General Manager

Jimmy John's; Celina (TX); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonuses based on performance

Health, dental, vision benefits

Paid time off

Employee meal program

Career advancement opportunities

Job summary

Jimmy John’s in Celina, TX is seeking a General Manager to lead a fast-paced team and ensure top-quality sandwiches, service, and store profitability.

You will supervise staff, manage inventory, training, scheduling, and daily operations, while upholding company standards and safety. This role offers growth opportunities within a fast-growing franchise network.

Qualifications

• Experience managing a team in a fast-paced restaurant.
• Ability to maintain high standards of food quality and service.
• Willingness to work 50–80 hours per week and overtime as needed.
• Must be at least 18 years old.

Responsibilities

• Manage a staff of Assistant Managers and 3–15 employees depending on location.
• Oversee hiring, training, evaluation, discipline, and termination of employees.
• Ensure food safety, inventory control, and daily cash handling.
• Forecast demand, schedule staff, and supervise food preparation and service.
• Lead weekly manager meetings and maintain store standards.
• Provide on-the-job coaching and ensure world-class customer service.

Skills

Leadership

Staff development

Customer service

Food safety

Inventory management

Tools

Cash register

Inventory software

Job description

General Manager

We are not your everyday fast food franchisee. We care! We are a freaky F.A.S.S.T. growing Jimmy John’s franchisee looking for freaky F.A.S.S.T. General Managers to help manage our freaky fun team while ensuring freaky fresh sandwiches and a freaky clean store. At Jimmy John’s, you will find yourself as part of a culture that offers competitive wages and benefits, opportunities for advancements and growth, along with one freaky fun place to work. We don't just do fast food; we do food... F.A.S.S.T!

As a General Manager, you are key to our business. You will manage all functions of the restaurant to ensure fast, accurate, world-class customer service and the fulfillment of orders with high-quality products while ensuring restaurant profitability, cleanliness, and organization. You will achieve sales goals, develop your employees, maintain retention, and ensure all systems are efficiently in place.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Manages a staff of Assistant Managers and approximately 3-15 employees depending on location.
• Assigns, oversees, and evaluates work for compliance.
• Manage hiring, training, evaluating, discipline, and termination of employees.
• Provides on the job training and coaching for new employees.
• Delegates, and is responsible for, the ordering, receipt, storage, and issuing of all food, labor, equipment, cleaning, and paper supplies for the unit to ensure a minimum loss from waste or theft.
• Assists in the supervision, preparation, sales, and service of food.
• Forecasts food items by estimating what amount of each food item will be consumed per shift.
• Supervises food preparation and service operations while on duty.
• Assists team members during rush periods to ensure restaurant efficiency.
• Assists team members by greeting customers, taking orders, using the cash register, assembling orders, and checking for completeness and accuracy.
• Ensures that every customer receives world-class customer service.
• Completes daily food preparations including meat and vegetable slicing, portioning, and rotating products.
• Executes systems and procedures with 100% integrity and completeness.
• Completes daily, weekly, and periodic paperwork with accuracy.
• Controls inventory by using weekly inventory systems and maintains regular inventory ordering schedules.
• Conducts weekly manager meetings.
• Audits systems and procedures as well as end of shift paperwork.
• Completes preventative maintenance and upkeep on store equipment and supplies.
• Responsible for 100% of the cash drawers during the shift.
• Manages deposits and changes orders per Deposit Operating Procedure.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Work Environment:

• Ability to use basic math, addition, subtraction, and understand basic fractions.
• Required to stand, walk, sit, use hands, reach with hands and arms, talk, listen, close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
• Occasionally required to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, and lift up to 50 pounds.
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties the employee is occasionally exposed to mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is moderate.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive Salary that is dependent upon experience.
• Top performing General Managers may earn 12 periodic, metric-based bonuses on store performance.
• Benefits including PPO Medical, PPO Dental, and Vision!
• Paid time off (PTO).
• Employee meal benefit program.
• Career Advancements – Become an Area Manager or Director of Operations!

Becoming a leader in the industry...

• Career development programs that provide mentorship and support through your immediate supervisor and HR department
• Increase pride and ownership of your own location or area.
• Develop and increase leadership and management skills as well as experience.
• Become an Area Manager or Director of Operations with a fast-growing organization.

Must be at least 18 years of age, have reliable transportation, and willing to work overtime, holidays, weekends, and days off as business dictates is a must. Must have the physical stamina to work 50-80 hours per week.

We slice our all-natural* meats and fresh veggies in-house every day. Our fresh-baked bread is made right here where you can see it, and our house-made tuna salad is fresh every day. The flavor of a ripe tomato, crisp shredded lettuce, combined with fresh-baked bread, fresh-sliced meat and real Hellmann's® mayo - that's when the magic happens. Made with love every single day since 1983. That's Jimmy Fresh!