Floating General Manager role with active catering business development across Olive U’s 6 locations in the Boca Raton area.

Lead, coach, and develop the restaurant management team and employees.
Maintain strong standards for food quality, hospitality, cleanliness, and restaurant operations.
Manage labor, food costs, inventory, waste, and other controllable expenses.
Recruit, train, schedule, and retain high-performing employees.
Drive restaurant sales and profitability.
Ensure proper staffing levels for the restaurants.
Ensure compliance with food-safety requirements and company standards.
Handle guest concerns professionally.
Build a positive, accountable, high-performance restaurant culture.
Develop Olive U’s catering business throughout the local community.
Visit local businesses, offices, medical facilities, schools, gyms, residential communities, and organizations to introduce Olive U Catering.
Build relationships with office managers, administrators, event planners, and other decision-makers.
Generate new catering accounts and follow up with previous catering customers.
Grow repeat catering business.
Attend local networking and community events.
Coordinate food sampling and promotional opportunities.
Promote Olive U for corporate lunches, meetings, parties, weddings, and special events.
Maintain and follow up with a pipeline of catering prospects.
Track catering sales and new customer development.

Experienced restaurant General Manager or strong Assistant General Manager.
Highly outgoing and comfortable meeting new people.
Sales-oriented with motivation to grow business.
Proven leadership with the ability to develop and hold a team accountable.
Professional and confident representing Olive U in the community.
Organized and strong at following up with customers and prospects.
Self-motivated and results-driven.
Comfortable walking into businesses and introducing Olive U.
Experience with restaurant labor, food costs, inventory, and operations.
Ability to balance restaurant operations with outside business development.
Reliable transportation and a valid driver’s license with a clean driving record.

Base salary: $70,000 annually
Plus: performance bonus and catering sales commission
Starting salary package: $70,000 Base Salary + Performance Bonus + Catering Sales Commission

Approximately two months of General Manager training within an Olive U restaurant.
Training covers: Olive U food and preparation standards, guest-service expectations, restaurant systems and procedures, labor and cost controls, team-management expectations, catering operations, and brand standards.
After successful completion, the manager takes full responsibility for restaurant operations and catering business development.

Performance: restaurant performance, sales growth, profitability, labor management, food cost, operational standards, guest satisfaction, cleanliness, and employee development.
Catering Growth: catering revenue, new catering accounts, repeat customers, community relationships, prospecting activity, and new business development.
Leadership: building a strong management team, developing employees, maintaining accountability, and creating a positive Olive U culture.

Work location: In person

General Manager - Restaurant & Catering Business Development Manager

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