
Passionate about great service and our unique business, the successful candidate will display our values of warmth, graft and courage to bring to life our story for their colleagues and customers
- A hands on approach to coaching your team to deliver the very best for our customers
- Knowledge of food safety and health and safety legislation
- A warm and friendly manner and be someone who goes above and beyond for both customers and colleagues alike
- A passion for our food, local suppliers and our landscape
- Be excited by working in a dynamic and at times demanding environment
- Exceptionally high standards for customer service, food quality and cleanliness and standards
About Us
At Westmorland we are family business that started in 1972 from our farm in Cumbria, which runs unique motorway service areas – Tebay, Gloucester and Cairn Lodge – based on no franchises but instead our own Farmshops and Kitchens. We also have Junction 38, a services dedicated to HGV drivers, Rheged, a meeting place, Cafe, Gallery and Cinema, and the Westmorland Hotel situated on the edge of the Lake District.

We are proud to be connected to our place and that our family of colleagues share our values of Warmth, Graft and Courage. If you join our family it will be hard work at times but we offer a great range of benefits including generous discounts in our farmshops and kitchens, free meals when working on shift, generous holiday entitlements plus a paid day off for your birthday and more.