Manager

Applebee's Grill & Bar; Savoy (IL); On-site; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Manager meals - free

Closed Christmas and Thanksgiving

Health Insurance

401K

Vacations

Personal Days

Flexible work schedule

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Short Term Disability

Online Universities

College Scholarships

Job summary

Applebee's Grill & Bar in Savoy, IL seeks an experienced Restaurant Manager to lead daily restaurant operations, ensuring prompt, friendly service and adherence to brand standards. You will supervise shifts, coach a team, manage costs, and maintain safety and sanitation while fostering a guest-focused culture.

Responsibilities include staff scheduling, training, inventory control, and ensuring quality food presentation. A strong emphasis on leadership and operational excellence drives this role.

Responsibilities

• Manages restaurant environment by ensuring prompt, friendly service and directs overall shift-by-shift activities of associates.
• Builds a culture aligned with the Vision/Mission to guide teamwork, results, integrity, passion for service, fun, balance, innovation, and guest focus.
• Addresses guest concerns promptly, correcting verbal complaints with staff and escalating to the General Manager as needed.
• Maintains high guest contact, targeting 100% table visitation as a priority with staff.
• Enforces alcohol awareness and maintains safety and sanitation standards across shifts.
• Maintains inventory levels and ensures product preparation and presentation meet company standards.
• Schedules associates effectively to meet sales demands and control costs.
• Keeps safety and security programs compliant with policy and government standards.
• Maintains organizational cleanliness and sanitation; performs routine maintenance and informs GM of repairs.
• Develops managers and hourly associates through training, coaching, and evaluations.
• Drives compliance with policies and acts as a coach to associates.
• Manages cost controls, asset protection, and cash handling; conducts inventories and submits daily paperwork to the GM.
• Develops goals and action plans for personal and professional growth, modeling professional behavior and store tech skills.
• Communicates with other managers daily via log and shift-change meetings.
• Completes all assigned duties in a timely manner.

Job description

SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES

1. Manages Restaurant Environment

• Ensures prompt friendly service according to company guidelines.
• Directs overall activities and performance of associates on a shift-by-shift basis.
• Builds a culture using the Vision/Mission Statement to guide teamwork, results, integrity, passion for service, fun, balance, innovation, and being guest driven.
• Ensures the immediate response and correction of all verbal guest complaints by self and staff. Refers all verbal and written guest complaints to General Manager.
• Ensures guest contact as a priority with self and staff utilizing a target goal of 100% table visitation.
• Enforces alcohol awareness on a shift to shift basis.
• Maintains adequate departmental inventory levels.
• Ensures product preparation and presentation uncompromisingly meeting company standards.
• Effectively schedules associates to meet sales demands.
• Maintains effective safety and security programs according to company policy and government standards.
• Corrects unsafe practices or conditions.
• Promotes and manages restaurant organization, cleanliness, and sanitation.
• Performs routine maintenance and immediately informs General Manager of needed repairs.
• Advises General Manager of any non-routine situations.
• Communicates with other managers daily through management log and shift change meetings.
• Completes all other assigned duties and responsibilities.

2. Manages Associate Performance

• Promotes quality recruitment and referrals of potential management candidates.
• Promotes A.S.I. training procedures of new managers.
• Helps maintain a trained staff through effective use of employment orientation, individual training sessions, associate meetings, and implementation of company policy.
• Determines job assignments on a shift-by-shift basis.
• Develops an environment of constant development of managers including informal shift reviews and participates in the development of written evaluations every six months.
• Assesses the effectiveness of associates, provides candid and fair feedback on a regular basis, and continuously works with associates on their areas of development.
• Conducts thorough Selecting Service Performers interviews.
• Demonstrates proper execution of training systems as outlined by the company while emphasizing the importance of training to management and associates.
• Monitors acceptable associate performance and documents situations that require or could lead to disciplinary or corrective action.
• Assures compliance with company policies, practices, and procedures.
• Acts as coach to all associates.

3. Maintain Controls

• Control costs in assigned department.
• Maintains and controls the assets of the company.
• Assures compliance with local, state, and federal laws, regulations, and guidelines.
• Reports progress towards achieving restaurant performance objectives at management meetings.
• Complies with all cash handling procedures.
• Executes weekly food and liquor inventories/costs at the General Manager’s request and is accountable for completion.
• Responsible for preparing and submitting accurate daily paperwork to the General Manager.

4. Development

• Is responsible to the General Manager for the development of Managers and Key Hourly Associates.
• Inspires cooperation and teamwork from associates by building a culture derived from The Bloomin’ Apple Mission/Vision Statement.
• Is guest obsessed and promotes the team to be.
• Demonstrates organizational skills.
• Completes all assignments and duties properly and on schedule.
• Develops goals and action plans for personal/professional growth.
• Provides a role model for managers and associates.
• Exhibits a professional image.
• Develops self on all store related technology.

BENEFITS

• Manager meals - free
• Closed Christmas and Thanksgiving
• Health Ins
• 401K
• Vacations
• Personal Days
• Flexible work schedule
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Short Term Disability
• Online Universities
• College Scholarships