Assistant Manager - Restaurant

Love's Travel Stops; Ellabell (GA); On-site; USD 52,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition assistance

Paid Time Off

Flexible Scheduling

401(k) – 100% match up to 5%

Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance after

Competitive Pay

Career Development

Quarterly Bonus Program

Profit-Sharing

Job summary

Love's Travel Stops is seeking a Restaurant Assistant Manager to help lead staff, manage processes, and execute strategies to boost sales and customer satisfaction. The role offers growth opportunities within a dynamic team environment of a well-known fuel-and-restaurant brand.

Responsibilities include ensuring safety and cleanliness, managing inventory and P&L considerations, and collaborating with the Restaurant Manager on hiring and daily operations.

Qualifications

• 1+ years restaurant management experience.
• Strong customer service and communication skills.
• Experience analyzing budgets and P&L statements.

Responsibilities

• Ensure a safe, clean facility and adherence to food safety procedures.
• Drive sales through efficient ordering, stocking, inventory, and food prep.
• Assist Restaurant Manager with task execution, scheduling, and reporting.
• Prepare and package customer orders to meet service standards.
• Support talent acquisition in the restaurant team.
• Collaborate with manager to optimize operations and profitability.

Skills

Leadership

Customer service

Salesmanship

Budget & P&L

Staff training

POS systems

Tools

POS systems

Job description

Benefits:

• * Fuel Your Growth with Love's - company funded tuition assistance
• * Paid Time Off
• * Flexible Scheduling
• * 401(k) – 100% match up to 5%
• * Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance after 30-days
• * Competitive Pay
• * Career Development
• * Quarterly Bonus Program
• * Profit-Sharing Opportunity
• Hiring Immediately

Welcome to Love’s!

At Love’s, Restaurant Assistant Managers play a key role in ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of our restaurant. You will assist in leading staff, managing processes, and executing strategies to enhance sales and customer satisfaction. With opportunity as our greatest benefit and a dynamic team environment, this role is ideal for individuals passionate about the restaurant industry and ready to make a difference.

Job Functions:

• Ensure a safe, clean, and well-maintained facility through facilities and equipment maintenance along with adherence to proper food safety procedures.
• Drive sales of products and services through efficient ordering, stocking, inventory management, and food preparation.
• Assist the Restaurant Manager with proper task execution and completion, schedule and cash integrity, and complete daily, weekly, and monthly reporting.
• Work with the team to prepare and package customer orders in a timely manner to maximize customer service expectations and results.
• Understandfinancial reporting to include analyzing profit and loss statements and affecting changes to capture and capitalize on opportunities.
• Collaborate with Restaurant Manager in the efforts of talent acquisition.

Requirements:

• Ability to work various shift times to include days, afternoons, evenings, nights, occasional overnights, weekends, and holidays.
• 1+ years restaurant management experience.
• 1+ years managing operations with an annual sales volume of $1+million.
• 1+ years affecting and deciphering budgets and P&L statements.
• 1+ years supervising and training 5-10+ employees.
• Ability to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screen and background check. Additional screening may include a motor vehicle check and/or DOT Physical.

Skills and Demands:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a customer satisfaction focus.
• Exceptional customer service, positive rapport building, expert salesmanship, and ensuring satisfaction by managing operations and employee-vehicle deployment.
• Strong organizational and multitasking abilities with attention to detail.
• Effective teamwork skills.
• Ability to navigate various computer programs, systems, and technology tools as part of daily operations.
• Must be able to talk, hear, move around, lift up to 50 pounds, and see clearly to perform job duties.

Our Culture:

Fueling customers’ journeys since 1964, innovation leads the way for this family-owned and operated business headquartered in Oklahoma City. With nearly 40,000 team members, travel stops are the core business along with products and services that provide value for professional drivers, fleets, traveling public, RVers, alternative energy and wholesale fuel customers. Giving back to communities and an inclusive workplace are hallmarks of the award-winning culture.

Love's is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Veterans encouraged to apply.