Assistant Manager - Restaurant

Love's Travel Stops; Heyburn (ID); On-site; USD 52,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Flexible scheduling

401(k) – 5% match

Medical/Dental/Vision insurance after

Competitive pay

Career development

Quarterly bonus program

Hiring immediately

Job summary

Love's Travel Stops is seeking a Restaurant Assistant Manager to support staffing, processes, and strategies to boost sales and customer satisfaction. You will help lead staff, manage operations, and execute actions that drive performance in a fast-paced restaurant setting.

The role emphasizes teamwork, flexibility across shifts, and a focus on delivering excellent service while maintaining safety and quality standards. Opportunities for growth and development are offered.

Qualifications

• 1+ years restaurant management experience.
• Ability to manage staff and operations.
• Experience with budgeting and P&L statements.
• Strong customer service and sales skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure a safe, clean, and well-maintained facility and adherence to food safety procedures.
• Drive sales through efficient ordering, stocking, inventory, and food prep.
• Assist Restaurant Manager with tasks, scheduling, cash handling and reporting.
• Prepare and package customer orders promptly to meet service standards.
• Analyze financial statements to identify opportunities and improve profitability.
• Collaborate with Restaurant Manager on talent acquisition.

Skills

Restaurant management

Leadership

Operations management

Budgets/P&L

Customer service

MS Office

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:

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.