Restaurant Manager
Sweetgreen
$51,000 - $60,000 / year
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Description
A Healthier Future Starts With You
As an Assistant Coach (Assistant General Manager), you support your store as a leader, strategist, and mentor. You'll inspire your team, drive operational excellence, and deliver exceptional guest experiences using data-driven insights to build healthier communities through real food.
What You’ll Do
As an Assistant Coach (Assistant General Manager), you're a hands-on leader who inspires your team while driving operational excellence. You'll mentor team members to become future leaders, partner with the Head Coach to set goals and track performance, and use data-driven insights to navigate challenges and ensure exceptional guest experiences that build healthier communities through real food. These responsibilities highlight some of the key functions an Assistant Coach performs. Additional supervisory tasks may be assigned as necessary.
Essential Functions
- People + Leading the Team: Partners with the Head Coach on hiring, onboarding, and training while fostering a culture of trust and recognition. Anticipates operational needs and adjusts deployment to support smooth operations. Provides hands-on coaching, steps in during peak times or staffing gaps, and ensures clear communication for consistent execution.
- Food Safety + Journey: Upholds high standards for food safety, cleanliness, and equipment maintenance by inspecting food quality, checking temperatures, and ensuring compliance. Partners with the Head Coach to promptly resolve facility, supply, and quality issues while ensuring team member safety and strong audit performance.
- Customer Experience: Ensures a clean, hospitable, and brand-aligned guest journey by upholding SWEET standards, acting on guest experience metrics, and making timely business decisions to deliver fast, accurate, and memorable in-store and digital experiences.
- Financial + Business Acumen: Supports operational excellence by managing controllable costs, executing schedules, and partnering with the Head Coach to drive sales and implement short- and long-term strategies using insights from the Ops Dashboard.
- Systems, Process + Tech: Ensures effective team deployment and expert use of systems by supporting daily operations, troubleshooting issues, and prioritizing tasks to drive smooth and efficient execution.
- Execute Assistant Coach Career Path Duties: Perform all essential functions outlined in the Shift Leader role, including those from the Kitchen Lead and Team Member roles
What Makes You Stand Out
- Experience in fast casual restaurant chains
- Hands-on experience with local, organic, and sustainable products
- Familiarity with tech tools and systems used in operations and scheduling
- Proven leadership experience with strong problem-solving skills and ability to make confident decisions under pressure
- Excellent communicator who fosters positive team culture, mentors employees, and delivers exceptional guest experiences
- Highly organized, reliable multitasker with experience in scheduling, coaching, and performance oversight
Minimum Requirements
- Meet all physical requirements for all roles within the career path, including the Assistant Coach, Shift Leader, Kitchen Lead, and Team Member.
- 2+ years in a restaurant management/supervisory role
- Experience managing and developing 6+ team members per shift
- Food Handler or ServSafe certification
- Must be available to work a minimum of 30 hours per week
- Must be 18 years of age or older
- Must be authorized to work in the United States
What Perks You’ll Get
- Competitive base salary + 15% bonus potential
- Medical, dental + vision insurance plans to suit your and your family’s needs
- Paid Vacation + Wellness time
- 401(k) program
- Paid family leave; we fully support new parents
- Complimentary greens
- Free sweetgreen swag
- An opportunity to make a real impact on the people around you, both by growing them and connecting them to real food
- A collaborative team of people who live our core values and have your back
- A clear career path with opportunities for development, both personally and professionally
Who We Are
Sweetgreen is a national restaurant brand dedicated to building healthier communities by connecting people to real food. Since 2007, Sweetgreen has reimagined fast food to be fresh, flavorful, and rooted in relationships with farmers and communities. As we grow, we are committed to developing our people in our restaurants and at our support center, so that everyone can be part of the movement. When you join Sweetgreen, you not only invest in your own future but help create spaces where food, people, and purpose come together
Benefits
- health insurance
- vision insurance
- 401(k)
About this role
Supporting Sweetgreen's Fayetteville location as an Assistant Coach means stepping into a hands-on leadership role where you'll manage daily operations, mentor your team, and drive the brand's mission around real food and healthier communities. You'll work closely with the Head Coach on hiring, training, and performance tracking while ensuring food safety standards, maintaining guest experience excellence, and using operational data to make informed decisions. This is a full-time position requiring at least 30 hours weekly, with a salary range of $51,000 to $60,000 plus a 15% bonus potential.
The role suits someone with at least two years of restaurant management experience who has successfully led teams of six or more people. You'll need hands-on familiarity with fast casual operations, comfort with tech systems and scheduling tools, and current Food Handler or ServSafe certification. Beyond credentials, Sweetgreen is looking for a communicator and problem-solver who can stay composed under pressure, foster positive team culture, and execute both strategic initiatives and shift-level tasks when needed.
Beyond base compensation, you'll receive medical, dental, and vision insurance, paid vacation and wellness time, a 401(k) program, paid family leave, and complimentary meals. The company emphasizes career development and a collaborative culture aligned with its core values.
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Typical pay for this role
$40,000
Typical range: $20,000 to $60,000
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