Restaurant Manager

Dunkin' Restaurant Manager – Lead with Flavor!

Location: Groton, CT - Gales Ferry, CT - Uncasville, CT

Full-Time | Competitive Pay

At Dunkin', we're all about great beverages, delicious food, and creating moments that matter. We're looking for a passionate, driven, and energetic leader to join our team as a Restaurant Manager. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, love leading a team, and enjoy making people smile, this is the role for you!

Perks & Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Discounted tuition for you and your family through SNHU
• Opportunities for advancement in a growing, loved brand

What You'll Do:

As a Dunkin' Restaurant Manager, you'll be the heartbeat of the store, responsible for:

• Leading and motivating a high-performing team to deliver exceptional guest experiences
• Managing daily operations including inventory, scheduling, and cash handling
• Ensuring compliance with food safety, sanitation, and brand standards
• Driving sales and profitability through effective cost control and marketing initiatives
• Recruiting, training, and developing team members for growth and success
• Creating a positive, inclusive, and fun work environment

What We're Looking For:

• 1–3 years of restaurant or retail management experience (QSR experience a plus!)
• Strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills
• A hands-on, can-do attitude with a passion for customer service
• Ability to work flexible hours, including weekends and holidays
• Fluent in English
• Basic computer skills
• At least 18 years of age (where applicable)
• Basic writing skills
• High School diploma, or equivalent
• Proficient in math and financial management

Responsibilities:

Team Environment:

• Communicate job expectations to employees
• Hold team members accountable for their behavior and performance, addressing concerns promptly
• Support the development of team members

Operational Excellence:

• Create and maintain a guest first culture in the restaurant
• Ensure all shifts are appropriately staffed to achieve guest service goals
• Maintain safe, secure, and healthy environment by following and enforcing safety, food safety, and sanitation guidelines; comply with all applicable laws
• Ensure Brand standards, recipes and systems are executed
• Help prepare and complete action plans; implement production, productivity, quality and guest service standards
• Review guest feedback and restaurant assessment results and implement action plans to drive system improvements

Profitability:

• Control costs to help maximize profitability
• Execute all in-restaurant marketing promotions in a timely manner
• Execute new product roll-outs including team training, marketing and sampling
• Drive sales goals and track results

Competencies:

Great Focus:

• Understands and exceeds guest expectations, needs and requirements

• Displays a sense of urgency with guests

• Seeks ways to improve guest satisfaction; asks questions, commits to follow-through

• Resolves guest concerns by following Brand recommended guest recovery process

Passion for:

• Sets and maintains high standards for self and others, acts as a role model

• Consistently meets or exceeds goals

• Contributes to the overall team performance; understands how his/her role relates to others

• Sets, prioritizes and maintains focus on important activities

• Reads and interprets reports to establish goals and deliver results

• Seeks ideas and best practices from other individuals, teams, and networks and applies them

Problem Solving and Decision Making:

• Identifies and resolves issues and problems

• Uses information at hand to make decisions and solve problems; includes others when necessary

• Identifies root cause of a problem and implements a solution to prevent from recurring

• Empowers others to make decisions and resolve issues

Interpersonal Relationships & Influence:

• Develops and maintains relationships with team members

• Operates with integrity; demonstrates honesty, treats others with respect, keeps commitments

• Encourages collaboration and teamwork

• Leads others; negotiates and takes effective action

Building Effective Teams:

• Identifies and communicates team goals

• Monitors progress, measures results and holds others

• Creates strong morale and engagement within the team

• Accepts responsibilities for personal and team commitments

• Recognizes and rewards employee's strengths, accomplishments and development

• Listens to others, seeks mutual understanding and welcomes sharing of information, ideas and resources

Conflict Management:

• Seeks to understand conflict through active listening

• Recognizes conflicts as an opportunity to learn and improve

• Resolves situations using facts involved, ensuring consistency with policies and procedures

• Escalates issues as appropriate

Developing Direct Reports and Others:

• Works collaboratively with employees to create individual development plans to strengthen employee's knowledge and skills

• Regularly discusses progress towards goals, reviews performance and adjusts development plans accordingly

• Provides challenging assignments for the purpose of developing others

• Uses coaching and feedback opportunities to improve performance

• Identifies training needs and supports resources for development opportunities

Business and Financial Acumen:

• Understands guest and competition; translates and applies own expertise to address business opportunities

• Approaches situations with an innovative mind and looks beyond the obvious to deliver solutions and implement change

• Has a working knowledge of profit and loss and other key financial measurements in order to identify business trends, make adjustments accordingly and set goals

• Understands, analyzes and communicates the key performance/profit levers and manages to these measures

Join Us:

Be part of a brand that fuels the world with coffee and positivity. Apply today and bring your leadership to the next level with Dunkin'!