Assistant Restaurant Manager

CEC Entertainment, LLC, headquartered in Irving, Texas, is a nationally recognized leader in family dining and entertainment, operating the iconic Chuck E. Cheese, Peter Piper Pizza, and Chuck's Arcade brands. Known for celebrating over half a million birthdays annually, Chuck E. Cheese is dedicated to creating joyful, lasting memories through fun, food, and play. It is celebrated as a place "Where a Kid Can Be a Kid®" and is committed to safety with initiatives like Kid Check® and significant community support, having donated more than $24 million to schools and nonprofits. The company is honored with accolades such as the "Best in STEM" award and recognition as one of America’s Greatest Workplaces, highlighting both its innovative and employee-centric culture. Peter Piper Pizza offers a neighborhood pizzeria experience focused on quality food, engaging entertainment, and bringing families and communities together through "The Fun is Baked In" philosophy. With nearly 600 Chuck E. Cheese locations and over 120 Peter Piper Pizza venues across 45 states and 18 countries, CEC Entertainment fosters diversity, inclusion, and fun to unite every family.

The Assistant Manager role at Chuck E. Cheese presents an exciting opportunity to level up your management career in the family entertainment industry. This high-energy, high-reward position involves leading a team committed to ensuring that every guest leaves happy. As an Assistant Manager, you will make critical daily decisions involving time management, staff scheduling, cleanliness, and maintaining product and guest service standards. This role includes building sales and maximizing profits by recruiting, training, developing, and motivating your team to meet company and guest expectations. You will coach and inspire your team to deliver outstanding guest service while ensuring a safe, clean, and smoothly run environment. You will also gain comprehensive operational experience by taking ownership of an Area of Impact (AOI) in areas such as the Kitchen, Sales, Showroom, or Gameroom, completing rotations across these critical functions over time.

In the Kitchen, you will manage product ordering, food safety, scheduling, and cleanliness while overseeing pizza dough preparation from scratch and cooking menu items. The Sales area requires oversight of the Cashier, Salad Bar, and Gift Shop, where you will monitor sales results, including upselling and suggestive selling programs, and manage inventory, ordering, and profitability of merchandise. In the Showroom, you will lead birthday party planning and execution to maximize bookings and guest satisfaction. The Gameroom partnership with the Technical Manager focuses on maintaining game and equipment functionality with minimal downtime, analyzing game play data, and maintaining cleanliness.

This role demands strong leadership skills such as coaching and developing others, effective communication, composure, resourcefulness, ethics and integrity, and time and priority management. Assistant Managers must be capable of working 40 hours per week, hold a high school diploma or GED, be at least 21 years old (or meet local legal age requirements with approval), and have at least one year of experience managing people in food service or six months as an Opening Coordinator. The position involves physical work including lifting up to 50 pounds, standing, bending, kneeling, reaching, pushing/pulling, walking, squatting, and working in environments with flashing lights, moving parts, loud noise, and varying temperatures.

CEC Entertainment offers competitive wages ranging from $13.97 to $17.46 per hour, with commission opportunities for both Exempt and Non-Exempt employees based on membership and Fun Pass sales. This role includes the benefits of working with one of the most beloved family entertainment brands while enjoying comprehensive health, dental, vision, life, disability, and 401(k) plans, as well as career development opportunities. The company emphasizes a safe and health-conscious workplace with rigorous sanitation standards and is committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, gender, age, disability, or other protected classes.