Start the day by leading a team and creating a welcoming experience for our guests. As a Daytime Opening Shift Leader at Chick-fil-A Wallingford, you’ll build leadership skills, take ownership of restaurant operations, and help your teammates succeed. Strong performance can open the door to long-term management and professional growth opportunities.
Role Summary: You’ll arrive at 5:30 a.m. to lead opening preparations and ensure the restaurant is ready to welcome breakfast guests at 6:30 a.m. Your responsibilities include coordinating team members, preparing stations, overseeing cash and inventory procedures, and supporting accurate, efficient service throughout your shift. We’re looking for a dependable, proactive leader who communicates clearly, stays organized, and leads by example. Restaurant opening and shift leadership experience are preferred, and we’re willing to train candidates who demonstrate strong leadership potential and a willingness to learn.
Compensation:
Commensurate with experience, education, and certifications
Competitive Benefits
Our benefits package includes both full-time and part-time insurance (medical, vision, dental, life), bonus opportunities, a robust 401K / profit-sharing program, a college scholarship program (over $375,000 awarded since 2017), and a generous meal discount program, and more.
Must-Have Characteristics:
- Punctual: able arrive by 5:30 am when opening
- Remarkable interpersonal skills
- A talent for multi-tasking & problem-solving
- An eye for detail
- Heightened sense of urgency
- Uncompromising Integrity
- Driven to learn and grow
- Ability to work independently
More Opportunity than You Could Imagine
This role can begin your journey to opportunities like owning a franchised business, a corporate career, traveling the country (even world) to train teams OR it can be simply the way to help pay your way through college as you pursue other dreams. Either way, this role is designed to accelerate your professional – and personal – development.
Flexible Hours
This role is ideally a full-time role (40hrs/week); however, we will consider part-time applicants based on availability and capacity to learn. to We understand that you have commitments to your family, friends, school, community, or sports teams. If you are a proven performer, we will gladly trade your talent for the flexibility you need.
Closed Sundays
All Chick-fil-A restaurants are closed on Sunday, so you can have the day off to rest and spend time with family & friends.
Experience Preferred
Although the ideal candidate will have experience opening (and leading shifts) in a restaurant’s front of house operation, we are willing to train candidates who demonstrate a capacity to master the processes and systems that make us successful.
Work schedule
- 8 hour shift
- 10 hour shift
- Weekend availability
- Day shift
- Night shift
- Monday to Friday
- 12 hour shift
Supplemental pay
- Supplemental income
- Bonus pay
- Other
Benefits
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Referral program
- Employee discount
- Paid training
- Profit sharing