Associate Manager, Restaurant​/Food Service

Crafting distinctively delicious food starts early morning in Au Bon Pain cafe. While our bakers line the shelves with hot, freshly baked pastries, muffins, bagels and scones, other team members brew our rich coffee and espresso blends from the highest-quality Arabica beans, set up the health smart oatmeal bar, and prepare dozens of fresh eggs for nourishing breakfast sandwiches. Their passion for quality and freshness continues throughout the day with mouthwatering sandwiches and wraps served on freshly baked breads;

hearty soups, stews and macaroni and cheese; enticing salads topped with our signature dressings; and assortments of cut and whole fresh fruit; cheese and crackers; energy bars; nuts; yogurt and indulgent cupcakes, cookies and brownies.

Au Bon Pain caters to today's sophisticated but time-constrained customer in many ways. One day you may enjoy a made‑to‑order customized sandwich or salad, designed by you and prepared just the way you like it. And the next day, you may only have time to grab a pre‑made salad, sandwich, wrap or snack. But no matter how you shop Au Bon Pain, we promise that our food will always be delicious and fresh and our service fast and friendly.

Au Bon Pain--Taste the goodness in every flavor‑full bite!

The Associate Manager contributes to Au Bon Pain’s success by ensuring our ‘Guest First’ service and café standards are met. The Associate Manager assists the General Manager with daily operating procedures, such as maintaining café operations, ensuring product quality, maximizing financial contributions, and supervising the development of the Shift Supervisors and hourly café team members.

Key Position Responsibilities

Assists in providing leadership in the café by ensuring adherence to allAu Bon Pain guidelines and standards and by creating an environment that promotes team work and a guest‑first philosophy during assigned shift.

Assists in meeting the café financial objectives by analyzing variances, controlling labor, food cost and other financial controls.

Maintains the integrity of the safe, cash drawers and deposits during assigned shift and notifies the General Manager of any anomalies with the cash.

Ensures the adherence to the Au Bon Pain cash handling policy by all crew members on assigned shift.

Assist in the recruitment, selection, training and development of qualified Shift Supervisors and hourly team members to maintain hospitality standards; performs performance counseling when necessary. Ensures the proper deployment of labor for all shifts to adhere to the café labor budgets.

Directs and coaches the crew during assigned shift to ensure effective communication of standards.

Maintains proper sanitation and cleanliness standards during assigned shift and ensures all team members are properly performing cleaning, sanitation and food safety routines; participates in audits by the Board of Health or other agencies as required.

Assists with maintaining the integrity of the food cost management system; ensures the accuracy of all production entries during assigned shift and participates in conducting the end of the week inventory.

Ensures that the Au Bon Pain guest‑first philosophy is practiced by every team member during assigned shift; responds to guest needs and coaches and directs team to perform their duties to exceed guest expectations.

Assists in working stations during peak periods to ensure guest satisfaction.

Performs all functions of the General Manager in his/her absence.

A BA/BS degree is strongly preferred; a combination of practical experience and/or education will be considered as an alternative.

A minimum of one year experience in a restaurant concept, preferably in a fast casual or full service environment…