Restaurant Leader (General Manager) in London

Company Description: At Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers®, we serve only the most craveable chicken finger meals – it’s our One Love! Known for our great Crew and cool Culture, we follow a Work Hard. Have Fun. philosophy. Raising Cane’s is the fastest-growing chicken concept around and is on track to be a Top 10 Restaurant Brand in the United States. Each Crewmember is important to our rapid growth and enduring success. Now is your chance to join the Team and Raise The Bar!

Your Role at Raising Cane’s: The Restaurant Leader is responsible for strategic direction for their restaurant and must maintain operations standards and drive results through people development, sales and profit growth. This role is tasked with teaching, modeling and upholding Raising Cane’s culture standards for all crewmembers, customers and partners.

The physical work environment includes working in a fast-paced kitchen environment (which requires extended periods of physical exertion, such as walking, standing, lifting and bending) and interacting with customers. It also includes both inside and outside work in varied temperatures, working with and around food products, common allergens, industrial equipment, commercial cleaning products that require the use of personal protective equipment and physical activities necessary to complete the responsibilities of the job.

Your Impact and Responsibilities:

• Ensures overall financial success of the restaurant and is responsible for forecasting and budgeting.
• Ensures overall restaurant compliance to company standards, policies and laws.
• Hires and terminates management-level crewmembers including status change and payroll process.
• Creates crewmember work and training schedules.
• Develops management-level crewmembers including performance management.
• Acts as manager on duty, opens and closes the restaurant, manages cash handling.
• Monitors profit and loss statements, develops and executes strategy in all areas of financial and operational performance.
• Enforces Raising Cane’s policies and standards.
• Uses required tools, forms and logs to support shift execution, document results and take corrective action when needed.
• Deploys crewmembers during a shift and provides exemplary customer service.
• Utilizes reward and recognition program for the crewmembers in the restaurant.
• Authorizes employee functions requiring manager approval (e.g. discounts, timeclock overrides, etc.).
• Ensures cleanliness of the restaurant and ensures the facility is in good working order.
• Achieves and maintains training restaurant status.
• Achieves “meets expectations” or better metrics in all crewmember and operations performance metrics.
• Completes other duties as assigned.

Qualifications Requirements for Success:

• Detail-oriented, organized and able to manage multiple priorities that may be constantly changing.
• Self-driven, flexible, and highly energetic with strong analytical, written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to work effectively and efficiently both independently and collaboratively.
• Able to recognize problems, set goals, create plans and convert plans into action to solve problems.
• Able to measure performance, subjectively and objectively with a high level of emotional intelligence.
• Proficient in a variety of technology systems including Microsoft Office (Excel, Word and Outlook) and ability to learn and adapt to new systems quickly.
• Able to work a variety of shifts including days, evenings and weekends and travel as needed for work-related functions and training.
• Able to manage all public dealings in a professional manner, consistent with Raising Cane’s policies and acts as a brand ambassador inside and outside the restaurant.
• 5+ years of restaurant or retail management experience.
• New restaurant opening and local restaurant marketing experience preferred.
• GCSEs or equivalent required, some tertiary education preferred.
• Possess a valid UK driver’s license.

Additional Information: All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Career Privacy Notice Note: This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship at this time and you must hold valid Right to Work in the UK when applying.