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 conditionsSure, 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.