General Manager
Morrisville, NCJobPosted 2w agoStill listed 6 days ago
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Job overview
The General Manager oversees restaurant operations and team members, providing leadership and motivation to keep teams guest-focused and team-focused. The role sets standards and creates a positive work atmosphere for successful daily operations. It includes people development, inventory, labor, staffing, coaching, training, accountability, guest service, and ownership of each shift.
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Full job description
Company Profile: At CAVA, we make it deliciously simple to eat well and feel good every day. We are guided by a Mediterranean heritage that’s been perfecting how to eat and live for four thousand years. We prioritize authenticity, curiosity and the pursuit of excellence in everything we do. We are working towards something big, together.
We foster a culture built on five core values:
- Generosity First, Always: We lead with kindness. Our best work happens when we act in service of others.
- Constant Curiosity: We are eager to learn, grow, and explore beyond the obvious.
- Act with Agility: We welcome change; it’s the only constant. We embrace, adjust, adapt.
- Passion for Positivity: We greet each day with warmth and possibility.
- Collective Ambition: We have high aspirations that are achieved when we work together with a shared purpose.
General Manager: Managers will oversee all restaurant operations and team members. Managers provide leadership and motivation to ensure that all team members are guest-focused and team-focused. Managers set high standards and establish a positive work atmosphere for their team to create successful day-to-day operations.
What You’ll Bring to the Table:
- Develop yourself and others – focus on self-improvement while supporting the success of others
- Lead your four-wall operation like you own it – from people development, to inventory, labor, staffing, and accountability
- Put the customer first – including your internal customers, your team. You will be responsible for regular people planning, coaching, training, accountability, and when necessary, corrective action
- Consistently create CAVA fanatics – find ways to say “yes” to every guest, inspiring your teams to do the same
- Achieve results – take ownership of every shift and take pride in your job
- Foster collaboration – work with others to find success as a group
- Adapt to change – solve problems through an open-minded and all-inclusive approach
- Assist with any additional duties assigned
What We Bring to the Table (Benefits): We’ve got you covered. Here are just some of the benefits available to CAVA team members:
- Competitive pay $
- Early Wage Access*
- Health, Dental, Vision, Telemedicine, Pet Insurance plus more!*
- 401k enrollment with CAVA contribution*
- Paid sick leave, parental leave, and community service leave*
- FREE CAVA Meal for every shift worked (YEP, that’s right, FREE CAVA!)
- The opportunity to be on the ground floor of a rapidly growing brand
*indicates eligible qualifying positions
Physical Requirements:
- Must be able to bend and reach overhead often
- Must possess dexterity to handle tongs, pots/pans, and other equipment
- Must be comfortable working in temperatures ranging from hot to cold
- Must be comfortable working near open flames
- May be required to work in tight spaces
- Must maintain near constant communication with multiple people
- Close vision, distance vision, and peripheral vision are required
- Must be able to sit, squat and kneel occasionally
- Must be able to work in a constant state of alertness and safe manner
- May be required to occasionally work in outdoor weather conditions
- May stand for long periods of time and lift up to 50 pounds
As an equal opportunity employer, CAVA considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, age, height, weight, marital status, sexual orientation, familial status, genetic information or any other characteristic or protected classes as defined by federal, state, or local law.
CAVA – joining “A culture, not a concept”
General Manager | Restaurant Manager | Café Manager | Store Manager | Deli Manager | Assistant General Manager | Operations Manager |Managing Partner
How this job compares
Set against the 13,194 open Restaurant Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- North Carolina median$45–60K/yr49 salary ranges
- North Carolina median$16–18/hr27 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 637 open Restaurant Manager jobs in North Carolina and 13,194 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in North Carolina
- McDonald's246 open
- Carrols Corporation123 open
- Flynn Taco Bell68 open
- 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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