Assistant Manager - Restaurant

Love's Travel Stops; Oglesby (IL); On-site; USD 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition assistance

401(k) – 100% match up to 5%

Paid Time Off

Flexible Scheduling

Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance

Quarterly Bonus Program

Job summary

Love's Travel Stops is looking for a Restaurant Assistant Manager in Oglesby, Illinois. This role involves leading staff, ensuring efficient restaurant operations, and enhancing customer satisfaction. Candidates should have at least 1 year of experience in restaurant management, overseeing significant annual sales. Love's offers a supportive work environment with benefits such as competitive pay and tuition assistance. Join our family-focused company and make a difference in our dynamic team.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of restaurant management experience.
• 1+ years managing operations with over $1 million in annual sales.
• 1+ years deciphering budgets and P&L statements.
• Intermediate computer skills including Word and Excel.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safe, clean, and well-maintained facilities.
• Drive product and service sales through effective inventory management.
• Assist the Restaurant Manager with tasks and reporting.
• Prepare and package customer orders promptly.
• Analyze profit and loss statements for operational improvements.
• Collaborate on talent acquisition efforts.

Skills

Communication skills

Customer service

Organization

Multitasking

Salesmanship

Tools

Microsoft 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.