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It’s the dream job you never have to wake up from. At SONIC, you’ll whistle while you work, gaining a sense of accomplishment along the way. You’ll interact with fantastic people, earn great pay, sport a cool uniform.
As a SONIC Drive-In restaurant General Manager, you are indeed a general—leading your troops in a never-ending campaign to give America an infinitely more delicious food service experience. You will be involved in training and supporting drive-in restaurant employees, ensuring that food is delivered in a clean, safe and efficient manner and our customers have an excellent experience.
The Job:
As a SONIC Drive-In General Manager, you are responsible for overseeing and managing the daily operations of the Drive-In to provide quality food in a clean, safe, and efficient manner so that guests will have an enjoyable experience at the Sonic Drive-In. As the highest management position within the Drive-In, you are accountable for the Drive-In and its operations.
Responsibilities include:
- Hiring, training, managing, supervising, directing, and developing Great People ready to serve a SuperSONIC experience to every guest.
- Demonstrating a Fair, Firm, Fun leadership approach, and leading by example.
- Managing a profit and loss statement to exceed expectations every week, month, and year.
- Swiftly resolving employee concerns with a thoughtful approach.
- Celebrating team successes and coaching for better performance.
- Setting expectations and providing clear and continuous feedback.
- Creating an upbeat positive atmosphere during the shift that makes work fun.
- Helping employees understand the big picture and their role by sharing the “why” behind tasks.
- Understanding how to use metrics to evaluate Drive-In performance and make necessary improvements.
- Getting out in the community, making a difference, and growing sales for your Drive-In and the brand.
- Maintaining and enforcing SONIC safety and sanitation standards.
- Relentlessly complying with all federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
What You’ll Need:
- Prior management experience; restaurant or retail industry highly preferred (subject to franchise discretion).
- High standards for self and the team.
- Positive attitude, especially during rushes or stressful situations.
- Resiliency – trying different approaches to solve a problem; working to get better every day.
- Eagerness to learn and grow professionally and personally.
- Ability to prioritize and complete tasks accordingly.
- Excellent leadership and communication skills.
- Associate’s degree in Business or related field preferred (subject to franchise discretion).
- Willingness to work irregular hours, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
Sure, classic cars and vintage threads may be things of the past, but the Sonic Drive-In experience will always be groovy, right on, awesome, wicked, fab, the bee’s knees, cruisin’ . . . you get the picture! It’s downright sensational!!
All that’s missing is you, so APPLY TODAY!
SONIC and its independent franchise owners are Equal Opportunity Employers.
