General Manager - Los Angeles, United States - Cookbook

Description

Cookbook Market Highland Park is seeking an experienced General Manager to join our team

The General Manager position at COOKBOOK MARKET is expected to accomplish the following:

• Create relationships with all guests and providing a welcoming environment through guest
• Interview, hire, onboard new employees.
• Ensure new employees are trained effectively.
• Write hourly staff schedules, manage time off and handle coverage as needed.
• Ensure hourly employees follow all break policies in effect at this location.
• Oversee organization and maintenance of cleanliness and ensure shelves and display cases

are stocked in the FOH space.

• Understand and manage labor, OT and break penalties and costs in the market, including

receiving product, entering. invoices, overseeing inventories and daily spending.

• Review labor daily and run payroll for all hourly employees
• Develop a good working knowledge of the financial aspects of the store.
• Communicate all challenges that arise on a daily basis with appropriate supervisors and

problem solve together.

• Ensure a hospitable experience for all guests and maintain high guest satisfaction.
• Able to thoughtfully describe all store items and use this knowledge to provide suggestions

to guests.

• Check out customers at the register, as needed, ensuring that all items have been rung in

properly and all items are packed for the customer.

• Communicate effectively with other store managers and buyers.
• Communicate with wine buyer regarding receiving, tagmaking, sales, and pertinent wine

information.

• Understand high standards for food quality control to uphold Food Safety

Standards.

• Create and maintain Sanitation and Cleaning standards following procedures and using proper

checklists.

• Respect the facility picking up trash, cleaning up after yourself, taking the initiative to

clean, letting appropriate supervisors know if anything is in disrepair.

• Oversee and ensure all opening and closing checklists are done properly.
• Work with a sense of urgency in a fastpaced environment and work in a timely and

efficient manner.

• Maintain positive, teamoriented, respectful mentality.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty

satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with

disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Maintain an up to date California Manager food handlers card certification and

anti-harassment certification.


FLSA Status:
Exempt


Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee

to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be

made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use

hands; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stoop,

kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to sit and climb or

balance. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities

required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust

focus. The noise level in this environment is usually moderate.

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