General Manager

Bob Evans Restaurants • Holland, OH

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About The Position

The General Manager manages the restaurant’s daily operations and staff, ensuring execution of company policies, procedures, programs, and systems. The role provides leadership, direction, training, and development to direct reports and contributes to sales, goal achievement, and restaurant profitability. Decisions are guided by established policies and procedures and the Director of Operations.

The General Manager shapes the restaurant’s culture and supports employee engagement, team success, and guest satisfaction. The role oversees operational and financial performance, including food and labor costs, inventory, schedules, cash control, safety, cleanliness, food quality, equipment, and facility assets. The position may occasionally assist team members with their duties as needed.

The job requires standing and walking for extended periods, lifting and carrying up to 50 pounds, and accessing all areas of the restaurant. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Bob Evans states that it updates safety and sanitation procedures according to current CDC, local, and state guidelines.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Prior experience in a leadership role is required.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including conflict-resolution abilities.
• Strong planning and organizational skills.
• Dedication to exceptional guest service.
• Excellent computer skills and basic personal computer literacy.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional team-building capability.
• Basic business math and accounting skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects.
• Ability to serve as a role model for employee appearance and presentation.
• Availability to work a variety of shifts and weekends.
• Ability to stand for an entire shift and walk for long periods without rest or sitting.
• Ability to push, lift, carry, and transfer up to 50 pounds.
• Ability to reach, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, and bend and stoop.
• Ability to taste and smell and to communicate verbally with others.
• Vision abilities including close, distance, color, peripheral, depth perception, and adjustment of focus.
• Ability to freely access all areas of the restaurant, including selling floors, stock areas, and register areas.
• For restaurants serving alcohol, managers must meet applicable state-mandated age requirements for serving alcohol.

Nice To Haves

• A minimum of 4–6 years of prior experience in a family, fast-food, or casual-dining restaurant is strongly preferred.
• College and/or culinary schooling preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily restaurant operations and staff, including implementation of company policies, procedures, programs, and systems.
• Provide leadership, direction, training, and development to direct reports.
• Recruit, interview, hire, train, assign, and direct employees; appraise performance; reward and discipline employees, including termination; and address complaints and resolve problems.
• Shape restaurant culture and promote employee engagement, team-member success, and guest satisfaction through coaching and mentoring.
• Model professional behavior and create a warm, friendly, and hospitable atmosphere.
• Communicate sales performance and anticipated variances to the restaurant management team, and cascade corporate programs and initiatives to managers and staff.
• Occasionally assist team members with category job duties as needed.
• Champion sales-building activities and suggestive selling; maximize table turnover, sales per guest, and sales per hour.
• Meet and greet guests, investigate and resolve food-quality and service issues, and seek to satisfy guests.
• Maintain efficient operations, cost controls, and profit management.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA requirements, local health and safety codes, and company safety and security policies; enforce safe work behaviors.
• Monitor daily activities to ensure food quality and cleanliness standards.
• Control day-to-day operations, including cash-control and security procedures, inventory, food and labor management, financial reports, schedules, and appropriate follow-up actions.
• Manage P&L and controllable costs, including food, labor, and carryout costs.
• Control food costs by following recipes and portion-control procedures and conducting weekly inventory.
• Manage labor costs by optimizing schedules and monitoring schedules and sales performance using the company labor-scheduling tool.
• Ensure proper use of restaurant equipment and maintain the facility and company assets.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation; pay up to $70,000 per year depending on experience and geographic location/local market demand.
• Health and welfare benefits.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Flexible scheduling.
• Opportunity for development and career growth.
• Early close and no late nights.
• Work/life balance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: High school or GED