General Manager

ABOUT US

AC Barbeque is a new BBQ lifestyle brand created by beloved comedians and grilling enthusiasts, Anthony Anderson and Cedric The Entertainer. Founded on the principles of Black excellence, family tradition, and bringing people together, AC Barbeque aims to provide the tools, flavor, and community that’ll take grilling to the next level with food rooted in culture and fueled by community. When you need to up your BBQ game, just look to the AC Flame. AC BBQ is excited to announce its first brick and mortar restaurant in Westfield Century City in Spring/Summer 2024.

POSITION

The General Manager has overall responsible for all facets of restaurant operations as well as the financial results of the restaurant. The General Manager is the face of AC BBQ to both the restaurant team and the guests and must be forward thinking, passionate, and high energy. General managers are responsible for motivating, coaching, and developing the restaurant team to ensure a high-quality service and food quality experience for all guests and a positive culture for all team members.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Working with management team, holds responsibility to ensure restaurant is optimally staffed with talented employees and actively recruits new talent on an ongoing basis to ensure outstanding service, food quality, and hospitality.
• Continuously strives to develop all managers and hourly team members by giving timely, honest and ongoing coaching through one-on-ones and performance evaluations.
• Adheres to the operational basics and standards with full commitment and passion, working with entire team to be empowered and accountable for maintaining established operational, service and food quality standards.
• Demonstrates the ability to work in all stations effectively in order to act as a role model and train others to execute to standards.
• Adheres to company standards and service levels to increase sales and minimize costs resulting in increased profit performance and sales vs. prior year. This includes managing food, labor, and inventory cost to standard.
• Maintains the physical plant through preventative maintenance while ensuring that all restaurant equipment is properly maintained to ensure proper safety and sanitary standards.
• Ensures compliance with operational standards, company policies, federal/state/local laws, and ordinances; ensures all health inspections meet or exceed required state standards.
• Oversees all restaurant administrative requirements including cash handling and federal, state, and local compliance.
• Effectively manage guest and employee issues to ensure optimal resolution.
• Other related responsibilities.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• Minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience working in a restaurant management role with a fast casual or quick service restaurant
• Demonstrated skills managing budgets, food and labor costs, and restaurant P&L
• Strong passion for and demonstrated commitment to guests and team members
• Behaves as a role model to other managers and hourly team members
• Must be an actively engaged manager and leader
• Exceptional attention to detail and the demonstrated ability to delegate, cross train and hold others accountable to the high standards of exceptional service and food quality
• Proven success working with systems, methods, and processes that contribute to great execution and delivering bottom line results
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills

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