General Manager
About The Position
Ladybird Taco is a Texas inspired taco shop serving breakfast and lunch tacos on house-made tortillas from quality ingredients. We are on a mission to positively impact our communities through life-giving hospitality - we genuinely believe that lives are changed through care, humility, and excellence for our team and the communities we serve. We’re looking for enthusiastic and ambitious individuals to lead our shops. Every day in our shops, we make real food from scratch — you’ll oversee a full-service BOH operation, with a quick-service FOH model. The GM/Team Lead is the anchor of the store — you’re an enthusiastic leader, a quick thinker, a problem-solver, a skilled communicator, and a motivator. You’ll be accountable for executing day to day in a way that aligns with our core values and within the budget for your store with particular emphasis on food + labor + supplies.
Requirements
- Ladybird Taco DNA for how we act: Caring (be empathetic; seek to do good of those around you (team and guest)), Humble (eager to serve others; focused on others and not yourself; coachable), Hungry (driven to perform with excellence in all that you do; how you do anything is how you do everything).
- 5+ years’ experience in restaurant management.
- Managed and developed 25+ team members per shift.
- Experience in managing P&L and COGS, executing within a budget, decision making, process improvement (lean, six sigma, EOS), labor management/scheduling, training & team development, and food quality assurance.
- Experience in ensuring safe food handling at a large scale.
- Manager’s Food Safety Certification required (ServSafe Manager’s Certification).
- Ability to coordinate multiple tasks such as food, beverage + labor cost while maintaining required standards of operation in daily restaurant activities.
- Must possess good communication skills for dealing with diverse staff.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in fast casual restaurant chains (preferred).
Responsibilities
- Oversee a full-service BOH operation, with a quick-service FOH model.
- Lead the shop as an enthusiastic leader, a quick thinker, a problem-solver, a skilled communicator, and a motivator.
- Execute day to day operations in alignment with core values and within budget, with emphasis on food, labor, and supplies.
- Manage and develop 25+ team members per shift.
- Manage P&L and COGS, execute within a budget, make decisions, improve processes (lean, six sigma, EOS), manage labor/scheduling, train and develop the team, and ensure food quality assurance.
- Ensure safe food handling at a large scale.
- Coordinate multiple tasks such as food, beverage, and labor cost while maintaining required standards of operation in daily restaurant activities.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Profit sharing
- Training & development
- Competitive salary
- A collaborative family of people who live our core values and have your back
- A clear career path with opportunities for development, both personally and professionally
- Flexible scheduling, because we respect the need for work/life harmony
- Competitive pay + bonus plan granted based on sales, labor + food costs
- Retention/Tenor bonuses ($10K at 3 years, and $15K at 5 years)
- ICHRA health coverage
- Free Ladybird swag
- Complimentary Ladybird
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
