Restaurant General Manager

Job Description

Two Hands (twohandshospitality.com / @twohandsrestaurant) is seeking an experienced General Manager for our restaurant in Williamsburg. The restaurant operates during daytime hours only, so this is an opportunity for a hospitality veteran who is seeking work/life balance!

Two Hands Hospitality is a group of community-focused Australian restaurants. Serving breakfast through dinner, we fuel your lifestyle with fresh, delicious food, cocktails, and coffee. We are an innovative, growing hospitality group with restaurants in NYC, Austin, Dallas, Nashville, Franklin, and Denver.

The Two Hands approach to food is that it is good for you, good for the environment, simple, and tastes good. At Two Hands, our goal is for our ingredients to come from local farms to support our communities in Colorado, New York, Texas, and Tennessee.

The successful GM candidate will work alongside Two Hands' corporate team to oversee and manage daily restaurant operations and ensure that service principles, financial parameters, and quality of standards are met. The GM is responsible for management of the FOH and BOH facility, development of FOH and BOH operating systems, and facilitation of a successful working relationship between the FOH and BOH teams.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Operations Create and manage systems to ensure that the restaurant is organized to achieve consistently high operating standards.
• Legal compliance Implement and execute systems to ensure that the business is operating in compliance with all local, state, and federal laws.
• Financial performance Implement and execute expense control and cash management systems required to achieve business budgets.
• Marketing and events Adhere to brand standards and maximize sales through marketing and events.
• Human resources Recruitment, training, development, and managing performance evaluations, employee relations, and benefits.
  
  

Requirements

• Management experience in restaurants similar to our concept or comparably fast-paced, high-volume, and innovative
• Ability to work with and implement direction from corporate team
• Understanding of and ability to manage financial requirements of a restaurant: COGS, portion control, recipe costing, invoice monitoring
• Mature leadership, teamwork, and people management skills
• Valid NY food handlers card
• Punctuality
• Ability and willingness to lead, have fun, and work well with a team
• A love for hospitality
  
  

WE OFFER:

• $10,000 annual bonus available, paid out biannually, dependent upon performance reviews
• Paid vacation time
• Sick leave
• Health insurance available after 3 months
• A 50% employee discount for you and up to four guests on food and drinks when dining outside of work hours
• Positive, collaborative work environment
• Opportunity to grow and assist in the growth of Two Hands nationally
• Interstate management opportunities
• Moving stipend*
  
  

Please include a cover letter, resume, and three contactable professional references from within the past two years or previous two management positions.

• If moving is required to adequately fulfill the position, Two Hands will reimburse the cost of the move up to an agreed-upon amount that will be given within a qualitative timeline and if qualitative points are met.
  
  

Two Hands celebrates unity and diversity and welcomes all religions, all races, all sexualities, all genders and embraces equality. Black, indigenous, and people of color, bilingual people, and women are all encouraged to apply. We seek professionalism, kindness, compassion, and respect of others and the environment.

Company Description

Two Hands Hospitality is a group of community-focused Australian restaurants. Serving breakfast through dinner, we fuel your lifestyle with fresh, delicious food, cocktails, and coffee.

Two Hands Hospitality is a group of community-focused Australian restaurants. Serving breakfast through dinner, we fuel your lifestyle with fresh, delicious food, cocktails, and coffee.