Restaurant Manager

Candlelite - over 70 years of serving Chicago's best tavern style pizza! 
Seeking an energetic, highly motivated restaurant Manager for our New Lincoln Park Restaurant. The Manager is responsible for supporting the daily business operations under the ownerships supervision, ensuring that the team delivers the required tasks with the highest quality and standards as set by the company. The ideal candidate will possess experience in the restaurant industry coupled with strong guest service knowledge. This individual will manage the staff and operations of the restaurant.

Responsibilities:

• Execute and maintain quality and consistency of food, beverage and service with full adherence to standards; act with a sense of urgency, be friendly, professional, and engaged

• Provide a warm and welcoming atmosphere, attentive, detailed, friendly, and courteous service

• Proactively interact with restaurant guests; build loyalty and face/name recognition

• Positively handle guest requests and accept feedback

• Regularly measure and evaluate service through restaurant service audits, and leveraging guest/employee feedback

• Maintain highest level of safety, security, sanitation, and cleanliness of restaurant

• Staff, train and develop guest-focused employees

• Sound decision making capability

• Assist with inventory counts, costs, and maintenance as specified by ownership

• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

• Scheduling

Skills & Requirements:

• Strong interpersonal skills (motivating, delegation, conflict management)

• 5 years of casual or fine dining experience preferred

• Beer knowledge a plus

• Ability to coordinate multiple tasks while maintaining standards of operations

• Strong problem-solving, organization and time management skills

• Excellent guest service and hospitality skills and professional presentation

• Ability to motivate employees to work as a team to ensure that food and service meet high level standards

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Self-motivated with excellent organizational skills and attention to detail

• Excellent planning, organization and follow-up skills

• Must be effective at listening, understanding and clarifying concerns and issues raised by guests

Physical Demands

• The physical demands for this position are seeing, hearing, speaking, reaching, frequently lifting up to 50 pounds, sitting, standing, for 4 to 8 hours, bending, and moving intermittently during working hours. These physical requirements may be accomplished with or without reasonable accommodations.

The duties of this position may change from time to time. Ownership reserves the right to add or delete duties and responsibilities at the discretion of ownership or its managers. This job description is intended to describe the general level of work being performed. It is not intended to be all-inclusive.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, creed, religion, gender (including gender identity or expression), pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, marital status, domestic violence, sexual violence or stalking victim status, ancestry, national origin, alienage or citizenship, age, disability, military or veteran status, genetic information or predisposing genetic characteristic, or other protected status.