Kitchen Manager
Natick, MAFull-time$80–94K/yrPosted 4mo agoStill listed 5 days ago
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Job overview
Dave & Buster's is hiring a Kitchen Manager. The Kitchen Manager is the culinary expert responsible for maintaining pristine kitchen operations and managing costs to ensure financial success. This role involves selecting, motivating, and leading a team of back-of-house employees, thriving in a fast-paced environment, and enjoying new menu rollouts. The manager will also focus on improving guest experiences and elevating team performance.
Key focus areas include Hire, train, develop, and retain a talented group of BOH employees, Create a well-maintained, safe, secure, and sanitary environment, and Manage food costs, track waste, and control kitchen labor costs.
Successful candidates bring Must Be 21+, 3+ Years Restaurant/Hospitality Experience, and Ability To Work Weekends, Nights, And Holidays. Important skills include Kitchen Management, Cost Management, Leadership, Business Acumen, Hiring, and Training. Preferred (not required): Communication, Developing Employees, Retaining Employees, and Waste Tracking.
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Full job description
Job Description:
THE KITCHEN MANAGER: t he HEART of our operations. As the leaders of the kitchen, KMs are the culinary experts who keep our kitchens in pristine operating conditions. You get to select and motivate an elite group of back-of-house employees and manage the costs to ensure the overall financial success of the location.
What we are looking for!
- You love working in a fast-paced, multi-faceted restaurant/entertainment scene
- You can communicate to your team in a way that inspires FUN!
- There isn't a station you cannot work and a team you cannot lead
- You can handle 100K days & working an average of 50-hour work weeks
- You enjoy new menu rollouts and love introducing new food items to our guests
- You thrive on instant satisfaction! There's nothing better than improving someone's experience or encouraging your team to elevate their performance
Requirements:
- 21+ years of age
- 3+ years of Restaurant/Hospitality experience
- Proficient in managing the cost of goods sold and labor
- Ability to lead a team to create a memorable guest experience
- Proven experience in kitchen management
- Strong business acumen
- The ability to work weekends, nights, and holidays
- Not afraid to work in a fast-paced, noisy environment with distracting conditions
What will you be doing daily?
- You are the head coach of a talented group of BOH employees, and you are responsible for hiring, training, developing, and retaining the best team possible
- Create a well-maintained, safe, secure, and sanitary environment for all guests and staff
- Managing food costs, tracking waste, and controlling kitchen labor costs
- Understanding, managing, and practicing safe food-handling procedures
- Collaborate with the rest of the management team to drive financial results and optimize profitability in your location
PERKS!
- Competitive salary
- Quarterly bonus program
- Health, Dental, Vision, Long & Short-term Disability
- Employee Assistance Program
- Buster’s Legacy Fund (Supports team members during difficult times)
- 401K matching plan
- FREE food
- FREE gameplay
- Large leadership team = multiple managers per shift
- FUN work environment
- Grow your career!
- Two FUN brands (Dave & Buster’s and Main Event Entertainment) under one roof = Double the growth opportunities
Dave & Buster’s Inc./Main Event Entertainment is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Salary Range:
80202 -
94355
We are an equal opportunity employer and participate in E-Verify in states where required.
How this job compares
Set against the 464 open Culinary Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$80–94K/yr
- US median$75–90K/yr377 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $87K, is 3% above the US median midpoint ($85K) — in the middle half of Culinary Management salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 12 open Culinary Management jobs in Massachusetts and 464 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- Compass Group, North America339 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Culinary Management postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (247 postings).
- Education
- 0 of the 464 open Culinary Management jobs (0%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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