Area Manager - New York City

When Chipotle first opened, the idea was simple: show that food served fast didn't have to be a "fast-food"? experience. We use high-quality raw ingredients and classic cooking methods, serve in a distinctively designed atmosphere, and provide an exceptional customer experience—features more frequently found in the world of fine dining.

Description At Chipotle, we’re committed to creating a performance-based culture that leads to the best restaurant experience possible for our employees and our customers. We believe in developing our people by making them better, and promoting from within. It is essential that anyone hired into this role will establish themselves as a top performer, develop people quickly, and move on to the next level of operations leadership.

The primary responsibility of the Area Manager is to develop Restaurateur cultures in each of the restaurants they oversee. A Restaurateur culture at Chipotle means:

• The restaurant is fully staffed with only top performing crew and managers, whose constant effort to perform excellent work elevates each individual, the team, and Chipotle.

• The whole team is aware of and is living up to Chipotle’s high standards by serving great food and providing an exceptional customer experience

• All of the people on the team feel empowered and fully responsible for the success of the entire team and the restaurant.

The Area Manager at Chipotle will only be successful if they can connect with the people in their restaurants, get to know them, understand what motivates them, and help to develop them into future leaders. We believe that if the Area Manager does this successfully everything else will fall into place.

If our unique approach to developing a strong people culture by making the people around us better speaks to you and fits in with your leadership philosophy, apply today. On the other hand, if focusing on connecting with and developing people does not appeal to you, a career at Chipotle is probably not the right fit.

• Possess all of Chipotles 13 characteristics: Happy, Smart, Polite, Infectiously Enthusiastic, High Energy, Honest, Curious, Motivated, Ambitious, Presentable, Conscientious, Respectful, and Hospitable
• Understand what empowerment means and have the ability to empower their teams
• Possess the ability to make the people around them better - by creating a culture in all of their restaurants that appeals to top performers, where each person on the team is empowered to hold themselves and each other accountable to high standards
• Understand that their success is based on the success of their teams
• Have consistently demonstrated strong leadership skills
• Have strong written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills
• Possess strong supervisory and organizational skills
• Have several years of multi-unit restaurant/retail/hospitality management experience
• Be knowledgeable of and have the ability to use a PC and MS Office Suite proficiently