What is required?
- Relevant experience in Hospitality and Management
- SVH certified
- Customer oriented
- Lead by example
- Eye for detail
- Ability to lead and train a team
- Understanding the financial aspect of the business
- Flexibility regarding working hours
What will you get?
- €2.800 to €3.200,- gross p/m
- 8% holiday allowance
- Quarterly Bonus up to €6000 p/y
- 40 hour workweek
- 25 vacationdays
- Training to improve your skills
- Pension
- Free meal per shift
- Paid Breaks
What will you do?
- 15% Placing orders
- 20% Track finances shop
- 30% Cooking, cleaning and helping customers
- 20% Personnel Planning, training and hiring
- 15% Solving problems with customers and suppliers
This vacancy has been created based on interviews with employees to help you get a realistic preview of the job.
Vacancy
As General Manager you are responsible for the running of a Salsa Shop restaurant. It is a multifunctional role. You make sure orders are placed, you maintain contact with suppliers, and you take care of the finances. You also supervise the cleaning and help with this if necessary. In addition, you draw up the schedules and supervise the team during work. If required, you give a hand in the kitchen or you help serving the customers. Furthermore, you make sure any problems with customers or suppliers are dealt with as soon as possible.
You help recruit and train new Team Members and you help them with their development within Salsa Shop. There is also room to increase revenue by looking for partnerships or something like that.
You start with a General Manager training course that takes approximately four months. After that, you are placed in charge of your own shop. You can decide yourself whether you work the day, afternoon or evening shift and you choose which five days you work. You do make sure you work in different sorts of shifts.
You have to like working with food and you shouldn't mind having to do the dirty work sometimes.
Working week
Alexander Jerejian
I have an enjoyable day if it is busy in the shop, the customers are happy and my team is enjoying their work.
A day is less enjoyable if someone is ill and I have to take over their shift.
- 09:00
- 10:00
- 11:00
- 12:00
- 13:00
- 14:00
- 15:00
- 16:00
- 17:00
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- Starting up the shop
- Administration
- Help out in the shop
- Place orders
- Help out in the shop
- Make the schedule while you eat something
- Prepare the shop for the next shift
- Briefing with team
- Shift handover
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- Starting up the shop
- Administration
- Help out in the shop
- Place orders
- Help out in the shop
- Lunch break
- Help out in the shop
- Prepare the shop for the next shift
- Briefing with team
- Shift handover
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- Starting up the shop
- Administration
- Take over shift
- Lunch break
- Cleaning
- Prepare the shop for the next shift
- Inventory
- Briefing with team
- Shift handover
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- Starting up the shop
- Administration
- Help out in the shop
- Place orders
- Help out in the shop
- Lunch break
- Help out in the shop
- Prepare the shop for the next shift
- Briefing with team
- Shift handover
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- Starting up the shop
- Administration
- Help out in the shop
- Place orders
- Lunch break
- Help out in the shop
- Prepare the shop for the next shift
- Briefing with team
- Shift handover
Firsthand experience
Growth
As General Manager you are trained to run the shop as your own business. You have the freedom to make independent decisions. You are supported and guided in this by a regional manager (always a former General Manager) who acts as a sparring partner and coach.
Working at Salsa Shop
Salsa Shop was founded in 2014 and now has 16 locations. This makes it the largest fresh Mexican food chain on the European mainland. It employs 300 people who are spread over various locations in The Netherlands.
- HQ in Amsterdam
- Active in the Netherlands
- 57% / 43%
- Average age 23
- 300 employees in NL