Assistant Restaurant Manager

Zambrero; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Zam Perks

Retail discounts

Job summary

Zambrero Mentone is seeking an Assistant Restaurant Manager to lead the team in delivering fast, fresh, and healthy Mexican food with a smile. You’ll support the Restaurant Manager to maintain outstanding customer experience, foster a positive workplace culture, and drive strong financial results.

You’ll oversee daily operations, assist with hiring, training, rostering, stock orders, and safety standards, while ensuring quality food preparation and cleanliness.

Qualifications

• Customer service mindset.
• Team leadership with a positive culture.

Responsibilities

• Lead the restaurant team in efficient day-to-day operations.
• Assist in managing your team, including hiring, training, rostering and resolving issues.
• Ensure food is prepared, presented, and served to a high standard.
• Assist with stock ordering from suppliers.
• Support office duties such as paperwork, banking, cash handling and policy reviews.
• Oversee daily and weekly cleaning in production areas, dining room and restaurant.
• Ensure Workplace Health and Safety standards are understood and followed.

Job description

Development opportunities – become the next leader in our team

We are on the hunt for great people like you to join our Zam fam in Mentone!

About Us

We are Zambrero. Australia's largest Mexican franchise offering healthy, fresh food while fighting world hunger. We are a quick-service restaurant that offers tasty burritos, bowls, nachos, and tacos filled with home-made guac and other goodies. For you, that means you will always work with yummy fresh ingredients that won’t leave you smelling like you just came from work. Our restaurants are open day and night so you can be flexible and keep up your work, school and play.

But we are not just a healthy quick service restaurant! We also donate one meal to someone in need for every bowl or burrito bought at Zambrero through our Plate 4 Plate initiative.

What you’ll do

Our Assistant Restaurant Managers take pride in preparing and serving fast, fresh, and healthy Mexican food with a smile. As an Assistant Restaurant Manager, you will be responsible for assisting the Restaurant Manager with setting the highest standard in all areas of the restaurant including the customer experience, the workplace culture, and the financial results.

• Leading the restaurant team in efficient day to day operations
• Assisting in managing your team, including hiring, training, performance reviews, rostering, and resolving any employee issues including grievances
• Ensuring food is prepared, presented, and served to the highest standard
• Assisting with ordering of stock from various suppliers
• Assisting with office administration duties such as paperwork, banking, cash handling, payroll and reviewing policies
• Managing daily and weekly cleaning of the production areas, dining room and general restaurant
• Ensuring safety and security standards are recognised and upheld, and that employees are effectively trained in Workplace Health and Safety

What you’ll bring

We’d love for you to join us if you’ve got what we need:

• Passionate about our humanitarian values and ready to make a difference
• Passionate about building a positive culture within the restaurant– focused on exceptional customer service, working together, helping those in need and making Zambrero an enjoyable place to work.

What we offer

• Have access to Zam Perks!, our Perks and Benefits program:
• Discounts from over 400 retailers Australia-wide, like Coles, JB Hi Fi, the Iconic, Myer and more!
• Access workout videos, recipes, financial tips and more designed to support your wellbeing
• Contribute to fighting world hunger one plate at a time
• Grow your career. We’ve had great success stories from Team Members stepping into roles such as Restaurant Managers or even joining the Zambrero Support Office.
• Join a fun and dynamic team
• Flexible work hours so you can put your priorities first - finish work before midnight
• Clean work environment and minimal equipment that doesn’t leave you feeling oily

Want to learn more about Zambrero including our story, vision, and founder? Have a look at our website at www.zambrero.com.au