KFC Assistant Manager

Associate Restaurant Manager

The associate restaurant manager serves as the assistant to the restaurant general manager and provides additional management coverage of operating hours and direct supervision of operations in an individual restaurant. Focal points include driving excellence in customer service, maintaining company standards in product and facility specifications, supervising food handling procedures and operational processes, and exercising basic, shift-to-shift financial control to meet the restaurant profit margin targets. In addition, the associate restaurant manager assumes full responsibility for specific financial controls, crew training assignments, and the screening of prospective employees under the direction of the restaurant general manager. The associate restaurant manager directly performs hands-on operational duties and on an ongoing basis trains employees, responds to customer service needs, and role models appropriate skills and behaviors in the restaurant. The candidate for associate restaurant manager is someone that is considered promotable to restaurant general manager within a year and a half of assuming the associate restaurant manager position. The candidate has demonstrated the leadership skills necessary to become a restaurant general manager with continued training and coaching. Associate restaurant managers that do not show progress towards individual development plan within the first year are subject to demotion or termination. Benefits work schedule 48 hours per week.