General Manager

Benefits

• Dental/Vision Insurance available
• Profit sharing
• Industry leading pay‑time‑off policy

• Very competitive salary
• Bi‑annual salary review
• Exempt status
• Variable Medical insurance plans available
• Dental/Vision Insurance available
• Profit sharing
• Industry leading pay‑time‑off policy

Taco Buddha was founded with a goal of top‑down transparency, humility and high‑performance. To attain high‑performance, TB leaders focus on their people and help them achieve their goals now and into the future. Frequent communication, both structured and ad hoc, is necessary to uphold TB values and grow our people. By doing this, our people serve our customers with grace and genuine hospitality.

The TB General Manager is responsible for people and profit of his/her store unit/location. This position reports to the Taco Buddha Brand Operations Manager and manages (and develops) his/her direct reports. Managing and supporting the location’s FOH and BOH manager’s mission of best‑in‑class hospitality execution is paramount. Through leadership of the location’s FOH and BOH managers, this position ensures policies, procedures, a safe workplace, and a culture of “If it’s not great we don’t serve it” are followed.

This position is passionate about TB food quality, results‑oriented, profit‑focused, and committed to developing others.

• Represents and exemplifies Taco Buddha’s core values and spirit
• Promotes a cooperative effort and team spirit with high morale among employees

• Location ambassador for customer satisfaction; the buck stops with you
• Models best‑in‑class hospitality and coaches the team to deliver the same
• Addresses and alleviates all guest concerns; develops solutions to improve future service
• Approaches all solutions from the customer’s viewpoint as a customer advocate
• Evaluates dine‑in, hybrid ordering and online / to‑go metrics and leverages opportunities to enhance customer satisfaction

• Communicates expectations clearly and follows up consistently with team members
• Delegates to team members to attain results without micromanaging
• Assists with duties of other employees (e.g., host, counter, bar, dining, curbside/to‑go) during peak times and when necessary
• Prioritizes proper training of new team members by following training processes before scheduling them for a regular shift

• Ensures scheduling of team members to meet business needs
• Ensures proper store opening/closing procedures
• Drives compliance with safety, security, and sanitation standards
• Ensures facility cleanliness by following and delegating proper cleaning processes
• Ensures facility and equipment maintenance is performed as needed
• Complies with food safety requirements by state and local authorities and inspires direct reports to oversee that requirement
• Ensures proper inventorying and ordering of non‑alcoholic and alcoholic beverages and maintaining cost of goods targets
• Very proficient with ERP system
• Ensures cash handling accuracy per policy and procedure
• Ensures standardization and consistency in food preparation and presentation
• Performs daily inspections and periodic audits to check safety of equipment and facility
• Ensures accurate and detailed manager logbook entries to pass on compliance of all nuts‑and‑bolts duties
• Leads and creates initiatives to drive sales/profit and store performance
• Collaborates with Marketing Manager to keep Taco Buddha in the forefront of customers’ minds with trendy marketing campaigns
• Supports BOH operations manager with food cost control
• Performs other work‑related duties as assigned

• 5+ years of previous restaurant management experience
• High‑level understanding of training and employee development concepts
• Understanding of and comfort working with digital/computerized equipment and platforms such as a POS, scheduling software and office reporting with Microsoft Office suite software
• Ability to lead and foster…