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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

Education:

• Required – High school diploma or equivalent

• Preferred – Advanced studies in business, restaurant management, or related fields

Experience:

• At least three years of restaurant management experience (QSR preferred)

• Experience running a restaurant shift without supervision

• Experience recruiting, interviewing, hiring, and managing employees

• Knowledge/Skills

• Knowledge of federal, state, and local labor and employment laws (e.g., wage and hour laws; EEO laws, etc.)

• Knowledge of federal, state, and local health and safety laws and regulations

• Basic computer, math, accounting, and reading skills

• Effective verbal and written communication skills

• Problem-solving, multi-tasking, decision-making, leadership, time-management, and conflict-resolution skills

Work Enviornment:

Continuous standing, bending, reaching, moving, stooping, stretching, and lifting in a restaurant environment; frequent exposure to heat and hot liquid shortening while cooking; frequent exposure to freezer when stocking food items; occasional exposure to extreme temperatures based on variable weather conditions 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.