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Restaurateur

Chipotle Mexican Grill

Minneapolis, MNJob$55–78K/yrSeen 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago

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Compensation
$55–78K/yr
Location
Minneapolis, MN
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Restaurateur runs restaurant operations and delivers an outstanding dining experience while developing a high-performing crew and management team. The role focuses on building future managers, maintaining service, safety, cleanliness, organization, food quality, and ambience, and creating strong financial performance. The ideal candidate has developed an empowered team and a shared restaurant vision. An associate degree or equivalent education and/or experience is listed; a bachelor’s degree is desirable.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Team DevelopmentTeam LeadershipRestaurant VisionPrimary Language ProficiencyPC Proficiency

Qualifications

Associate's in Related Field or EquivalentBachelor's DegreePrimary Language Proficiency

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off

Full job description

CULTIVATE A BETTER WORLD

Food served fast does not have to be a typical fast-food experience. Chipotle has always done things differently, both in and out of our restaurants. We are changing the face of fast food, starting conversations, and directly supporting efforts to shift the future of farming and food. We hope you will join us as we continue to learn, evolve, and shape what comes next on our mission to make better food accessible to everyone.

THE OPPORTUNITY

Responsibilities

In addition to following Chipotle’s policies and procedures, principal responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Running excellent restaurant(s) and delivering an outstanding dining experience to every customer

  • Identifying crew with the potential to become future managers

  • Developing a high performing crew and management team

  • Ensuring a deep bench of future managers

  • Quickly improving or removing low performers

  • Motivating, inspiring, and constantly challenging the team to achieve at their highest level

  • Understanding that everyone’s success is elevated by the success of those around them, and creating a culture where people act accordingly

  • Ensuring restaurants have excellent service, safety, cleanliness, organization, food quality, and ambience

  • Creating strong financial performance

The ideal candidate will:

  • Have developed an empowered team of top performers who understand Chipotle’s high standards and consistently achieve them

  • Have created a vision for their restaurant and has their entire team working with a sense of purpose toward the goal of becoming a Restaurateur

  • A.A. in related field or equivalent in education and/ or experience

  • B.A./B.S. desirable

  • Must be able to speak, read, write, and understand the primary language(s) of the work location

  • PC proficiency

  • Developed an empowered team of top performers who understand Chipotle’s high standards and consistently achieve them

  • Created a vision for their restaurant and has their entire team working with a sense of purpose toward the goal of becoming a Restaurateur

PAY TRANSPARENCY

A reasonable estimate of the current base pay range for this position is $55,000.00–$77,500.00. You are also eligible for annual cash bonuses and equity awards based upon performance and other factors. Actual compensation offered may vary depending on skill level, experience, and/or education. Chipotle offers a competitive total rewards package, which includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401k, sick leave, vacation time, and much more. Visit https://jobs.chipotle.com/benefits for more details.

WHO WE ARE

Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE: CMG) is cultivating a better world by serving responsibly sourced, classically cooked, real food with wholesome ingredients without artificial colors, flavors or preservatives. Chipotle has restaurants in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Germany and is the only restaurant company of its size that owns and operates all its restaurants in North America and Europe. With employees passionate about providing a great guest experience, Chipotle is a longtime leader and innovator in the food industry. Chipotle is committed to making its food more accessible to everyone while continuing to be a brand with a demonstrated purpose as it leads the way in digital, technology and sustainable business practices. For more information or to place an order online, visit WWW.CHIPOTLE.COM

Chipotle Mexican Grill is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity at all levels. As a people-first company rooted in values, our purpose extends beyond serving nutritious food using real ingredients. It means hiring world-class individuals and fostering a culture that champions diversity, ensures equity, and celebrates inclusion. All qualified applicants, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply.

Qualified applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and/or certain state or local laws. Please contact [email protected] if you need an accommodation due to a disability to complete an application, job interview, and/or to otherwise participate in the hiring process. This email does not respond to non-accommodations related requests.

How this job compares

Set against the 13,194 open Restaurant Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$55–78K/yr
  • Minnesota median$53–62K/yr40 salary ranges
  • US median$58–70K/yr1,752 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $66K, is 17% above the Minnesota median midpoint ($57K) — in the top quarter of Restaurant Manager salary ranges in Minnesota.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 156 open Restaurant Manager jobs in Minnesota and 13,194 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Minnesota
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 (4,519 postings).
Education
74 of the 13,194 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 27, 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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