General Manager

Buona; Naperville (IL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

401(k) with Company Match

Bonuses (quarterly)

Job summary

Buona in Naperville, IL, is seeking a GMIT role designed to develop future General Managers. The Managing Partner Program offers a path to ownership, profit sharing, and long-term leadership within Buona. The role emphasizes sales targets, staff development, and strong operational controls.

You will lead shifts, manage budgets, and drive performance across restaurant operations, with opportunities for advancement into senior leadership and ownership track.

Qualifications

• Experience leading 10+ team members per shift
• Budget, payroll, revenue, and forecasting knowledge
• Strong knowledge of restaurant practices, concepts, and procedures
• Excellent administrative, multitasking, organizational, and prioritizing skills
• Strong leadership and communication abilities

Responsibilities

• Achieve sales targets
• Recognize revenue areas and development strategies to impact sales
• Enforce advertising, marketing plans, HR and training materials
• Manage and control direct expenses
• Direct labor, food cost variances, repairs and maintenance, discounts and other direct expenses
• Select, retain, supervise, and train all employees
• Conduct quarterly reviews
• Adhere to established training programs
• Determine advancement/termination of staff
• Develop employees into shift managers
• Provide guidance to the team and lead them toward success
• Embrace our balanced corporate structure and family culture
• Enforce policies, procedures, and controls

Skills

Team leadership

Budget & forecasting

Restaurant operations

Administration & multitasking

Leadership & communication

Job description

Salary Range:

$65,000 - $85,000/annually

Job Summary:

Our GMIT role is designed to develop future General Managers — and for those who excel, our Managing Partner Program creates a pathway to deeper ownership, profit-sharing opportunity, and long-term leadership within the Buona organization.

Responsibilities:

• Achieve sales targets
• Recognize all revenue areas & development strategies to impact sales
• Enforce and execute advertising and marketing plans, and HR and training materials
• Manage and control direct expenses
• Direct labor, food cost variances, repairs and maintenance, discounts, and other direct expenses
• Selection, retention, supervision, and training of all employees
• Conduct quarterly reviews
• Adhere to established training programs
• Determine advancement/termination
• Develop employees into shift managers
• Provide guidance to our talented & motivated team and lead them toward success
• Embrace our balanced corporate structure and strong, family-culture
• Enforce policies, procedures, and controls

Qualifications and Skills:

• Ability to lead 10+ team members per shift
• Ability to work with budgets, payroll, revenue, and forecasting
• Strong knowledge of commonly used restaurant practices, concepts, and procedures
• Strong administrative, multi-tasking, organizational, and prioritizing skills
• Strong leadership and communication skills

Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, Vision & Life Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• 401(k) with 4% Employer Match
• Quarterly and periodic bonuses
• Work/Life Balance + PTO
• Referral Programs ($1500 per referred manager)
• Training & Development Programs
• Restaurant & Catering Discount