Assistant Manager - Restaurant

Love's Travel Stops; Sarcoxie (MO); On-site; USD 52,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition assistance

Paid Time Off

Flexible Scheduling

401(k) match up to 5%

Medical/Dental/Vision

Quarterly Bonus

Hiring Immediately

Job summary

Love’s Travel Stops is seeking a Restaurant Assistant Manager to help lead staff, streamline operations, and execute strategies that boost sales and customer satisfaction. The role emphasizes opportunities for advancement within a dynamic team and the restaurant environment.

The candidate will support task execution, scheduling, and reporting while ensuring quality service and adherence to food safety standards. Experience in restaurant management is preferred.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a customer satisfaction focus.
• Exceptional customer service, rapport building, and salesmanship to ensure satisfaction while managing operations and staff.
• Strong organizational and multitasking abilities with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Ensure a safe, clean, and well‑maintained facility through facilities and equipment maintenance and proper food safety procedures.
• Drive sales through efficient ordering, stocking, inventory management, and food preparation.
• Assist the Restaurant Manager with task execution, scheduling, cash integrity, and reporting.
• Prepare and package customer orders to meet service expectations.
• Understand financial reporting and analyze profit and loss statements to drive improvements.
• Collaborate with the Restaurant Manager on talent acquisition efforts.

Skills

Communication

Customer service

Salesmanship

Organization

Multi-tasking

Teamwork

Budget & P&L

MS Office

Tools

Microsoft Office

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 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, including analyzing profit and loss statements and affecting changes to capture and capitalize on opportunities.
• Collaborate with the Restaurant Manager in talent acquisition efforts.

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.

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement:

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