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Restaurant Assistant Manager - In-Person Hiring Event (Pick Your Interview Time!) at Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores

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Job Description

Benefits: Paid Time Off Flexible Scheduling 401(k) - 100% match up to 5% Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance after 30-days Competitive Pay Career Development Quarterly Bonus Program Hiring Immediately

Welcome to Love's!

Restaurant Assistant Managers play a key role in ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of our restaurant. You will assist in leading staff, managing processes, and executing strategies to enhance sales and customer satisfaction. With opportunity as our greatest benefit and a dynamic team environment, this role is ideal for individuals passionate about the restaurant industry and ready to make a difference.

Job Functions:



  • Ensure a safe, clean, and well-maintained facility through facilities and equipment maintenance along with adherence to proper food safety procedures.
  • Drive sales of products and services through efficient ordering, stocking, inventory management, and food preparation.
  • Assist the Restaurant Manager with proper task execution and completion, schedule and cash integrity, and complete daily, weekly, and monthly reporting.
  • Work with the team to prepare and package customer orders in a timely manner to maximize customer service expectations and results.
  • Understand financial reporting to include analyzing profit and loss statements and affecting change to capture and capitalize on opportunities.
  • Collaborate with Restaurant Manager in the efforts of talent acquisition.

Experience:



  • Ability to work various shift times to include days, afternoons, evenings, nights, occasional overnights, weekends, and holidays.
  • 1+ years restaurant management experience.
  • 1+ years managing operations with an annual sales volume of $1+million.
  • 1+ years affecting and deciphering budgets and P&L statements.
  • 1+ years supervising and training 5-10+ employees.
  • Intermediate level computer skills including Microsoft Office, Outlook, Word, and Excel.
  • A valid driver's license and ability to successfully complete a pre-employment background check and drug screening.

Skills and Demands:



  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a customer satisfaction focus.
  • Exceptional customer service, positive rapport building, expert salesmanship, and ensuring satisfaction by managing operations and employee-vehicle deployment.
  • Strong organizational and multitasking abilities with attention to detail.
  • Effective teamwork skills.
  • Physical Demands: Regular talking and hearing. Active involvement requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing. Frequent lifting/moving of items over 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required.

Our Culture:

Come see why Love's Travel Stops and Country Stores was recognized by Indeed as the winner of the Better Work Award in 2023.

Love's Travel Stops and Country Stores is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Veterans encouraged to apply.

Love's has been fueling customers' journeys since 1964. Innovation and perseverance continue to lead the way for the family-owned and -operated business headquartered in Oklahoma City with more than 40,000 team members in North America and Europe. The company's core business is travel stops and convenience stores with more than 630 locations in 42 states. Love's continues its commitment to offer products and services that provide value for professional drivers, fleets, four-wheel customers, RVers, alternative fuel and wholesale fuel customers. Giving back to communities Love's serves and maintaining an inclusive and diverse workplace are hallmarks of the company's award-winning culture.

The Love's Family of Companies includes:



  • Gemini Motor Transport, one of the industry's safest trucking fleets.
  • Speedco and Love's Truck Care, the largest oil change and preventive maintenance and total truck care network.
  • Musket, a rapidly growing, Houston-based commodities supplier and trader.
  • Trillium, a Houston-based alternative fuels expert.
  • TVC Pro-driver, a commercial driver's license (CDL) protection subscription service.

Typical entry-level pay: $53k for Food Service Managers nationally

National salary averages
Expected entry-level
$53k
Entry
Mid
Senior
Expected
$42k Market range (10th-90th percentile) $105k

Mid-level roles pay ~23% more—room to grow.

Strong candidate leverage

Strong hiring activity gives you options. Use competing offers strategically.

Hiring leverage
Lean candidate
Wage leverage
Balanced
Mobility
High mobility
Durability
Mostly durable

Who this leverage applies to

Stronger for: Senior candidates with options, Remote-capable workers

Where to negotiate

Base salary
Sign-on bonus
Title / level
Remote flexibility
Scope & responsibility
Start date / PTO

Likely Possible Unlikely

Watch out for

30% self-employed: Traditional full-time roles may be scarcer.

Use competing offers and timing to your advantage.

Does this path compound?

Job Growth →
High churn
Growth, flat pay
🚀 Compound
Growth + pay upside
⚠️ Plateau
Limited growth
Specialize
Experts earn more
Pay Upside →
High turnover market

Many openings, but pay doesn't scale as much with experience.

+6%
10yr growth
30% work independently—freelance or consulting is viable.
Typical: High school diploma or equivalent

Openings come from turnover, not new growth. Differentiate to advance.

Labor data: BLS 2024