Assistant Manager, restaurant
- Type: Full Time
- Location: Ladysmith, BC
- Employer Type: Business
- Wage ($/hr): 37.00/ hour
- Published on: 2025-06-30
- Application Deadline: 2025-12-30
- Job ID: 975640625
- Job Category: Restaurant – Food Service

Habendum Holdings Ltd. dba Dairy Queen
Job Description
Habendum Holdings Ltd. dba Dairy Queen located at 365 Davis Road, Ladysmith BC V9G 1V1 is hiring an Assistant Manager, Restaurant for a full-time and permanent position.
Job requirements
Languages: English
Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
Experience: Minimum 1 year of experience in the food service industry is required. Supervisory and managerial experience will be preferred.
Job details:
Salary: $37.00 hourly for 30 to 40 hours per week
Tasks:
• Manage entire operation of restaurant during scheduled shifts. Strive for operational levels that meet or exceed the Fan’s expectations in the areas of quality, service and atmosphere, creating value through an excellent experience and a fair price. Accurately complete designated duties such as inventory control, ordering of products, cash control.
• Ensure that shift leads and crew are trained and fully knowledgeable on all PRIDE systems and routines, product recipes, food safety practices and restaurant safety practices.
• Ensure that all PRIDE systems and routines are incorporated into the day-to-day operations of the restaurant, setting each scheduled shift up for success.
• Assist in the execution of the restaurant’s business plan as directed by the GM, taking advice and coaching from the owner, GM, ADQ Business Consultants, field staff or territory operator.
• Understand how to react to issues impacting the restaurant’s profit & loss (P&L) to optimize sales and profit, such as analyzing COGS and taking corrective action if necessary, maintaining inventory, projecting restaurant demand changes throughout the year and adjusting labor accordingly, ensuring that cash control/security procedures are followed, and understanding the P&L implications of workers’ compensation claims.
• Assist the GM with developing and implementing strategies to increase average meal checks and frequency of Fan visits.
• Ensure that Fan service in all areas meets or exceeds company standards.
• Establish standards for the management team and crew to handle customer concerns.
• Ensure that customer complaints are promptly and appropriately addressed to resolve the problem and ensure that each dissatisfied customer becomes a return Fan.
• Understand the importance of speed of service and resolve bottlenecks in work flow.
• Build relationships with return or preferred patrons.
• Accomplish store objectives by assisting the GM with hiring, training, coaching and developing shift leads and crew members to build a highly skilled and productive team.
• Assist the GM with thorough training and new hire orientations; clearly communicate job expectations; monitor each employee and manager’s performance and job contributions, provide ongoing and helpful feedback against expectations.
• Role model and enforce policies and procedures.
• At a minimum, have a basic understanding of how to prepare hourly employee schedules to meet the staffing requirements for each day part and seasonal demands, as determined by the GM. Ideally, should be able to perform this task for review and approval by the GM.
• Maintain a positive working relationship with all restaurant staff to foster and promote a cooperative and pleasant working climate, which will be conducive to maximizing employee morale, productivity and efficiency.
• Assist the GM with ensuring that Food Safety is the top training priority in store operations. Ensure that proper hand washing, product rotation procedures, and temperature logging are visible and active behaviors. Role model and enforce safe food handling practices.
• Maintain a safe, secure, and healthy facility environment by establishing, following, and enforcing sanitation standards and procedures, complying with health and legal regulations and maintaining security systems or routines.
• Understands how to react in the event of an emergency such as a workers compensation accident, a robbery, etc.
• Bring useful ideas to management about how to attract new Fans and increase restaurant sales through marketing promotions and activities.
• May assist the GM in some assigned aspects of local store marketing activities and projects such as public and community relations programs, evaluating local competitors’ store marketing, identifying and tracking changing consumer demands.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as requested by the GM.
How to apply
By email: [email protected]
Only apply to this job if:
• You are a Canadian citizen, a permanent or a temporary resident of Canada.
• You have a valid Canadian work permit.
If you are not authorized to work in Canada, do not apply. The employer will not respond to your application.
Required languages: English
Education level: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
Required skills: Minimum 1 year of experience in the food service industry is required. Supervisory and managerial experience will be preferred
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