Opening-Phase General Manager – High-Volume Fine Dining

Aspire Talent Solutions; Freehold (NJ); Sur place; USD 120 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Aspire Talent Solutions seeks an experienced General Manager to lead a new high-volume dining concept from opening onward. You will shape culture, standards, and operations, balancing guest experiences with financial objectives.

As a hands-on leader, you will recruit and develop a strong management team, optimize labor, COGS, and P&L, and partner with culinary and HR to ensure consistency and growth. A focus on hospitality and accountability is essential.

Qualifications

• Proven General Manager experience in a high-volume, polished full-service restaurant.
• Seafood, raw bar, steakhouse, or elevated dining experience strongly preferred.
• New restaurant opening experience highly preferred.
• Strong understanding of food, wine, spirits, cocktails, and elevated service.
• Strong floor presence and ability to control service during high-volume periods.
• Ability to recruit, train, develop, and retain a strong management and hourly team.
• Excellent understanding of labor, scheduling, COGS, inventory, purchasing, and P&L performance.
• Strong understanding of reservation management, pacing, and maximizing restaurant capacity.
• Extremely organized with strong attention to detail.
• Comfortable holding managers and employees accountable.
• Able to establish systems and standards rather than simply inherit them.
• Strong guest recovery and problem-solving skills.
• Genuine hospitality mentality with the ability to create memorable guest experiences.
• Comfortable working closely with culinary leadership and senior leadership.
• Ability to think beyond daily operations and contribute to the continued growth of the restaurant.
• Protecting the asset of the business through all avenues including but not limited to ABC regulations, theft, and overall workplace culture.
• Work directly with our HR partner and accounting teams

Responsabilités

• Oversee all day-to-day restaurant operations.
• Recruit, hire, train, coach, and develop management and hourly employees.
• Maintain service, hospitality, cleanliness, and operational standards.
• Manage scheduling and labor performance.
• Monitor sales, COGS, inventory, purchasing, comps, voids, cash controls, and other key financial metrics.
• Work closely with culinary leadership to maintain consistency between FOH and BOH.
• Manage reservations, pacing, table turns, and overall restaurant flow.
• Lead management meetings, pre-shifts, training, and continued employee development.
• Maintain a strong management presence on the floor.
• Handle guest feedback and recovery while developing relationships with regular guests.
• Maintain organization, cleanliness, facility standards, and restaurant readiness.
• Identify operational problems and create solutions before they become larger issues.
• Develop managers and identify future leaders within the organization.
• Maintain a positive, professional, accountable workplace culture

Connaissances

High-volume restaurant leadership

Full-service dining

New opening experience

Labor management

P&L understanding

Hospitality excellence

Guest relations

Description du poste

Aspire Talent Solutions seeks an experienced General Manager to lead a new high-volume dining concept from opening onward. You will shape culture, standards, and operations, balancing guest experiences with financial objectives.

As a hands-on leader, you will recruit and develop a strong management team, optimize labor, COGS, and P&L, and partner with culinary and HR to ensure consistency and growth. A focus on hospitality and accountability is essential.