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Evening Operations & Private Events Manager – Destination Orchard | Mount Juliet, TN
Lead the Experience. Host Memorable Events. Help Grow Something Special.
We're partnering with a unique destination orchard and hospitality business in Mount Juliet, Tennessee to identify an exceptional Evening Operations & Private Events Manager.
This isn't a traditional restaurant management position. You'll help lead a dynamic hospitality operation that brings together a cidery and tasting room, food service, country store, orchard, outdoor activity areas, special events, and private gatherings—all within a welcoming farm environment.
We're looking for a hands-on hospitality leader who enjoys being where the action is: leading teams, engaging with guests, solving problems in real time, coordinating memorable events, and ensuring multiple areas of the business operate seamlessly.
If you have a background in restaurants, event venues, breweries, wineries, cideries, entertainment venues, attractions, or other multi-faceted food and beverage operations—and you're looking for something different from the traditional four-wall hospitality environment—we'd welcome the opportunity to speak with you.
Compensation & Benefits
- $55,000–$65,000 base salary
- Healthcare benefits
- Paid time off
- Paid seasonal downtime
- Unique outdoor hospitality environment
- Opportunity to help develop and execute new events and guest experiences
What You'll Do
This is a dual-focused leadership position combining evening business operations and private-event execution.
Evening Operations
- Lead evening operations across multiple areas, including the cidery, tasting room, patio, country store, food service, orchard, activity yard, and outdoor hospitality spaces.
- Supervise, train, and support bartenders, retail associates, food preparation teams, and other hospitality employees.
- Lead both front-of-house and back-of-house operations while stepping directly into service when business levels require it.
- Maintain exceptional standards for hospitality, cleanliness, food and beverage execution, and overall guest experience.
- Oversee nightly closing procedures, including register balancing, labor control, operational reporting, and property security.
- Monitor food, hard cider, beverage, and retail inventory and communicate purchasing and restocking needs to daytime leadership.
- Maintain compliance with alcohol-service regulations, food-safety requirements, and guest-safety standards.
Private Events & Programming
- Serve as the primary on-site leader and host for evening private events.
- Coordinate corporate gatherings, family reunions, birthday celebrations, and other private functions.
- Manage event logistics including staffing, food and beverage execution, venue layout, setup, guest arrival, service, and teardown.
- Serve as a highly visible point of contact for event hosts and guests throughout each event.
- Partner with the General Manager to develop and execute special programming and recurring events such as Pizza Nights, Writer's Rounds, Cider Tastings, and other experiences that showcase the orchard.
Systems & Operational Skills
Strong hands-on experience with Toast POS is important for this position.
The ideal candidate has personally used Toast or comparable restaurant operating systems for responsibilities such as:
- Daily POS operations
- Menu adjustments
- FOH and BOH workflows
- Inventory management
- Seating and service flow
- Shift reporting
- Register balancing
- Labor management and operational controls
We're particularly interested in candidates who understand how restaurant technology supports the entire operation—not simply someone who has used Toast to enter orders.
What We're Looking For
- Approximately 5–10 years of progressive hospitality leadership experience in restaurants, event venues, or multi-concept food and beverage operations.
- Experience leading front-of-house hospitality operations.
- Working knowledge of back-of-house kitchen preparation, food service, or concessions operations.
- Experience supervising, coaching, and supporting hourly hospitality teams.
- Private-event coordination and day-of-event execution experience.
- Ability to oversee multiple guest-facing areas simultaneously.
- Strong operational organization and attention to detail.
- Experience with inventory, closing procedures, register balancing, and labor control.
- Strong guest-service and interpersonal skills.
- Comfort working in a highly visible, hands-on leadership position.
- Ability and willingness to work a consistent evening and weekend schedule based on the orchard's event calendar and peak operating periods.
Experience with Tennessee alcohol-service regulations and food-handler or food-safety certifications is preferred.
Who Could Be a Great Fit?
Strong candidates may currently hold titles such as:
Restaurant Manager, Assistant General Manager, Hospitality Manager, Food & Beverage Manager, Private Events Manager, Event Operations Manager, Venue Manager, Taproom Manager, Tasting Room Manager, Brewery Manager, Winery Manager, Cidery Manager, Entertainment Venue Manager, Attractions Manager, or Guest Experience Manager.
Previous orchard or agritourism experience is not required. We're much more interested in transferable hospitality leadership, strong guest presence, event experience, operational versatility, and the ability to lead both people and the business.
What Will Make You Successful Here
You'll likely thrive in this position if you're:
- A hands-on leader who doesn't manage from an office.
- Charismatic, outgoing, and naturally comfortable engaging with guests.
- Highly organized and able to manage several things happening at once.
- Calm and decisive when business gets busy.
- Comfortable moving between FOH, BOH, beverage, retail, and event operations.
- Energized by hosting and creating memorable guest experiences.
- Interested in helping develop new events and programming.
- Drawn to outdoor hospitality, farming, agritourism, and community-focused experiences.
Why This Opportunity Is Different
Instead of managing one dining room within four walls, you'll help lead a destination experience.
The operation brings together food and beverage, cider, retail, outdoor activities, private gatherings, special events, and seasonal experiences. That gives the right hospitality leader an opportunity to use a much broader range of operational and people skills while helping create experiences guests remember.
If you're looking for a hospitality leadership opportunity that combines operations, events, people, and guest experience in a distinctive setting, we'd welcome the opportunity to have a confidential conversation.
JOB ID: 180553
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John Watson