Opening Shift Leader

The Daytime Opening Shift Leader is an excellent opportunity to demonstrate your leadership abilities. This role, if successfully performed, can lead to long-term management opportunities within and beyond Wallingford’s busiest restaurant.

Responsibilities: 

Opening the restaurant by 6:30 am for breakfast, preparing beverage stations, cash management, inventory management, delivering food to guests, cleaning & maintaining the front of house and dining room, preparing desserts, bagging orders, taking drive-thru orders on headset and at front counter, executing drive-thru window activities, bagging orders, preparing catering orders, restocking inventory, answering the phone, and addressing guest needs as they arise.

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. 

Working at a Chick-fil-A® restaurant is more than a job – it’s an opportunity for teamwork and leadership development in a positive, people-focused environment. Most Chick-fil-A restaurants are locally owned and operated by independent, franchised Operators who invest in the future of their Team Members and give back to their communities.

Benefits

Supplemental income, Bonus pay, Other, Flexible schedule, Health insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, Life insurance, 401(k) matching, Referral program, Employee discount, Paid training, Profit sharing

Job Type

Full time, Part time

Schedule

8 hour shift, 10 hour shift, Weekend availability, Day shift, Night shift, Monday to Friday, 12 hour shift