Restaurant General Manager - Bury St Edmunds

Taco Bell was born and raised in California and has been around since 1962. We went from selling everyone’s favourite Crunchy Tacos on the West Coast to a global brand with 8,200+ restaurants, 350 franchise organizations, that serve 42+ million fans each week around the globe. In our region (ONEUROPE), we are in the UK, Spain, Finland, The Netherlands, Romania, Cyprus, Greece, Croatia, Serbia and Sweden.

We’re not only the largest Mexican-inspired quick service brand (QSR) in the world, we’re also part of the biggest restaurant group in the world: Yum! Brands. Much of our fan love and authentic connection with our communities are rooted in being rebels with a cause. From ensuring we use high quality, sustainable ingredients to elevating restaurant technology in ways that hasn’t been done before… we will continue to be inclusive, bold, challenge the status quo and push industry boundaries.

We’re a company that celebrates and advocates for different, has bold self-expression, strives for a better future, and brings the fun while we’re at it. We fuel our culture with real people who bring unique experiences. We inspire and enable our teams and the world to Live Más.

About the Job:

Reporting to the Area Coach, the Restaurant General Manager manages a Taco Bell restaurant within the policies and guidelines of the company to ensure customer satisfaction and profit maximization. The RGM will perform hands-on work to train employees, respond to customer service needs, and model appropriate behaviours in the restaurant. This role provides overall leadership through building a culture of recognition while motivating the team with the goal of operational excellence.

The Day-to-Day:

• Build People Capability: Drives culture, problem solves, resolves conflicts, communicates and motivates to drive results through others.
• Recruit and equip high quality operators to deliver great customer experiences.
• Build a healthy and robust bench of developed and capable Managers and Team Members.
• Leads performance management process for all employees in their restaurant.
• Lead by example – be a culture champion and live by Taco Bell HUNGRY principles: Hungry, Understanding, Never Follow, Grateful, Relentless, and Youthful.
• Leverage culture and people capability to fuel brand performance.
• Provides leadership and coaching, developing Managers and Team Members.
• Deliver a Consistent Customer Experience.
• Ensure complete and timely execution of corporate & local marketing programs.
• Ensure a safe working and customer experience environment by facilitating safe work behaviours of the team.
• Control day-to-day operations by scheduling labour and ordering food and supplies, to successfully fulfil the needs of a $500k - $2.0m restaurant with average daily transactions of 500-800.
• Ensure local health and safety codes, and company safety and security policies are met.
• Drives customer-focused culture by serving as a role model in resolving serious customer issues and training managers to meet or exceed customer service standards.
• Utilizes insights from customer programs to help elevate the customer’s experience and meet Taco Bell’s customer satisfaction targets.
• Tracks, analyses and identifies root causes of customer complaints and leads management team to implement systematic solutions, performance standards and to provide an objective basis for performance feedback.
• Builds SMART action plans to resolve issues in their restaurant.
• Monitors restaurant Speed with Service (SWS) performance and provides coaching to unit management teams to meet performance targets.

Grow the Brand, Sales and Profits:

• Control Profit & Loss by following cash control/security procedures, maintaining inventory, managing labour, reviewing financial reports, and taking appropriate actions.
• Ensure maintenance of equipment, facility, and grounds through the use of a Preventative Maintenance Plan based on Company Standards.
• Reviews and prioritizes store capital expenditure requests and establishes common vendor relationships where scale can be leveraged.
• Ensures that facilities and equipment are maintained to Taco Bell standards; coordinates facility upgrades or equipment replacement.
• Analyses sales, labour, inventory and controllables on a continual basis and coaches on corrective action to meet or achieve margin and sales growth targets.
• Works with management team to develop and deliver unit-specific Annual Operating Plans.

Is This You?

• High School minimum, University Degree Preferred but not critical to the role.
• 2-4 years of operational management experience in the Quick Service Restaurant industry or retail environment including Profit & Loss responsibility.
• Basic business math and accounting skills to manage Profit & Loss in their restaurant and strong analytical/decision-making skills.
• Strong interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.
• Good oral/written communication skills and strong interpersonal and conflict resolution skills with exceptional team building capability.
• Strong analytical/decision-making skills.
• Basic personal computer literacy.
• Is passionate about providing excellence in execution of quality food, service, cleanliness and speed standards.
• Is a Dynamic, energetic and positive leader, a self-starter, proactively driven to get things done and does the right thing for the business.
• Provides leadership and coaching for each employee in their restaurant.
• Demonstrated track record of workplace achievement in the selection, coaching and development of managerial employees.
• Proven ability to drive customer satisfaction, financial performance and employee satisfaction.

Why Taco Bell?

We truly believe that where you work matters, and we know a thing or two about what makes employees happy. Join us on our mission of feeding people’s lives with más!

Work-Hard, Play-Hard: At Taco Bell, we're committed to more than just providing employment opportunities – we're dedicated to cultivating enriching careers filled with exceptional perks and rewards. Join our team and embark on a journey of personal and professional development tailored to your unique aspirations.

Benefits and Incentives:

• Meal Benefits: Receive a complimentary meal during each shift.
• Employee Assistance Platform: Utilize our Employee Assistance Platform for support on health, social, family, and wealth-related matters.

Taco Bell is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to equity, inclusion, and belonging for all dimensions of diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other protected characteristic.

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