About
From the floor to senior people leadership.
Vanda Peintler started on the restaurant floor and worked her way up into hospitality management, recruitment and senior people leadership. Her work is grounded in real hospitality experience, not generic HR theory.
Background
Hospitality management background
Started as a waitress and worked up into general management, with hands-on understanding of restaurant teams, service standards and site-level pressure.
20+ years hospitality experience
Experience across restaurants, service operations and multi-site hospitality environments in the UK and Europe.
10+ years recruitment experience
A decade hiring senior operators, managers and head office roles for hospitality groups.
Head of People experience
Multi-site people leadership covering structure, hiring, retention, onboarding and management capability.
Founder-led hospitality specialist
Focused on founder-led groups where people pressure is starting to affect growth, consistency and founder time.
Practical, commercial support
Hands-on people leadership for hospitality businesses that need structure, better managers and stronger hiring without adding a full-time senior people role too early.
Why founders hire me
I've seen hospitality from every side of the table.
I started as a waitress and worked my way into management. I spent more than a decade recruiting hospitality talent. Today I lead people strategy for multi-site hospitality businesses.
I've also built businesses myself, so I understand the pressures founders face when growth starts to outpace the team beneath them.
That combination matters.
Because people problems are rarely just people problems.
They're usually growth problems, leadership problems, retention problems, consistency problems, or founder-dependency problems.
My role is to help hospitality businesses solve those issues before they start limiting growth.
Working with Vanda