Restaurant General Manager

SWEETFIN is a fast-casual, chef-driven poké concept with stores in Los Angeles and San Diego. Sweetfin reimagines Hawaii's traditional "soul food" with its delicious, healthful poké bowls. The fresh, fast-casual restaurant serves up both customizable and signature bowls from a menu created by former TOP CHEF Dakota Weiss. We are looking for a Restaurant General Manager to join our team.

What We Offer:

• Competitive Salary + Bonus
• Employer Paid Benefits Package
• Cell phone stipend
• Meal and travel reimbursement
• PTO and paid holidays
• Exciting opportunities for growth

FINANCIAL

• Responsible for meeting the overall operational financial performance of the restaurant.
• Ensure and hold direct reports accountable for meeting and controlling operating expenses and established targets.
• You will also be responsible for managing your stores accounts payable, banking and deposits, and utilize the company provided budget templates.
• Manage operating P&L budgets/metrics and understands how production expenditures/costs impact business margins for weekly, monthly and yearly time parameters.
• Responsible for budget and profit (forecast) responsibility and ensuring cost control through declining budgets and other methods.

RECRUITMENT & TRAINING

• Responsible for developing, managing and coaching all FOH and BOH staff to high-performance values.
• Assist in the recruitment, selection, training, and development of restaurant management and teams.
• Foster a positive, team-oriented environment with a healthy competitive spirit that ensures the sharing of best practices amongst different positions.
• Communicate and impart Sweetfin culture and core values to team members. Assist in Sweetfin corporate culture initiatives.

OPERATIONS

• The General Manager may directly perform hands-on operational work as necessary to select and train new staff members, respond to immediate customer service needs, or to otherwise role-model appropriate skills and behaviors in the restaurant.
• Maintain Sweetfin standards in food safety, store safety, overall quality control.
• Provide guidance and leadership in the delivery of outstanding guest experience, culinary operations, labor scheduling, inventory management (spot check for food, beverage and supplies), restaurant marketing and restaurant P&L.
• Identify maintenance needs and ensure maintenance log adherence.
• Process payroll, food/product orders, and complete weekly/monthly/quarterly/annual tasks and checklists in a timely manner and communicate any barriers to your direct report supervisor

MARKETING

• Drive top-line sales performance by fostering customer connections through community marketing, throughput and technology initiatives, and new product launches.
• Follow the marketing schedule and guidelines set forth by our marketing department.
• A minimum of two (2) hours a week is to be dedicated to local store marketing (LSM).Monitor collateral assets to stay ‘in brand’

FACILITIES

• Ensure that all equipment and fixtures are operating as they were designed.
• Communicate any deficient/broken equipment needs to your direct report supervisor.
• Ensure that pest control services are conducted on a monthly basis, and keep records of all services.