Shift Leader

Overview of position:  As shift lead, your focus is on ensuring that all food and drink are delivered to our guests at the highest quality. This position offers direct opportunity for growth as the restaurant grows. As shift lead, you are responsible for overseeing the kitchen during the crucial dinner day part.. The ideal candidate has run expo in high volume restaurants, has experience managing more than 5 employees and / or has experience in scratch restaurants on the line. Mostly afternoons and evenings. 

*Must have anytime availability including nights and weekends.

Responsibilities:

• Oversees the performance of the team during service

• Completes daily line checks of all food on the line, and maintains a clean restaurant, including ensuring that product is stored at correct temperatures

• Ensures that all team members get their state mandated breaks in the correct time windows.

• Ensures that all recipes and sub recipes are prepared according to SPG training materials and recipe guides. 

• Takes a leadership role in suggesting process improvements.

• Owns the communication of total prep needs between night crew and day crew to ensure a consistent production schedule.

• Writes daily prep list at end of night to set up team for success

• Provide guidance and leadership to all team members, delegating effectively as needed to ensure the restaurant is ready for service.

• Ordering: Owns ordering for Cooks Company, Golden Gate Meat, Birite Foodservice.

• Collaborates with other management to create a positive, professional and effective working environment.

• Ensures that all daily, weekly and monthly deep cleaning tasks are completed. 

Ideal Candidate:

• At least 5 years experience in high volume, fine dining or production kitchens

• Has an appreciation for modern restaurant operations and the realities of labor in metropolitan areas

• Conversational or kitchen Spanish

• Not afraid of a computer or willing to learn any and everything

• Has supervised or managed before

• Has a sense of humor

• California Food Handler Card (SPG to pay for ServSafe Manager Cert. after 6 months)

• Interested in helping build systems as our organization grows and scales

• Manages their and others’ time well

Has a sense of humor
Directly Reports to: General Manager, Assistant General Manager
Growth Opportunities: Senior Shift Lead, Assistant General Manager, General Manager, Regional Manager, District Manager,  Training Manager, Store Opener