What is it like to work for one of the leading restaurant and pub brands in the UK?

What is it like to work for one of the leading restaurant and pub brands in the UK?

Kayleigh Kelly our consultant managing the role
Date posted: 20/06/2025

You already know Mitchells & Butlers, even if you do not realise it! That’s because we run many of the UK’s most famous restaurant and pub brands, including All Bar One, Miller and Carter, Toby Carvery, Harvester and Browns, as well as some of its most beautiful and iconic pubs. In fact, we’re the leading restaurant and pub company in the UK, with 14 brands across 1,700 businesses. 

So, if a career as a chef cooking the Nations most loved roast dinner at Toby Carvery, as a mixologist creating stylish cocktails at Browns in the heart of London or as a front of house team member serving hand-pulled real ale at the legendary White Horse in Parson’s Green is of interest to you, a job working within one our of leading brands may be what you are looking for!

What makes working for one of our brands so great?

Made up of 14 unique brands, we are able to offer our employees the flexibility to work in a hospitality role that best suits their skills and lifestyle. From serving coffee at a breakfast shift in All Bar One to making cocktails on a Saturday evening at Miller and Carter, there is a role and business to meet everybody’s lifestyle.

And just like any family, we believe in the ethos that sharing is caring! If you would like to move to another brand, whether that be down to relocating to a new location, the opportunity to progress in your role or simply for a change of scenery, as an employee you will have the opportunity to develop and grow across any of our 14 brands.

What M&B brand is best suited to you?

What is it like to work for the M&B family?

Whilst being the largest restaurant and pub company in the UK, spanning across 14 brands, we pride ourselves on working collaboratively as one big family.

Therefore, we instill the ethos that when working for any of our brands you should have fun, feel valued, enjoy what you do and get rewarded and recognised along the way.

Bring us that dedication to every moment and you’ll quickly find that you can start looking further ahead too – to a future career that could take you across any one of our brands, into so many different opportunities.

You don’t have to take our word for it, take a look around for an insider’s view into #LifeAtMAB

How working for a M&B brand can help you progress in your career in hospitality

Employee development is at the core of everything that we do. We believe that we have the best people in the industry and therefore we want to nurture and develop that talent.

We offer a range of development opportunities to new and existing employees, including award-winning apprenticeship schemes, quality educational spirit and soft drinks training, graduate schemes and MBA/MSc programmes for higher levels of management.

This investment in our employees is what differentiates us from other hospitality organisations. And the impact of this investment in our employees is evident with the members of our experienced management team having been with us for an average of twenty years.

Would you like to work for one of our brands?

We're always on the lookout for more fun-loving people to join our teams across our 14 brands. Whether you are looking to find a bar and waiting job within a vibrant team, cook up a storm in one of our kitchens, or lead a team success, we have a wide variety of roles available across our 14 unique brands.

All you need to do is get the ball rolling on your application, and we'll help you figure out which of our brands could be the right fit for you. 


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