Pastini Pastaria Career Opportunities
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Opportunity Snapshot

This role offers you the opportunity to manage one of our neighborhood restaurants as you gain valuable industry experience and join a local Oregon company with a passion for pasta. As General Manager you will take the reins at one of our Portland locations where you will be responsible for the restaurant’s overall operations -- including staff development, food quality, cleanliness, budgets, customer loyalty initiatives and much more. You will work to successfully meet food and beverage costs, have the restaurant adequately staffed and trained and meet the overall sales goals. If you’re eager to use your employee development experience to take your career to the next level and work for a local company with the stability of a larger corporation with structure, then this could be the ideal opportunity for you! Quick question for you - click here?

Pastini Pastarias are Oregon’s homegrown Italian bistros with a passion for pasta. With eight locations throughout Portland, Corvallis and Bend, our reverence for the splendid noodle inspired us to create over 30 classic and contemporary pasta dishes using fresh, local ingredients in the tradition of the neighborhood bistros of Italy. Pastini truly has something for every pasta aficionado. Complementing our pastas are authentic antipasti, crisp salads, rustic sandwiches, and handcrafted desserts. Our well-priced wine list includes bottles from both stellar Oregon wineries and small, family-owned vineyards in Italy. Or you can sip a Pastini Italian Cocktail or quaff a local microbrew. At Pastini, local means fresher, and fresher tastes better. Pastini is always fresh, from the heart, and ready when you are! 

The Requirements

To be a good fit for this opportunity you will have: 
  • A high school diploma. 
  • Solid management experience, including demonstrated success in team development, budgeting, meeting sales goals and managing costs of goods. A background in restaurants, retail, educational/medical services, or hospitality could all be a good fit. Quick question for you - click here
  • Excellent customer service skills and a friendly, outgoing personality. 
  • Strong communication skills. 
  • Proven leadership skills and the ability to work with all members of the team and customers. 
  • The ability to multi-task, prioritize and effectively manage time and projects.
  • An action orientation, including the initiative to recognize the needs of the team, restaurant and customers. 
  • A professional, honest and trustworthy demeanor. 
  • The ability to obtain an OLCC license and Food Handlers card. 
  • Familiarity with POS systems is preferred but not required.
  • A valid driver’s license and clean driving record. 
  • A passion for food and all things pasta!
  • You’ll be expected to travel locally approximately once per month to our training facility for ongoing professional development. 

The Role

Reporting to the District Manager, as General Manager you will assume the total responsibility of one of our six restaurants located throughout Portland. Our restaurants have an average of 25 employees, and youll be responsible for developing and managing a team between the front of the house and back of the house departments, including an Assistant General Manager, Kitchen Manager, Lead Line Cook and the hosts, servers, line cooks and dishwashers. Your key objectives will be to drive sales, maintain high standards for safety and sanitation for both the environment and people and develop a successful team. You will also be responsible for:
  • Operational standards
  • Food expediting
  • Cost controls
  • Accounting and cash control
  • Employee development
  • Purchasing and purveyor relations
Well look to you to operate the restaurant as if it was your own business. You'll maintain a high level of excellence in quality, service, cleanliness, consistency and value to produce the restaurant goal for profit. Balancing profitability is a key component to the role and you will ensure everything from food, beverage and labor costs -- all the way down to paper products, china, and repairs and maintenance -- are managed efficiently according to budgets and maximum profitability.

This is a hands-on management position where you will be active on the floor during service. On any given day you will be monitoring food preparation by the kitchen and ensuring all items are prepared correctly before serving to the guest, while also communicating seating flow of dining room and bar to kitchen management or lead. You will also handle catering deliveries throughout the local area as needed.

It is important that the GM is present on heavy volume days and days when the AGM is also there. You'll work a five-day workweek, (consistently three days of 8-9 hours and two days of 12-13 hours a day), and you'll work through the dinner hour on Friday and/or Saturday nights. We place a high value on flexibility and work/life balance, and it will be your duty to establish the most effective schedule for the management team (front and back of house) that provides the best coverage of the restaurant.

