General Manager

General Manager Position

When you join Flynn Panera, as a General Manager, you join in our belief that food should not only taste good, but also be good for you. As a General Manager, you will be a part of something special where you will have the opportunity to connect with our amazing customers, impact our growing business, and most importantly serve local communities across the country.

Come make a difference with Panera as a General Manager today! This is a great opportunity to hone and develop your management skills in preparation for advancement with Flynn - Panera.

General Managers at our growing cafes supervise up to 60 staff members to ensure a top-quality service experience for our guests.

Responsibilities include providing outstanding leadership to your team, inspiring others, coaching, counseling, creating a profitable environment, and delivering an exceptional customer experience. Managers must maintain high standards of restaurant cleanliness, sanitation, food quality, and facility management.

We are looking for experienced restaurant professionals with a steady, stable employment track record, attention to detail, and outstanding interpersonal skills. This is an excellent opportunity to join a rapidly growing concept.

Essential duties and responsibilities include demonstrating sustainable long-term success, ensuring prompt, friendly service, directing overall activities and performance of employees, creating an Employer of Choice environment, ensuring the immediate response and rectifying of all guest complaints, maintaining adequate inventory levels, ensuring product preparation and presentation meets company standards, overseeing/scheduling employees to meet sales demands, maintaining effective safety and security programs, promoting and leading restaurant organization, cleanliness and sanitation, performing routine maintenance, communicating with other managers, ensuring quality recruitment and referrals of potential management candidates, maintaining a trained staff, ensuring constant development of employees, ensuring accurate staffing levels, controlling costs in the restaurant, ensuring objectives are achieved while operating within all company guidelines, and completing all other assigned duties and responsibilities.

Education and experience requirements include at least 3 years restaurant management experience, excellent communication, interpersonal and customer service skills, ability to work independently and as part of a team, degree or equivalent experience in Hospitality or Hotel/Restaurant Management is preferred, Serve Safe Food Certification a plus, and must have the "Run it Like you Own It Mentality."

Perks for our employees include competitive salary, profit sharing (varies by market), meal discounts, health benefits, 401(k) plan with company match, paid vacation, and development opportunities.

Physical standards include mobility required during the entire shift, up to 10 hours, standing for extended periods of time, ability to safely bend, reach, carry, and stoop, and ability to safely lift up to 50 lbs. repetitively throughout a shift.

Why work for Flynn Panera? Flynn Panera is a growing franchise within Flynn Group that offers stability, opportunity for advancement as well as a great environment, training and benefits. We are committed to helping each employee work and live to their fullest potential within a culture you won't want to quit!