Dining Room Manager - Strong background in Food
About The Position
Thomas Cuisine is seeking a Dining Room Manager to lead daily lunch and dinner service and create an exceptional dining experience for residents. This hands-on role leads the serving team and supports day-to-day dining room operations, including scheduling and timecards, inventory and safety audits, and maintaining information in the Full Count POS system. The position is based on-site in Ashland, Oregon, with a Tuesday–Saturday schedule. Compensation is $60,000–$65,000 annually, with eligibility for a 5% bonus. The role works in a fast-paced food service environment with regular exposure to commercial kitchen equipment, cleaning chemicals, moderate noise, heat, steam, and temperature fluctuations. It requires extended periods of standing and walking, occasional lifting and carrying up to 50 pounds, and movements such as bending, reaching, stooping, and twisting. Reasonable accommodations may be made for qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Thomas Cuisine is an award-winning, privately held contract food service company founded in 1986. It focuses on whole foods and scratch-made cuisine and describes its workplace as diverse, equitable, inclusive, and committed to belonging.
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED.
- Previous leadership or supervisory experience in food service, hospitality, dining, or a related environment.
- Strong customer service and communication skills.
- Ability to lead, train, and motivate food service staff.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining an organized, welcoming, and safe dining environment.
- Familiarity with scheduling, timecards, inventory, and food service operations.
- Comfort learning and regularly using POS and operational systems such as Full Count.
- Knowledge of food safety and sanitation principles.
- Ability to frequently stand and walk and occasionally bend and lift up to 50 pounds.
- Ability to successfully pass a criminal background check and drug screen.
Nice To Haves
- ServSafe Manager Certification, or ability to obtain it.
- State or county Food Handler Certification, if required.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage serving staff during lunch and dinner service.
- Assist with taking orders, running food, bussing tables, and cleaning and resetting the dining room.
- Create staff schedules and approve timecards.
- Perform safety audits and assist with inventory tracking.
- Maintain Full Count, including editing menus, updating specials, and adding or removing residents.
- Support a clean, organized, and welcoming dining environment.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Paid bereavement leave
- Paid parental leave
- Paid baby bonding leave
- Paid elder care leave
- Accrued paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Three medical plans (Blue Cross)
- Prescription coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Reimbursed wellness massages (portion of cost)
- Voluntary HSA with company match
- Voluntary FSA
- Free Employee Assistance Program with behavioral health support
- Access to wellness initiatives, including fitness memberships
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match
- Company-paid basic life insurance
- Company-paid accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) policy
- Voluntary short-term disability
- Voluntary employee, spouse, and/or child life insurance with AD&D
- Supportive, collaborative work environment
- Opportunities for growth
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
High school or GED
