Restaurant Manager: Lead Growth & Guest Experience

California Pizza Kitchen, Inc.; Kapolei (HI); On-site; USD 70,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

All-you-can-eat pizza

Manager meals

Dine-Out card

Benefits package

Job summary

California Pizza Kitchen is seeking a front-of-house restaurant leader to drive guest satisfaction and team success. You will guide a hospitality-focused team, ensuring exceptional service and culinary execution across daily operations.

Ideal candidates have at least two years of FOH management experience in a high-volume environment, strong verbal and written communication, and a passion for hospitality and service.

Qualifications

• Minimum of two years FOH management experience in a high volume, faced paced restaurant.
• Strong communication skills – verbal and written.
• Exceptional leadership skills – ability to motivate, inspire and develop a team.
• Passionate about execution, hospitality and service.
• While performing the duties of this job the employee is frequently exposed to computer terminals.
• The noise level and temperature is moderate.
• The employee has the ability to sit, stand and/or walk for up to 10 hours a day.
• The employee is occasionally required to stoop, bend or kneel, lift up to 40 lbs. and perform other diverse physical tasks as needed.
• The vision requirements include: close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Responsibilities

• Delivering a phenomenal guest experience.
• Leading and inspiring the team with a people-first mentality to build on CPK's best in class culture.
• Building a team around hospitality and culinary execution and developing top talent to drive the business forward - fostering career growth and cross training for the team.
• Building sales, profitability, and guest counts.
• Managing the P&L for the restaurant.
• Meeting financial objectives by forecasting, adjusting labor expenditures, practicing portion controls, preparing budgets, and analyzing variances.
• Utilizing excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, to effectively interact with employees, guests, suppliers and senior management.
• Maintaining a safe and healthy environment by establishing, following, and complying with sanitation standards and procedures

Skills

FOH management experience

Communication skills

Leadership

Job description

California Pizza Kitchen is seeking a front-of-house restaurant leader to drive guest satisfaction and team success. You will guide a hospitality-focused team, ensuring exceptional service and culinary execution across daily operations.

Ideal candidates have at least two years of FOH management experience in a high-volume environment, strong verbal and written communication, and a passion for hospitality and service.