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Bottleneck Management

Shift Lead (Red Shirt)

Chicago, IL · On-site

$14.25 - $17.50/hr

Shift Lead (Red Shirt) The Shift Lead (Red Shirt) role is an entry-level leadership position designed to help you develop the skills needed for a successful management career. Through Bottleneck ...

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Lenexa, KS · On-site

$50K - $60K/yr

Red Shirt Report - 85%+ * Team Member Experience - 90%+ * OSAT - 80%+ The Fun Stuff * The most important qualification of this role is a personal commitment to our Vision * Starting pay: 50k-60k ...

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Shift Lead (Red Shirt)

Bottleneck Management

Chicago, IL • On-site

$14.25 - $17.50/hr

Full-time

Retirement, PTO

Posted 17 days ago

Job description

Position: Shift Lead (Red Shirt)
The Shift Lead (Red Shirt) role is an entry-level leadership position designed to help you develop the skills needed for a successful management career. Through Bottleneck Management's Red Shirt Program, you will gain hands-on leadership experience while completing projects, discussion-based learning, online courses, and operational training focused on our systems, expectations, and the principles of effective leadership and management. This initiative-driven program allows participants to progress at their own pace, with most completing the program in approximately six months. High-performing individuals may have opportunities to advance more quickly based on demonstrated leadership ability, performance, and initiative.
Who is Bottleneck Management?
Bottleneck Management operates vibrant, high-energy, approachable restaurants in the most dynamic neighborhoods and locations. From the start, we've been about genuine people and genuine hospitality. We've grown into a crowd-pleasing hospitality juggernaut while continuing to hold our core values close to our hearts.
Core Values
Understand the wants and needs of others
Support others through words and actions
Empower each team member to excel
Enjoy each other, our guests, and our time at work
We believe it's our people that make us strong, so we're committed to finding driven, hospitable, upbeat, and intelligent teammates. Whether it's in our home office or our restaurants, we put hospitality first, like excellent hosts at a party.
We offer a fun and supportive working environment, comprehensive benefits, 401k, a generous PTO plan, EAP access, and restaurant dining discounts.
Primary Responsibilities and Duties
Essential Functions:
  • Promotes and instills Bottleneck Management philosophies and operational standards
  • Fosters an environment of inclusion and unity at all levels
  • Commitment to guest-first mentality through a "lead by example" approach
  • Carries, communicates, and embodies the Bottleneck culture
  • Opening/closing the restaurant
  • Micros proficiency including all staff POS functions, manager functions and select chef functions
  • Understanding and adherence to all Bottleneck Management standard operating procedures
  • Expediting food in a timely manner with the utmost quality
  • Food and beverage quality management
  • Understand labor management systems
  • Comply with and enforce sanitation regulations and safety standards

FOH Duties:
  • Guest relations- performing 100% table touches, guest complaint resolution, and driving guest loyalty
  • Host stand acumen including effectively managing the host stand and executing Open Table
  • Understand service standards, and able to assist in every workgroup during the shift

HOH Duties:
  • Dish and line station set up, break down and running
  • Line check, station prep sheet, All SOP awareness and adherence

Qualifications and Skills:
  • High School Diploma Required, College Coursework/Degree Preferred
  • Minimum 6 months employed with Bottleneck Management
  • Must be in satisfactory performance standing with Bottleneck Management

Our Ideal Candidate:
  • Outstanding interpersonal skills
  • Outgoing and full of energy
  • Polished go-getter
  • Polite & patient
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Satisfaction focused

Supervisory Responsibilities: Floor/Staff Management
Reports to: General Manager/Executive Chef
Department: FOH/HOH Operations
Compensation:
Please visit our Careers Page to view and learn more about payrates
Hours of work: Ability to work a variable schedule, including weekends
Work Environment/Physical Demand:
  • Must be able to stand for full shift.
  • Must be able to lift at least 50 pounds.
  • Must have good hearing for accurate communication with guests.
  • Must be able to use hands and fingers to handle and feel objects, tools controls and type.
  • Must be able to work in areas with loud noises.
  • Required to frequently reach, bend, stoop, and carry.
  • Must be able to work in both warm and cool environments; indoors and outdoors.
  • Must be able to tolerate potential exposure to allergens: peanut products, egg, dairy, gluten, soy, seafood, and shellfish.
  • Extended periods of standing and walking to different parts of the restaurant at different levels.
  • Fast paced hands on position.
  • Dining facilities are both outside and inside.
  • Lighting is maintained at a low level.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This is not necessarily an all-inclusive list of job-related responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned.
Bottleneck Management provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
An equal opportunity employer.
We adhere to E-Verify procedures where applicable in accordance with federal regulations.
Equal Opportunity Employer
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.

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