Who We Are: Playa Bowls is New Jersey’s Original Acai Shop™, and our mission is to bring super fruit bowls to the masses using only the freshest, highest quality ingredients while providing a fantastic in-store brand experience. What began as a pair of blenders, a patio table, and a fridge has flourished into 100+ stores, thousands of employees, and a mission to lead communities in healthy, sustainable living.
What We Offer:
- Competitive pay: We offer competitive base pay and a great bonus program!
- Advancement Opportunity: Our Playa Bowls training program will allow you to develop your skills and grow in your career!
- Fun Environment: We are always dancing, smiling & having lots of fun!
- Playa Discounts: Free food on each shift and 30% off when not working!
Who You Are: You’re a positive and enthusiastic people-person, who may just so happen to have a passion for fruit, superfoods, and all things healthy! As the General Manager, you will be doing a variety of tasks include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems. If you enjoy fast-paced environments, career growth, entrepreneurial thinking, innovation, and an occasional sillyfood pun, we want you!
What You’ll Do:
* Attend a 12 day paid training course in NJ
- Check products to ensure consistency, palatability, and flavor conformity.
- Investigate and resolve complaints regarding food quality, service, and accommodations.
- Schedule and receive food and beverage deliveries, checking delivery contents to verify product quality and quantity.
- Monitor food preparation methods, portion sizes, and garnishing and presentation of food to ensure that food is prepared and presented up to Company standards.
- Monitor budgets and timesheets.
- Schedule staff hours utilizing appropriate systems/software and assign duties to ensure economical use of food and timely preparation.
- Monitor compliance with health and fire regulations regarding food preparation and serving and building maintenance in lodging and dining facilities.
- Keep records required by government agencies regarding sanitation, and food subsidies when appropriate.
- Establish and evaluate standards for personnel performance and customer service.
- Review work procedures and operational issues to determine ways to improve service, performance, or safety.
- Perform some food preparation or service tasks such as clearing tables, re-stocking, and serving food and beverages when necessary.
- Maintain food and equipment inventories and keep periodic inventory records.
- Organize and direct worker training programs, resolve personnel matters, hire new staff, and evaluate employee performance in dining facilities.
- Order and purchase equipment and supplies.
- Assess staffing needs, and recruit staff using ADP Recruitment platform.
- Arrange for equipment maintenance and repairs and coordinate a variety of services such as waste removal and pest control.
- Utilize point of sale cash register. Count money and make bank deposits.
- Fill out business or government forms, maintain records, reports, files and safety reports.
- Adhere to Company opening and closing procedures and maintain accompanying records.
What You’ll Bring:
- Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer service. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
- Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
- Knowledge of raw materials, supply processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective supply and distribution of goods.
- Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
- Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
- Speaking to others to convey information effectively. Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches for both current and future problem-solving and decision- making. Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Using mathematics to solve problems.
- Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
- Controlling operations of equipment and systems. Monitoring equipment to ensure proper operation.
- Analyzing operational needs of business and adjust accordingly.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $60,000.00 - $90,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Paid time off
- Paid training
Experience level:
Restaurant type:
- Fast casual restaurant
- Quick service & fast food restaurant
Shift:
- Day shift
- Evening shift
- Morning shift
Weekly day range:
- Monday to Friday
- Weekends as needed
Application Question(s):
- Do you have experience managing people in the restaurant industry?
Are you able to work weekends?
License/Certification:
- Driver's License (Preferred)
- ServSafe (Preferred)
Ability to Commute:
- Chicago, IL 60647 (Required)
Work Location: In person