Restaurant Operations Leader

Refuel Operating Company, LLC; Albemarle (NC); On-site; USD 48,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Refuel Operating Company, LLC is seeking a Restaurant Manager to lead a assigned restaurant, ensuring guest experience, food quality, and team performance. The role requires owning problems, guiding colleagues, and keeping store operations running smoothly.

You will recruit and develop staff, enforce food safety, manage inventory, control costs, and collaborate with district leadership. Must be flexible with hours, including weekends and holidays, and be able to travel up to 10%.

Qualifications

• Two years of experience managing a quick-service restaurant.
• Valid driver’s license.

Responsibilities

• Ensure customers have a great guest experience by keeping products hot, fresh and delicious.
• Manage and develop employees in the restaurant and ensure they are clean and neat in appearance.
• Ensure cleanliness of the property (restrooms, floors, coolers, kitchen, front counter, back-office, dining area, fountain area, sidewalk entrance).
• Uphold strict food safety standards.
• Navigate customer complaints with grace and escalate when unresolved.
• Rotate and store perishable products to maintain freshness and minimize spoilage.
• Actively recruit, interview, and staff store to operate at budgeted hours without overtime.
• Control inventory to maintain low shrinkage.
• Complete daily close-out paperwork and end-of-day accounting by 8:00 am; conduct weekly cash audit.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Team-building

Food service/safety experience

Job description

Refuel Operating Company, LLC is seeking a Restaurant Manager to lead a assigned restaurant, ensuring guest experience, food quality, and team performance. The role requires owning problems, guiding colleagues, and keeping store operations running smoothly.

You will recruit and develop staff, enforce food safety, manage inventory, control costs, and collaborate with district leadership. Must be flexible with hours, including weekends and holidays, and be able to travel up to 10%.