Daytime Kitchen Manager — BOH Team Lead

T's Restaurant Group; Cranston (RI); On-site; USD 54,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meal benefits

Tickets at Work discounts

Daytime hours – no late nights

Annual performance reviews

Internal promotion opportunities

Thanksgiving and Christmas Day off

Job summary

T’s Restaurant Group in Cranston, RI is hiring a Kitchen Manager- BOH Team Lead to steer the daily back-of-house, ensure food quality, lead a team, and drive operational excellence. The role emphasizes safety, training, and cost control, with a schedule that supports daytime operations.

Responsibilities include overseeing prep, production, and coordination with FOH leadership, while maintaining recipes, standards, and timely service.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required; culinary, hospitality, or restaurant management education preferred.
• Minimum of 2 years of kitchen management, restaurant leadership, or comparable back-of-house supervisory experience preferred.
• Strong working knowledge of back-of-house operations, including prep, cook line, expo, food production, recipe execution, food safety, sanitation, and kitchen organization.
• Experience with ordering, inventory, product rotation, waste control, portioning, food cost awareness, and labor awareness preferred.
• Ability to lead, coach, train, communicate expectations, and hold team members accountable in a respectful and professional manner.
• Strong communication, organization, problem-solving skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with restaurant leadership, front-of-house teams, vendors, and support teams.
• Basic computer skills and ability to learn company systems, including POS, scheduling, inventory, payroll, and communication tools.
• Food Safety Manager Certification and First Aid Certification required, or ability to obtain within company guidelines.
• Ability to work early mornings, weekends, holidays, and additional hours as business needs require.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
• Must be able to successfully complete a background check, when applicable, in accordance with company policy and applicable law.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily kitchen operations, including food preparation, production, opening, closing, sanitation, and overall execution.
• Maintain recipes, presentation, portioning, quality, and ticket-time standards.
• Recruit, interview, hire, onboard, train, coach, schedule, evaluate, recognize, and develop back-of-house team members.
• Partner with front-of-house leadership to deliver exceptional guest experiences.
• Manage ordering, inventory, invoices, food costs, labor performance, waste reduction, and required operational reporting.
• Protect company assets through responsible purchasing and inventory controls.

Skills

Kitchen leadership

Team management

Food safety

Communication

Organizational skills

Problem solving

Coaching and training

Staff development

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Culinary/restaurant mgmt education preferred

Food Safety Manager Certification

First Aid Certification

Tools

POS systems

Scheduling software

Inventory software

Payroll systems

Job description

T’s Restaurant Group in Cranston, RI is hiring a Kitchen Manager- BOH Team Lead to steer the daily back-of-house, ensure food quality, lead a team, and drive operational excellence. The role emphasizes safety, training, and cost control, with a schedule that supports daytime operations.

Responsibilities include overseeing prep, production, and coordination with FOH leadership, while maintaining recipes, standards, and timely service.