General Manager

Ladybird Taco; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

Profit sharing

Training & development

Competitive salary

Retention bonus 3 years

Retention bonus 5 years

ICHRA health coverage

Free Ladybird swag

Complimentary Ladybird

Job summary

Ladybird Taco is a Texas-inspired taco shop serving breakfast and lunch tacos on house-made tortillas. We are on a mission to positively impact our communities through life-giving hospitality and excellence for our team and guests.

The General Manager/Team Lead will oversee a full-service BOH operation and a quick-service FOH model, driving balanced business, team growth, and exceptional guest experiences.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of restaurant management experience.
• Experience in fast casual restaurant chains is preferred.
• Managed and developed 25+ team members per shift.
• Experience in managing P&L and COGS, budgeting, decision making, process improvement (lean, six sigma, EOS), labor management/scheduling, training & team development, and food quality assurance.
• Experience ensuring safe food handling at a large scale.
• Manager’s Food Safety Certification required (ServSafe Manager’s Certification).
• Ability to coordinate multiple tasks such as food, beverage + labor cost while maintaining standards of operation.
• Good communication skills for dealing with diverse staff.

Responsibilities

• Oversee a full-service BOH operation, with a quick-service FOH model.
• Lead the GM/Team Lead as the anchor of the store; be an enthusiastic leader, quick thinker, problem-solver, skilled communicator, and motivator.
• Execute day-to-day operations within the budget for the store, with emphasis on food, labor, and supplies.

Job description

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Profit sharing
• Training & development
• Competitive salary

About Ladybird Taco:

Ladybird Taco is a Texas inspired taco shop serving breakfast and lunch tacos on house-made tortillas from quality ingredients. We are on a mission to positively impact our communities through life-giving hospitality - we genuinely believe that lives are changed through care, humility, and excellence for our team and the communities we serve.

What you’ll get:

• A collaborative family of people who live our core values and have your back
• A clear career path with opportunities for development, both personally and professionally
• Flexible scheduling, because we respect the need for work/life harmony
• Competitive pay + bonus plan granted based on sales, labor + food costs
• Retention/Tenor bonuses ($10K at 3 years, and $15K at 5 years)
• ICHRA health coverage
• Free Ladybird swag
• And of course, complimentary Ladybird

What you’ve got:

• Ladybird Taco DNA for how we act:
  • Caring: be empathetic; seek to do good of those around you (team and guest)
  • Humble: eager to serve others; focused on others and not yourself; coachable
  • Hungry: driven to perform with excellence in all that you do; how you do anything is how you do everything
• 5+ years’ experience in restaurant management
• Experience in fast casual restaurant chains (preferred)
• Managed and developed 25+ team members per shift
• Experience in managing P&L and COGS, executing within a budget, decision making, process improvement (lean, six sigma, EOS), labor management/scheduling, training & team development, and food quality assurance
• Experience in ensuring safe food handling at a large scale
• Manager’s Food Safety Certification required (ServSafe Manager’s Certification)
• Ability to coordinate multiple tasks such as food, beverage + labor cost while maintaining required standards of operation in daily restaurant activities
• Must possess good communication skills for dealing with diverse staff

What you’ll do:

If you love running a balanced business, growing a team and creating an excellent guest experience, come work at Ladybird Taco. We’re looking for enthusiastic and ambitious individuals to lead our shops.

Every day in our shops, we make real food from scratch — you’ll oversee a full-service BOH operation, with a quick-service FOH model. The GM/Team Lead is the anchor of the store — you’re an enthusiastic leader, a quick thinker, a problem-solver, a skilled communicator, and a motivator.

You’ll be accountable for executing day to day in a way that aligns with our core values and within the budget for your store with particular emphasis on food + labor + supplies.

Ladybird Taco provides equal opportunities for everyone that works for us and everyone that applies to join our team, without regard to sex or gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, any service, past, present, or future, in the uniformed services of the United States (military or veteran status), or any other consideration protected by federal, state, or local law.