Job Summary Required Qualifications and Skills
We are seeking an experienced Store Manager for a direct hire opportunity in Woodland Hills, CA. This role is ideal for a hands-on restaurant leader with a strong background in fast food, quick service restaurant operations, team leadership, and customer service excellence.
The Store Manager will oversee daily restaurant operations, lead and develop team members, manage labor and inventory controls, and ensure a consistent guest experience. This position offers the opportunity to join a fast-paced, team-oriented food service environment where strong leadership, accountability, and operational discipline are valued.
This is a great opportunity for a motivated restaurant management professional who enjoys coaching teams, solving problems, improving store performance, and creating a positive workplace culture. The right candidate will thrive in an environment with supportive leadership, clear operating standards, and opportunities to make a direct impact on customer satisfaction and business results.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead day-to-day restaurant operations, including staffing, scheduling, training, performance coaching, and employee development.
- Manage labor, food, beverage, supply, and inventory costs while supporting sales growth and guest satisfaction.
- Oversee cash handling, register audits, bank deposits, safe audits, revenue reconciliation, and related store reporting.
- Maintain compliance with company policies, food safety standards, labor laws, OSHA requirements, and local, state, and federal regulations.
- Supervise operational tasks such as food ordering, inventory audits, expired food disposal, supply ordering, equipment upkeep, and restaurant cleanliness.
- Resolve customer concerns, support high service standards, and ensure the restaurant meets internal visitation and guest experience expectations.
Compensation and Benefits
- Pay rate: $27.00 to $30.00 per hour, depending on experience.
- Job type: Direct hire.
- Location: Woodland Hills, CA.
- Manage full restaurant operations, including team leadership, customer service, financial controls, and compliance.
- Hire, train, coach, schedule, and direct the work of store employees, including two or more team members.
- Oversee daily closing paperwork, inventory management, vendor orders, POS system updates, and operational reporting.
- Lead store performance initiatives focused on profitability, labor control, safety, food quality, and guest satisfaction.
- 3 to 5 years of restaurant management, store management, or quick service restaurant leadership experience.
- Experience managing staff, conducting training, addressing performance issues, and maintaining adequate staffing levels.
- Strong understanding of labor cost control, scheduling, timekeeping, meal and rest break compliance, and operational efficiency.
- Knowledge of cash management, inventory procedures, food safety practices, and restaurant reporting processes.
- Ability to communicate in English through speaking, reading, and writing.
- Strong communication, negotiation, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Professional attitude with a high standard for teamwork, attendance, appearance, and quality of work.
- Ability to reach, lift, bend, kneel, stoop, climb, push, and pull items weighing 50 pounds or less.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bilingual Spanish skills are a plus.
- Experience with an established fast food chain is preferred.
- Drive-thru restaurant experience is a plus.
- Completion of restaurant Unit Manager training or ability to successfully complete required training and testing.
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