Restaurant Manager/Kitchen Manager

Not Your Average Joe's; Acton (MA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Insurance benefits

Bonus opportunities

A great work atmosphere

Paid Time Off

Meals every shift

Job summary

Not Your Average Joe’s is seeking an Assistant Restaurant Manager to lead day-to-day operations in both dining room and kitchen, including line work. You will report to the General Manager and oversee hourly staff, ensuring quality standards, recipe adherence, and consistent guest experience.

You will collaborate with the GM and Chef on marketing and contribute to overall financial results while fostering a friendly, energetic, and team-oriented culture in a high-volume restaurant in Acton.

Qualifications

• Experience managing a full-service restaurant at a supervisory level.
• Strong leadership and communication skills with a focus on team development.
• Knowledge of food and beverage operations and service standards.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the restaurant is fully staffed across shifts while maintaining guest experience.
• Interview, train, coach, and supervise staff to meet standards.
• Ensure training materials, schedules, and development are followed.
• Communicate clearly with all team members and foster a harassment-free environment.
• Manage labor and adjust schedules while safeguarding guest experience.
• Achieve budgeted sales and profits and maintain operational excellence.
• Ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and company policies.
• Create an enjoyable restaurant atmosphere for patrons and employees.
• Perform additional tasks as needed.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Training

F&B Knowledge

Staff Scheduling

Customer Service

Job description

Job Overview

As the Assistant Restaurant Manager, you will play a pivotal role in the day-to-day operations of our restaurant in the dining room as well as the kitchen. This management position will require being able to run shifts in the FOH as well as the HOH, working on the line included. Reporting to the General Manager, you will oversee all hourly positions, providing leadership and ensuring the consistent execution of our quality standards, proper recipe adhearance, operating systems, procedures, philosophies, and culture. You will work closely with the General Manager and Chef, assisting in marketing and playing a pivotal role in overall financial results of the restaurant. We are seeking a friendly, energetic, and team-oriented individual with a passion for making a difference in the hospitality industry.

We Offer

• Competitive compensation


• Insurance benefits


• Bonus opportunities


• A great work atmosphere


• Paid Time Off


• Meals every shift

Duties/Responsibilities

• Ensuring that our restaurant is fully and appropriately staffed at all times


• Interviews, trains, counsels, and coaches staff


• Ensures all training materials, development and schedules are being followed


• Clearly communicating with all Team Members


• Ensures a harassment-free environment for all Team Members


• Manages and makes adjustments to labor on a shift-to-shift basis while ensuring we don't harm the Guest experience


• Achieves budgeted sales and profit goals


• Maintaining operational excellence so our restaurant is running efficiently and effectively


• Ensuring that all laws, regulations, and guidelines are being followed


• Creating a restaurant atmosphere that both patrons and employees enjoy


• Various other tasks as needed

Requirements

• Previous experience in a FULL SERVICE restaurant as a manager


• Extensive food and beverage knowledge, and the ability to remember and recall ingredients and dishes to inform customers and wait staff


• Great leadership skills


• Familiarity with restaurant management software


• Demonstrated ability to coordinate a staff


• Exhibits a neat, clean, and professional image at all times


• Genuinely hospitable, warm, sensitive, and polite to our Guests


• Excellent problem resolution/Guest recovery skills


• Attention to detail/organized


• Able to work while standing and moving at a rapid pace for 10 hours as the job requires


• Dependable, trustworthy


• Team player

Who We Are

As you may know, Not Your Average Joe’s is a neighborhood scratch kitchen that’s been in business for almost 30 years, and serves our communities, family and friends.

Everything we do is done with love, passion, and pride, with the simple goal of creating memorable dining experiences.

But it’s not just about what we do, but more so who we are.

Our core values of being guest obsessed and serving great food influence not just how we do business but are the cornerstone of the fun and welcoming environment we create here at Not Your Average Joe’s.

Our focus in all our hires is not just to ensure you’re the best fit for us, But that we’re the best fit for you as well.