General Manager - South Bay Area

About Us:

Local Kitchens helps the best local restaurants expand to new cities with our network of micro food halls. We are shaping the path of a $900bn restaurant industry to go digital while bringing high-quality food options to families in every neighborhood. Today, we are operating in the SF Bay Area, Sacramento, and Orange County regions, and rapidly expanding throughout California in 2023. 

Our team was on the founding team at DoorDash and we are well-capitalized by tier 1 venture capital investors and angels like David Novak (CEO/Founder of Yum Brands), Tony Xu (CEO of DoorDash), and Jack Dorsey (CEO of Square/Twitter). Read more about us in QSR Magazine, QSR Web, and in the SF Business Times.  

We are looking for an entrepreneur to run one of our Bay Area stores. We are offering meaningful equity ownership in the company and a competitive salary. This is an opportunity to run your own business with the potential to build personal wealth.  

You will inspire your team to execute perfect food for our guests across many menus. You will maintain a clean, organized, well-stocked business with properly maintained equipment. You will promote high standards, respect, fun, exceptional customer service, and help our team grow within the company. You’ll be responsible for administrative work like scheduling and inventory as well as working side by side with your team during peak hours to guarantee success.

Responsibilities:

• Highest quality standard in the room - Protect food quality by being detail-oriented and following kitchen procedures. Monitor food waste and inventory levels, and resolve guest issues by exceeding expectations. Ensure product is in-house to maintain full menu availability.

• Team development - Develop and retain a high-performing team. Train and develop team members to become Supervisors and Managers. Communicate effectively with your team to achieve throughput and take care of our guests. Lead from the front - master every job in the room.

• Admin - Schedule with operational and financial vision. Own inventory ordering / manage waste. Ensure opening and closing tasks are completed. Manage employee lifecycle.

Requirements:

• Entrepreneurial, works with autonomy

• Strong communicator

• Proven team builder

• Strong teacher/trainer

• Kitchen experience - competent line cook

• Guest First - always do what’s best for the guest

• Respect - yourself, your teammates, your customers

• Data Driven - make decisions based on data

• Team Wins - do what’s best for the team because the team can accomplish more than the individual

• Ownership - take pride in everything you do

• Relentless - work ethic

• On Time - to work, in preparing food for our customers, in everything you do

• Must have a reliable vehicle to pick up and transport product between locations when necessary

Nice to Have:

• Experience with inventory systems

• Bilingual, English and Spanish

• Comfortable with technology

Benefits:

• Meaningful equity in a fast-growing company

• Competitive monthly bonus potential

• Healthcare, dental, and vision insurance

• Massive, rapid growth potential

• Interact directly with the founders

Culture:

• Guest love: Local Kitchens exists to make guests happy. We start with “what would the guest want?” and work backwards. Support Center works to serve our kitchen teams, so that they can take care of our guests.

• First principles thinking: We keep asking “why” like a 4-year-old and never accept the status quo. We are truth seekers. We reason from fundamental truths in order to invent new ways to delight guests.

• Operate at the lowest level of detail: We solve problems at the lowest level of detail e.g. by going to the kitchen. We measure everything and win arguments with data. We don’t use sloppy thinking.

• Relentless: We outwork everyone, it’s our most controllable competitive advan