
Kitchen Manager
Lexington, KYFull-timePosted 1 day agoStill listed today
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Job overview
The Kitchen Manager creates guest and team-member experiences by managing the Heart-of-House, overseeing its execution and performance, and directing and supervising HOH team members. Buffalo Wild Wings presents the role as an opportunity to continue a restaurant management career and offers training, advancement opportunities, and a range of benefits, subject to availability and eligibility requirements.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
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Benefits
Full job description
In most jobs, everyone doesn’t spontaneously erupt into applause and start raining down high-fives. At Buffalo Wild Wings, that’s just a Thursday night. This is the place to start the next phase of your restaurant management career. Whether you grow in our system here or your game-plan takes you elsewhere, we want you to have an experience that lasts a lifetime.
GAME TIME ENERGY, LIFETIME EXPERIENCE You will create legendary experiences for guests and team members through the management of the Heart-of-House (HOH) as the Kitchen Manager. You will oversee the execution and performance of the HOH and will provide direction and supervision for all HOH team members.
HOME OF THE GREATEST OF ALL TIMES Buffalo Wild Wings fuels moments worth sharing – for our guests and for our team members. And, when that means access to all these benefits – well, that’s just another day at the office.
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Weekly Pay
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Bonus Program*
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Free Shift Meals & Discounted Meals*
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Best in Class Training & Continuous Learning
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Advancement Opportunities
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Paid Time Off*
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401(k) Retirement Plan*
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Tuition Benefits*
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Medical, Dental and Vision*
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Champions of Hope*
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Cash Referral Program
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Journey Wellbeing Support Tool
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PerkSpot Discount Program
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Recognition Program
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Slip Resistant Shoes Programs
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Community & Charitable Involvement
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Igniting Dreams Grant Program
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Training Contests
YOU GOT THIS
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Preferably, you have 2 years of restaurant, bar, or kitchen management experience.
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You have a general knowledge of labor laws, health codes, safe food handling and sanitation, responsible alcohol service, safety and security systems and procedures, and computer operations.
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You have a passion for training and developing your team.
Not sure if your experience aligns? We encourage you to apply. Sports-lover or not, all backgrounds are welcome here.
Buffalo Wild Wings, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. *Subject to availability and certain eligibility requirements.
How this job compares
Set against the 13,212 open Restaurant Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$59–70K/yr1,763 salary ranges
- US median$19–21/hr1,699 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 199 open Restaurant Manager jobs in Kentucky and 13,212 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Kentucky
- McDonald's67 open
- Carrols Corporation65 open
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- Experience
- Restaurant Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (4,527 postings).
- Education
- 74 of the 13,212 open Restaurant Manager jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 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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