Assistant Manager - Restaurant

Love's Travel Stops; Hereford (TX); On-site; USD 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition assistance

PTO

Flexible scheduling

401(k) – 100% match up to 5%

Insurance after 30 days

Competitive pay

Career development

Quarterly bonus program

Hiring immediately

Job summary

Love’s Travel Stops is seeking a Restaurant Assistant Manager to help lead staff, manage processes, and execute strategies that drive sales and customer satisfaction. You will work closely with the Restaurant Manager to ensure safe, efficient operations and great service.

The role requires flexibility across shifts, strong communication, and hands-on supervision of 5–10+ employees. The position emphasizes routine reporting, budget awareness, and delivery of high-quality guest experiences in a

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Exceptional customer service and salesmanship.
• Strong teamwork and organizational abilities.

Responsibilities

• Ensure a safe, clean, and well-maintained facility with proper food safety procedures.
• Drive sales through efficient ordering, stocking, inventory management, and food preparation.
• Assist Restaurant Manager with task execution, scheduling, cash integrity, and reporting.
• Prepare and package customer orders promptly to meet service expectations.
• Understand financial reporting and act on opportunities to improve profitability.
• Collaborate with Restaurant Manager on talent acquisition.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Customer service

Salesmanship

Teamwork

Tools

Microsoft Office

Outlook

Word

Excel

Job description

Benefits:

• Fuel Your Growth with Love's - company funded tuition assistance program
• 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
• Hiring Immediately

Welcome to 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.

• Understand financial reporting to include analyzing profit and loss statements and affecting change to capture and capitalize on opportunities.

• Collaborate with Restaurant Manager in the efforts of talent acquisition.

Experience:

• 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.

• Intermediate level computer skills including Microsoft Office, Outlook, Word, and Excel.

• A valid driver’s license and ability to successfully complete a pre-employment background check and drug screening.

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.

• Physical Demands: Regular talking and hearing. Active involvement requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing. Frequent lifting/moving of items over 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required.

Our Culture:

Come see why Love’s Travel Stops and Country Stores was recognized by Indeed as the winner of the Better Work Award in 2023.

Love’s Travel Stops and Country Stores is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Veterans encouraged to apply.

Love’s has been fueling customers’ journeys since 1964. Innovation and perseverance continue to lead the way for the family-owned and -operated business headquartered in Oklahoma City with more than 40,000 team members in North America and Europe. The company’s core business is travel stops and convenience stores with more than 630 locations in 42 states. Love’s continues its commitment to offer products and services that provide value for professional drivers, fleets, four-wheel customers, RVers, alternative fuel and wholesale fuel customers. Giving back to communities Love’s serves and maintaining an inclusive and diverse workplace are hallmarks of the company’s award‑winning culture.

The Love’s Family of Companies includes:

• Gemini Motor Transport, one of the industry’s safest trucking fleets.
• Speedco and Love’s Truck Care, the largest oil change and preventive maintenance and total truck care network.
• Musket, a rapidly growing, Houston-based commodities supplier and trader.
• Trillium, a Houston-based alternative fuels expert.
• TVC Pro-driver, a commercial driver’s license (CDL) protection subscription service.