General Manager

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.