Lounge Café Bars

Happy Halloween 🎃 Our Loungers have been busy decorating their sites for spooky season and hosting a range of community events for our guests. #lovelounging #halloween

Here at Loungers we have started holding regular Glue Crews with our team. What is a Glue Crew? Well we believe that our team are the glue that holds our business together and we wouldn't be Loungers without them, therefore we want to bring people from different levels across Brightside - Roadside Dining, Cosy Club and Lounges together to talk about the day-to-day and the important things to them. The latest one was held in Cosy Club Worcester with this being an open forum on a range of topics - if it matters to our Loungers then it matters to us. As a business we are then able to use this feedback to understand what we do well and areas that need to be a focus for us to continue to develop as we grow.

Investing in our teams is high on the agenda for us at Loungers, with this in mind we hosted a first of its kind Assistant Managers and Sous Chefs Huddle. Here we brought together 90 of our fabulous Loungers from the South Coast region with a day packed of activities, information and recognition. This included a 'What make a Lounger' and 'What makes a Lounge' overview from our Operations Director, Craig Williams and Regional Ops Manager, Si Chalk. Followed by interactive sessions on Recruitment, L&D and Central Comms. We can't wait to see what our future leaders go on to achieve 💥 Check out our careers site for all our current vacancies 👉 https://lnkd.in/eFvGxE8J

A very exciting role has become available at Lounge!... We're on the lookout for a Food Development Assistant to join our HQ team. Reporting to the Head of Food and working closely with the Executive Development Chef and Food Development Manager on our Lounge and Brightside brands, you will be splitting your time between our Head Office in central Bristol and our Development Kitchen in Portishead. Read more about the position and apply below. https://lnkd.in/g57k5Pem #lovelounging #thelounges #foodiejobs #hospitalityrecruitment

Earlier this year we ran a Cruzcampo incentive for our teams and 14 lucky Loungers recently went to the gorgeous Seville on an all expenses paid trip to see the home of Cruzcampo 🍻 The winning Lounges were, Dorado, Correo, Romano, Rosado, Tesoro, Capo, Cofio, Novo, and Tretho. The group were lucky enough to enjoy tours around the city, trips to the castle and gardens, a tapas tour and a meal at the oldest tapas bar in the world as well as sampling a pint or two of Cruzcampo along the way. If you want to be in the chance of winning an epic prize such as a trip abroad, check out our careers page for all the latest vacancies https://lnkd.in/eFvGxE8J

Fantastic work from all our teams to raise an incredible amount for Macmillan Cancer Support 👏

Head of Community event & Marketing Opportunity! At Lounge community is at the heart of everything we do. We are looking for a Head of Community events & Marketing to join us to ensure that this is reflected at a local level through staff engagement, community events, charity work, and social media activity. This role reports directly to the Managing Director for Lounge, Kate Eastwood, and has direct line management responsibility for 8 regionally based Community Managers. You’ll be responsible for: ⭐ Coordinating and driving LoungeAid – our company wide main charity initiative ⭐ Managing key community events and activities as well as maintaining an annual calendar of community-focused activities across the estate ⭐ Establishing and nurturing community partnerships with initiatives like Paint Night, Talk Club, and Chatty Café, and finding new opportunities to strengthen local connections ⭐ Supporting the Regional Community Managers in creating and delivering site-specific newsletters. ⭐ Attending various periodical internal meetings to keep the Directors updated with progress on Community. Click the link in the comments below to read the full job description and apply directly, or reach out to Sarah Fyfe for more information https://lnkd.in/eCH4Zh3H

Loungers Ops trip 2024 🎉 Our Ops team work really hard all year supporting our teams and ensuring every guest leaves happy, therefore we like to thank them with a trip abroad. This gives them to chance to relax, spend time with other Ops and (hopefully) enjoy some sunshine ☀ This year we sent over 80 people to Italy, where the Ops enjoyed a historical tour of Pompeii, delicious food in Naples and an eventful boat trip to Capri featuring a lightening storm. We wouldn't be Loungers without our impressive Ops team which is growing year on year and we can't wait for next year's trip!

We've launched our new menu in all our Lounges today and we can't wait for you to try out our fantastic new dishes 😋 Our Food Development team have created some amazing new additions as well as making tweaks to current menu items before training this out across the business. First all of our Operations Managers and Chefs spent time discussing the dishes in Ritorno Lounge, Bristol, before heading back to their area and introducing the changes to their GMs and HCs. Our site managers then spent time with their teams in their Lounge, giving them the opportunity to try all the dishes. If you’re looking for a new role and want to be involved with preparing real food with high quality ingredients, then check out our latest job vacancies in the comments below!

Say hello to our newest team, who have been training hard in various Lounges across Devon and today are opening Lounge number 234, Bruto Lounge, in Totnes named after the Brutus Stone. The Bruto team are ready to bring the Lounging spirit to Totnes and can't wait to see you all! #lovelounging #newopening