Assistant Restaurant General Manager

KFC UK; Alvington; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pay rate £32,000 - £35,000

Bonus

Extra holiday

Life assurance

Free chicken & chips every shift

25% staff discount

Gym discounts

200+ high street perks & cashback

Wellbeing support

Job summary

KFC UK is seeking an Assistant Restaurant General Manager to lead daily operations, drive performance, and ensure an exceptional guest experience. You’ll manage a team, coach staff, and maintain smooth, compliant restaurant operations while upholding the KFC standard.

Join a role that rewards hands-on leadership, teamwork, and delivering great service, with a focus on building a thriving restaurant atmosphere and career growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• You’ve helped manage teams before and know how to bring out the best in others.
• You understand people, support building strong teams, and ensure everyone feels valued.
• You keep operations running—efficient, clean, and compliant—even when things get hectic.

Responsibilities

• Support like a leader by taking ownership of the restaurant, driving performance and hitting goals.
• Train, coach, and motivate your crew to go beyond standards.
• Own your KPIs, support the team, and ensure shifts deliver expected results.
• Stay on top of admin—from rosters to stock—to keep behind-the-scenes work solid.
• Help turn first-timers into regulars with guest experiences that keep them coming back.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Operations

Job description

Assistantrestaurant general manager

Welcome to KFC. Home of the real ones.

Wesell the world’s best chicken. We’ve done it for a long old time — since 1939,when the idea of finger lickin’ good chicken popped into our Colonel’s head. Now, we proudlyserve 1000+ communities across the UK and Ireland, bringing the grit, pride andiconic reputation that started in Kentucky all those years ago.

People who areoriginal. Individual. Fresh. We come to work to be ourselves, and to makesomething of ourselves. We bring the graft and the laughs every day — buildingour own community, as we serve our original recipe chicken to the ones we’rein.

In our place, ambition grows. Careers build.Potential goes further. Our doors are open, and they can take you anywhere.

If you join our team, we only ask one thing.That you be you.

Because that makes us, us.

Sounds good? Great. Here’s more about the job.

About the role

Support the team, take charge of the day-to-day, and help hit those performancegoals while ensuring your team doesn’t just meet expectations, but crushesthem. Own the operations,the atmosphere, and the guest experience, helping everythingrun smoothly and creating a place where both guests and the team feel right athome.

What you’ll spend your time doing

• Support like a leader. Assist in taking ownership of the restaurant — help drive performance,hit goals, and keep the vibe alive.


• Help build a dream team. Train, coach, and motivate your crew to not only meet standards but gobeyond them.


• Hit those targets. Own your KPIs, support the team, and make sure every shift deliverswhat’s expected.


• Keep everything running smooth. Stay on top of the admin — from rosters to stock, you help ensure thebehind-the-scenes work is solid.


• Make every guest feel special. Assist in turning first-timers into regulars with moments that keepthem coming back.

What we’d love from you:

• You lead by example. You’ve helped manage teams before and know how to bring out the best inothers.


• You understand people. You support building strong teams, handle tough convos, and make sureeveryone feels valued.


• You keep things running. You help ensure smooth operations — efficient, clean, compliant — evenwhen things get hectic.

Keeping it real

We don’t hire staff — we hire people. Peoplewith real lives and aspirations, building real careers. Each of us hassomething special to add to the mix we call work, and we’ll always encourageyou to add your perspective.

See, at KFC, everyone’s welcome — whateveryour background, and whatever future you’re creating. We’ll look out for youbecause you’re one of us, not because you work for us. We’ll invest in yourpotential, because it’s what we’ve always done. But most of all, we’ll give youthe freedom to be you, wherever (and whoever) you happen to be.

What’sin it for you:

We offerbenefits that make your life that little bit easier, because we know the juggleis real.

• Pay rate: £32,000 - £35,000


• Quarterly BONUS that rewardsthe hustle


• Extra holiday – more time to recharge


• Life assurance – we’ve got you covered


• Free chicken & chips every shift


• 25% staff discount


• Gym discounts to keep you moving


• 200+ high street perks & cashback


• Wellbeing support that actually helps

KFC foreveryone:

Whoever you areand wherever you’re from, KFC is a place where you can bring the realyou to work. We’re here to support you in being yourself, whether you work withus, or are trying to.

Our promise is this: every person who applies to a role at KFC, regardless of age, background, ethnicity, gender, ability,religion or sexual orientation, will have an equal opportunity to work here.

If you’d like any additional support with your application, have a disability or condition that may affect yourperformance during the recruitment process, or have any other requirements —just let us know. We’ll be there to help you be the real you.

Ready?

We hope so.

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