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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.