Disttrict Production Manager - Bakery Café
1 day ago
Phoenix
Job Description Join a fast-growing neighborhood bakery café concept dedicated to delivering expertly crafted baked goods, pastries, and brewed beverages in a warm, welcoming environment. The brand is focused on reestablishing the bakery café as the heart of the community, providing high-quality products and memorable guest experiences across multiple locations. Position Summary The District Production Manager is responsible for ensuring sanitation, quality, and operational excellence across multiple bakery café locations. This hands-on leadership role focuses on mentoring, training, and developing production teams to deliver consistent, high-quality baked goods while maintaining compliance with food safety and sanitation standards. The District Production Manager will oversee production staff, monitor operations, and implement best practices across stores in the district. Key Responsibilities • Supervise production staff across multiple locations, ensuring consistency and quality, • Recruit, hire, train, and mentor production team members, • Manage production schedules and staff workflow for efficiency and quality, • Ensure compliance with sanitation standards, health inspections, and local regulations, • Evaluate and maintain facility cleanliness and operational processes, • Monitor product quality, packaging, and displays to ensure the best guest experience, • Support new product launches through training, reporting, and quality assessment, • Track and report product costs, personnel expenses, and operational metrics, • Apply technical principles, problem-solving, and root cause analysis to operational challenges, • Foster a collaborative, engaged, and high-performance team culture, • Travel regularly to corporate and franchise locations, including new openings Ideal Candidate Profile • Confectionery/Food educational background (Culinary School coursework preferred), • Minimum 5 years of relevant bakery/café production experience, • Deep knowledge of food production processes, sanitation, and quality assurance, • Familiarity with GMP, HACCP, ISO 9000, and baking-related regulatory standards, • Strong leadership, coaching, and mentoring skills, • Excellent organizational, communication, and problem-solving abilities, • High emotional intelligence with experience managing diverse teams, • Passion for delivering exceptional guest experiences and fostering a positive team culture Benefits • Competitive compensation, • Medical, dental, and vision benefits, • 401(k) retirement plan, • Paid time off and paid holidays, • Free cake for your birthday, • Work in a high-performance, growth-oriented culture with opportunities for professional developmentCompany DescriptionRestaurantZone is one of the fastest-growing national recruiting agencies in the hospitality/restaurant space. We are a research-based retained recruitment agency & hybrid tech company that focuses on key roles for restaurants and hospitality. RestaurantZone has been featured in National Restaurant News and Total Foods Service Magazine and has worked with reputable brands like Red Lobster, Vapiano's, Chick-fil-a, Sbarro’s, McDonald's, Domino's, Cracker Barrel, Google, and Facebook. We are the cutting edge of recruiting with tech-savvy recruiters with over 100+ collective years of experience working on the team. We have hundreds of jobs to fill and grow! Our recruiters work the entire country and focus on all major locations including Los Angeles, San Diego, New York City, Chicago, Miami, Atlanta, Washington DC, Houston, Las Vegas, Denver, Hawaii, and more!RestaurantZone is one of the fastest-growing national recruiting agencies in the hospitality/restaurant space. We are a research-based retained recruitment agency & hybrid tech company that focuses on key roles for restaurants and hospitality. RestaurantZone has been featured in National Restaurant News and Total Foods Service Magazine and has worked with reputable brands like Red Lobster, Vapiano's, Chick-fil-a, Sbarro’s, McDonald's, Domino's, Cracker Barrel, Google, and Facebook. We are the cutting edge of recruiting with tech-savvy recruiters with over 100+ collective years of experience working on the team. We have hundreds of jobs to fill and grow! Our recruiters work the entire country and focus on all major locations including Los Angeles, San Diego, New York City, Chicago, Miami, Atlanta, Washington DC, Houston, Las Vegas, Denver, Hawaii, and more!