General Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Prior experience in a leadership role is required.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and conflict-resolution abilities.
• Strong planning and organizational skills.
• Dedication to providing 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 handle objects, tools, or controls, bend, and stoop.
• Ability to taste and smell and to communicate verbally.
• Ability to use close, distance, color, and peripheral vision; perceive depth; and adjust focus.
• Ability to access all areas of the restaurant, including selling floors, stock areas, and register areas.

Nice To Haves

• Four to six years of prior experience in a family, fast-food, or casual dining restaurant.
• College and/or culinary schooling.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily restaurant operations and staff, executing company policies, procedures, programs, and systems.
• Recruit, interview, hire, train, assign, and direct employees; appraise performance and reward, discipline, or terminate employees in accordance with company policies and applicable laws.
• Shape the restaurant’s culture and promote employee engagement.
• Coach and mentor team members to support their success and guest satisfaction.
• Model professional behavior and create a warm, friendly, 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 their job duties.
• 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 or service issues, and work to satisfy guests.
• Maintain efficient operations, appropriate 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 maintain food quality and cleanliness standards.
• Control day-to-day operations, including cash control and security, inventory, food and labor management, financial reports, schedules, and appropriate follow-up actions.
• Manage profit and loss, including food, labor, carryout, and other controllable costs.
• Control food costs by following recipes and portion-control standards and conducting weekly inventory.
• Manage labor costs by optimizing weekly employee and management schedules and monitoring daily 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, with pay up to $70,000 per year depending on experience and geographic location or 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.