General Manager - Washington, DC

Job Description

Job Description

When you step inside of a Tatte Bakery & Café you instantly feel great, comfortable and inspired. It’s a space where you can be yourself. You will be surrounded by the best of everything : authentic, caring and unique Tatte family members, delicious pastries, savory dishes, fresh ingredients and amazing coffee. Every day we strive to provide our guests with an exceptional experience at every opportunity. If you love and care about people and coffee, we want you!

The General Manager (GM) is the face of Tatte within our communities and to our guests. The GM is responsible for all facets of front-of-house café operations dedicated to delivering a warm, authentic and inspiring environment for both guests and team members, to thoughtful leadership, and to overall restaurant performance. Our GMs will work side by side with the FOH team and in partnership with Chef and back-of-house team to drive total four walls quality, standards and performance. GMs are passionate about delivering on the smallest details to uphold and grow the Tatte brand. Successful GMs at Tatte are strong people developers, teachers and performance managers, have high personal standards, hold an owner operator mentality, and are warm and genuine.

Summary of Responsibilities :

• Demonstrates complete ownership of the business including total responsibility for the four walls and P&L ownership
• Models authentic, warm guest experience and is responsible for instilling great service in team
• Ensures the café is optimally staffed with individuals that embody Tatte’s values
• Demonstrates keen people performance management skills with the ability to identify talent and develop managers and hourly team members
• Displays skill in leading and navigating hard conversations
• Continuously upholds Tatte brand and visual standards
• Leads team members through effective and efficient operational execution
• Ensures Food Safety in the café
• Leads all café-level change management activities to ensure effective and accurate communication of new product, service and operational information that is able to be acted upon by the team
• Ensures food, labor and controllable costs stay consistently within guardrails set by the company.
• Oversees all café administrative requirements
• Other duties as assigned

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Position Requirements

Preferred Skills

Our Benefits and Perks

Please note that we hire managers for the greater DC market, and while we strive to place them in cafes that are convenient to them, we do not guarantee placement at specific cafes.

Please note that Tatte is an E-Verify employer.

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