Restaurant Manager - JOEY Uptown

Workstream; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Health benefits

Shift meals discount

Employee discount

Referral bonuses

Sales contests

Paid vacation

Paid sick leave

Job summary

JOEY Restaurants in Houston is seeking a Restaurant Manager to lead a multi-million-dollar operation and develop a high-performing team. You will drive guest experience, uphold service standards, and execute quarterly goals with a people-first mindset.

Responsibilities include recruiting, coaching, budgeting, and ensuring food safety while delivering memorable hospitality. You will foster a collaborative culture, mentor staff, and uphold our iconic hospitality brand.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering world-class hospitality in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong leadership and coaching skills guiding diverse teams.
• Excellent communication and guest-relations abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cohesive team to provide exemplary hospitality.
• Ensure friendly, attentive guest service throughout dining.
• Manage store sales, budgets, cost of goods, and labor.
• Recruit, train, and develop team members.
• Coach staff to uphold service and experience standards.
• Communicate daily focus to service and kitchen teams.
• Follow all food and alcohol safety procedures.

Skills

Hospitality

Leadership

Guest service

Communication

Team development

Job description

This is about YOU. Your passion, purpose, and potential. When you join the JOEY team, you can expect a warm, inclusive and creative environment. We are committed to training, educating, and empowering our people, and we live by our culture of People Development. JOEY Restaurants is all about opportunity and our success is directly attributable to our exceptional, team-oriented, and performance-driven partners (employees).

As a Restaurant Manager, you will directly contribute to the overall success of a multi-million-dollar Restaurant and its people. In this role, you will be responsible for attracting, retaining, and developing a high performing team, while driving their personal growth. You will efficiently deliver and execute quarterly strategic planning goals while upholding the highest standards in product, profit, environment and experience.

Duties

• Foster a cohesive and collaborative team environment through exemplary leadership.
• Provide guests with friendly and attentive service throughout their dining experience. Show them what Iconic Hospitality means!
• Resolve service issues and guest complaints with a sense of urgency, poise, and good judgment. It’s Your Business.
• Assist with managing store sales, budgets, cost of goods, and labor.
• Supervise and guide our service and experience standards and provide impactful coaching as needed.
• Build sales opportunities and positive guest experiences.
• Fulfill recruitment needs, impact positive candidate experience and selection and retain your team.
• Support with training and development of technical knowledge and execution.
• Communicate daily focus and feedback to service and kitchen teams.
• Follow all food and alcohol service and handling safety precautions and procedures.

Basic Qualifications

• 1-3+ years leadership experience (If you have high potential but less experience, we still want to meet you!).
• Must have or be able to obtain valid local and/or state Food Handler and Alcohol Server/Seller permits.
• Possess a passion for hospitality and a proven track record of creating world‑class hospitality experiences.
• Thrive in a dynamic, fast‑paced work environment.
• Be able to walk and stand for prolonged periods of time; frequent bending, reaching, and stretching; repetitive manual tasks; and lift and carry up to 50lbs.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Successful employees at JOEY are genuine, warm, and caring.
• They value honesty and conduct themselves with integrity.
• They are comfortable providing and receiving feedback to achieve personal growth and performance excellence.
• They are natural problem solvers with an insatiable desire to positively impact individual and team execution.
• They are passionate about quality and professionalism.
• They possess exceptional relationship building and communication skills.
• They encourage healthy and supportive competition within their team.
• They exude confidence, humility, and respect.
• They take pride in presenting a professional appearance and demeanor.

Benefits

• Career development, education, and growth opportunities.
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, medical reimbursement plan, and Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for benefit‑eligible partners.
• Discounted employee shift meals.
• 10% discount for self and guests on all food and beverages when visiting any JOEY location.
• Discounted clothing retailer partnership.
• Referral bonus program.
• Sales competitions and rewards.
• Paid vacation
• Paid sick leave

If you're looking for a place to meet your potential, we'd like to meet you. Roll up your sleeves... YOUR journey starts here.

JOEY Restaurants is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.

We are committed to offering reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants.