About the role
Compensation: $90,000 - $100,000
General Manager – Restaurant & Café
- Location: Cambridge, MA
- Schedule: Onsite | Full-Time
- Compensation: Approximately $100,000 Base Salary
- A Restaurant Leadership Role With a Schedule You Can Actually Live With
We are partnering with a well-established, high-volume restaurant group in Cambridge to hire an experienced
General Manager
to lead a unique all-day concept combining a bustling café with a full-service lunch and dinner restaurant. And unlike many GM opportunities in hospitality, this role offers a schedule designed to provide some consistency:
Sundays & Mondays off
Primarily 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM shifts
Only one closing shift per week , approximately 3:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Major holidays are protected
Flexible PTO
This is an opportunity for a proven restaurant leader who enjoys being on the floor, building strong teams, creating a great guest experience, and managing the details behind a successful operation.
The environment is fast-paced but highly stable, with a long-tenured management team and a strong emphasis on hospitality, quality, consistency, and culture.
Previous General Manager experience is required.
We are looking for someone who has already successfully led a full-service restaurant and wants to find a long-term home where they can make an impact.
What You’ll Do
As General Manager, you will have ownership of the day-to-day operation while leading and developing the restaurant's management and front-of-house teams.
Lead daily operations across
- café, lunch, and dinner service
- Manage, coach, and develop a large front-of-house team and supporting management staff
- Oversee scheduling, payroll, hiring, onboarding, training, and ongoing development
- Maintain high standards for hospitality, service, cleanliness, and overall guest experience
- Manage high-volume shifts while remaining calm, organized, and visible on the floor
- Oversee ordering and support inventory and operational controls
- Manage reservations, private events, and third-party takeout/delivery operations
- Monitor staffing levels and adjust operations based on daily and seasonal volume
- Partner with ownership and operations leadership on sales goals and business performance
- Create accountability while maintaining a positive, welcoming, team-oriented culture
- Identify opportunities to improve processes, service, and restaurant operations
- Develop future leaders within the organization
What We’re Looking For
The ideal candidate will bring:
- 2+ years of General Manager experience within a full-service restaurant
- Experience managing a high-volume restaurant operation
- Strong people leadership and team-development skills
A hospitality-first mentality
Experience managing multiple service periods and operating styles
Strong attention to det
Benefits & Perks
Approximately $100,000 base salary
Health insurance
, with the company covering approximately 50% of the premium
Health benefits eligibility after 90 days
Flexible PTO
, starting around two weeks with flexibility based on experience
Thanksgiving and Christmas off
No traditional PTO blackout periods
Sundays and Mondays off
Predominantly daytime schedule, with most shifts running 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Only one closing shift per week , approximately 3:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Parking included
Stable, long-tenured leadership team
Opportunity for long-term growth as the organization explores future locations and concepts
Why Join?
This is a stable, established restaurant with a leadership team that believes strongly in taking care of its people. You’ll be joining an operation that values hospitality, personality, creativity, adaptability, and quality — without the late-night schedule that comes with many restaurant leadership positions.
If you're an experienced restaurant General Manager who thrives in a busy environment, loves building great teams, and wants a restaurant leadership career that still provides some predictability and work-life balance, we would love to connect.
We look forward to your application!