General Manager

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We are looking for a hard‑working, friendly, dedicated, and self‑motivated person to fill a General Manager position. Must have management experience.

This job posting is for a position in a restaurant owned and operated by an independent franchisee and not McDonald’s USA. This franchisee owns a license to use McDonald’s logos and food products, and is a separate company and employer. If hired, the franchisee is your employer, not McDonald’s USA. The franchisee is responsible for all employment matters, and McDonald’s USA has no involvement in hiring, firing, discipline, supervision, staffing, or scheduling.

McDonald’s Works for Me.

I’m going places. I want a satisfying career with good benefits and great opportunities for advancement. I have a lot to offer and I want to grow.

The Job for Me – Get a job that inspires your best and moves you forward. Choose your hours. Pursue your education. Build your skills and be yourself.

The Team for Me – Our people want to say YES — to working with energy and purpose, finding new talent, providing coaching and direction, honing their leadership skills, and helping to run a business that serves up delicious food and feel‑good moments. Does this sound like you? You’ll fit right in.

The Company for Me – From here, you can go further than you thought possible. Reach your goals and build your future with college tuition assistance, valuable job training, and retirement benefits.

Let’s talk. Make your move.

The General Manager is responsible for running a profitable restaurant and for ensuring the restaurant meets McDonald’s critical customer standards of Quality, Service, and Cleanliness. The General Manager works with his/her leader to set the restaurant’s goals and creates a plan to achieve them.

To meet restaurant goals, the General Manager leads a team of Department Managers. This includes helping Department Managers set their own goals, following up on progress, and providing coaching and direction to improve their departments. Improving the departments improves the restaurant.

The General Manager may also be responsible for hiring and developing Department and Shift Managers, ensuring the restaurant has the right team for the future.

Ideal candidates should have previous General Manager experience running high‑volume locations. A background in quick‑service restaurants is strongly desired, or experience in hospitality or retail. You must be 18 years or older to be a manager in our corporate owned and operated restaurants.

• Paid vacations
• Personal days
• Education through Archways to Opportunity (high school degree, college tuition assistance, English classes)
• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Profit sharing plan – Retirement Plan
• Short‑ and long‑term disability, life and accident insurance
• Service awards
• Quarterly and end‑of‑the‑year bonus programs

This job posting contains some information about what it is like to work in a McDonald’s restaurant, but it is not a complete job description. People who work there perform a number of different tasks each day, and this posting does not list all essential functions of the job.

By applying to this position, I understand that I am applying to work at a restaurant that is owned and operated by an independent franchisee, not McDonald’s USA. I understand that this franchisee is a separate company and employer from McDonald’s USA. Any information I provide will be submitted only to the franchisee. I acknowledge that McDonald’s USA will not receive a copy of my application and will have no involvement in employment decisions.