Teams at Applegreen

Leads operations for an assigned food brand across roadside plaza restaurants. Establishes sales goals, drives profitability and operational excellence, ensures brand, food safety, and service compliance, and trains restaurant teams. Coaches managers, develops leadership pipelines, supports new restaurant openings, improves traveler satisfaction, manages labor and food-cost controls, and partners with brand and franchisor teams. This field-based role visits plaza locations at least four days weekly and requires 40–50% travel.

Assist the Plaza Director in managing day-to-day operations and profitability of a highway travel plaza. Lead associates and managers to meet sales, service speed, customer satisfaction, brand and food safety standards; recruit and develop staff; enforce policies and compliance; handle customer issues; collaborate with brand partners and support functions to sustain performance and profitability.

Lead shift operations at a Panda Express within a travel plaza: supervise team members, ensure excellent customer service, follow brand standards and food safety, operate POS and cash handling, prepare and cook food, train new hires, maintain cleanliness and inventory, and report issues to plaza leadership.