Restaurant General Manager - Toast

Leighenterprises; Temecula (CA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Complimentary food while working

Medical Benefits

Retirement Savings Program

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Toast Restaurants is seeking a General Manager to lead a high-performing team and deliver exceptional guest experiences. You will report to the Director of Operations and drive daily operations, training, and standards across front-of-house managers.

Strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills are essential, with a focus on safety compliance and cost control. The role offers competitive salary, benefits, and a supportive family-like culture with Monday–Sunday hours and a focus

Qualifications

• 3+ years of leadership and management experience in a high-volume restaurant
• 1 year of full-service bar experience
• Professional verbal and written communication skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Toast Tab or similar
• Open availability 6am–5pm, 7 days a week
• Experience managing a restaurant with 50+ employees

Responsibilities

• Provide direct leadership to front-of-house managers
• Train and support management on hiring, coaching, and performance evaluations
• Lead day-to-day restaurant operations and ensure health and safety compliance
• Maintain budgets and control operational costs
• Foster a positive, authentic, and professional team environment
• Communicate effectively with staff and BOH management

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Problem solving

Communication

Microsoft Office

Toast Tab

Tools

Toast Tab

Microsoft Office

Job description

Toast Restaurants is looking for that RIGHT PERSON to lead the best team in the County! That's right, you can be a part of our team's success! Just look at what they accomplish every day!

• Exceptional Guest Experience - don't take our word for it, check out our reviews!
• VIBE, VIBE, VIBE - creating positive vibes and having fun too!
• Staying ahead - our pace keeps us on our toes, and we stay ahead of it whenever possible!
• Team Success - Our success is accomplishing our #1 Daily goal "PROVIDE EXCEPTIONAL GUEST EXPERIENCES"

TOAST is looking for a General Manager who is passionate about exceptional guest experience and leading a high performing team! That's right! You get to lead and create memorable experiences! We're not kidding, it's true!

WAIT! Don't know who we are? Let us fill you in!

Come be a part of our TOAST family! We have been family owned AND operated! Our family feel will never get away from us no matter how much we grow! We like to start the day off right and invite our guests to do the same!

We pride ourselves on taking a fun and adventurous approach in the breakfast world by creating made-from-scratch dishes and offering local coffees & teas, craft beer and unique cocktails. We wanted to create a fun atmosphere where people can gather and enjoy themselves, sip on a coffee or cocktail and enjoy some good brunch all week long! Yes, Monday - Sunday, 7am - 3pm (no joke!)

GENERAL MANAGER EXPECTATIONS

“Live by passion, teamwork, integrity, determination, and excellence” We are looking for someone to join our Management Team reporting to the Director of Operations. They must have strong leadership and interpersonal communication skills, strong problem-solver, and someone who thrives while working under pressure in a fast-paced environment. You will be responsible for providing direct leadership to established team managers by developing and training them to meet our highest level of standards. You will lead by example demonstrating a commitment to exemplifying a positive, authentic, and professional image towards fellow team members and guests.

To be a successful General Manager, you will demonstrate strong leadership and management skills and ensure overall compliance with food/health and safety regulations. Ultimately, an exceptional General Manager should be able to handle stressful situations and achieve excellent customer service within their team and our guests.

Leadership

• Hands on approach leadership. Be able to effectively be a team leader and shift manager as needed to support your team
• Directly manages team leaders for all front of house operations – 1 team leader per team (Hosts, Bussers, Food runners, Servers, and Bar)
• Trains and provides support to management team on all levels of management: Hiring, Terminations, Coaching, Recognition/Reward, Training, Effective Communication, effectively building and maintaining morale
• Responsible for the day-to-day operations of the restaurant
• Ensure compliance with all health and safety regulations at all times
• Ongoing and effective communication with your management team and staff
• Maintains a strong working relationship with the BOH management to ensure comradery and unity between the entire restaurant
• Responsible for overall budgets, operational costs and maintaining cost efficiency

Guest Experience

• Maintain an environment of excellence in execution and high standards
• Provide training and support on proven proactive methods of resolving guest concerns and issues
• Implements protocol in areas of opportunity to improve overall guest experience
• Ensures management and team is focused on building guest relationships

REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum 3 years of leadership and management experience at a high-volume restaurant
• 1 year of full-service bar experience
• Professional verbal and written communication skills
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office, 7 shifts or similar products, Toast Tab or similar
• Open Availability from 6am - 5pm, 7 days a week
• Has managed an entire restaurant with at least 50 employees

All positions often include lifting/moving/loading of 25-pound items and occasionally up to 75 pounds. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, talk or hear, use hands and/or reach with hands and arms, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, taste and smell. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, at least 20" or less; distant vision at 20' or more and color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors), peripheral vision (ability to observe an area that can be seen up and own or to the left and right while eyes are fixed on a given point), depth perception (three-dimensional vision, ability to judge distances and spatial relationships), and the ability to adjust focus.

Almost Done! Yes, we pay you too! That's right! Great Salary, food, discounts, time off, and you get to join the TOAST Family!

MANAGEMENT BENEFITS / SALARY

• Competitive Salary (Starting Salary $85k)
• Complimentary food while working
• Employee discounts
• Manager Meal Incentive Program
• Medical Benefits
• Retirement Savings Program
• Paid Time Off

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