Note: this description is intended to give you a general overview of the position and is not an exhaustive listing of duties and responsibilities.

Pictured: Spaghetti and Meatballs -- Our handmade meatballs of beef and pork simmered in savory marinara sauce . . . Italian soul food.

Why Pastini Pastaria

Impact and Ownership -- after completing our comprehensive 3-month training program (which includes job shadowing and classroom-based training), you'll be primed to take full ownership of your Pastini restaurant. We empower our GMs to make a difference, and this is a unique opportunity to gain industry experience and impact a dynamic team of professionals. You'll have the guidance from your District Managers combined with the resources and support of our corporate organization.

Great Environment -- we take pride in our collaborative, team-focused environment. Although you'll delegate individual departmental tasks to other management members, you'll find that each of our restaurants operates as a cohesive, professional family unit and sharing responsibilities across roles is common. This is a safety-conscious environment where successes and "happiness moments" are celebrated and encouraged.

Commitment to the Community -- as a local, Oregon company, Pastini is committed to giving back to our schools and our communities. Our Pasta-thon program partners with schools in our neighborhoods and other non-profit organizations to fundraise, and in the past 12 months, Pastini has donated over $30,000 from pasta-thons! For everyone that visits the Pastini location and mentions the school or organization, we donate 50% of the net proceeds of the table's check which equates to 20% of the dollars spent. Raising money never tasted so good!

Fresh and Local -- at Pastini we believe in local and that inspires everything we do. We started and are still based locally in Portland, OR. We are personally involved in every aspect of our restaurants. We know that using fresh, local ingredients makes a difference to our customers and to our community. From our hand-formed authentic meatballs to our homemade croutons, we live by the value that local means fresher and fresher tastes better. In fact, you'll have the opportunity to tour the farms where our mushrooms our grown and lamb is raised; something that you won't find at other companies.

Green Pastini -- we make every effort to reduce our impact on the environment. Some of our green initiatives include: composting organic waste, buying local, using compostable food containers made from corn, sourcing from sustainable suppliers, recycling, and using hybrid compound products that utilize less plastic. We have and will continue to seek out innovative ways to reduce our global footprint.

Excellent compensation -- in addition to a competitive salary plus bonus structure, we offer a comprehensive benefits package including all you would expect, plus some pleasant surprises. Besides our medical, dental and life insurance benefits, you'll enjoy other perks such as complimentary shift meals, on the house dining with friends and family, and paid vacation and sick time.

Pictured: Pastini's authentic pastas, fresh salads, sandwich platters and housemade Tiramisu are the perfect catering option for an office party, seminar or event.

Keys to Success

To excel in this role you will possess a combination of excellent customer service skills and leadership abilities. You’ll need to have an ability to gain a holistic understanding of both front and back of house operations and how these two functions can work together to meet the overall service and quality goals of the restaurant. Your people development skills will be key, and you will work to maintain a high level of employee morale and coach, motivate and encourage your team members through ongoing training, one-on-one meetings and other sound human resources practices. 

About Us

The first Pastini Pastaria in Portland's Irvington neighborhood was born out of our passion for pasta and a hankering for an affordable Italian restaurant where food was still made from scratch. Thankfully, Portland heartily embraced our small pastaria and we now have eight Pastini's in Portland, Bend and Corvallis, OR. We may have grown a bit, but we're still putting our hearts into handcrafting fresh, authentic, affordable pastas. We research and test each recipe in our home kitchen before we serve it to you. We partner with community organizations and schools to raise money for causes in which we believe.

Whether you are having a quick bowl of pasta when you’re too busy to cook, or an evening out with friends or family, Pastini is always fresh, from the heart, and ready when you are! And, we offer gluten free alternatives. Come and experience the difference that local makes!

Pictured: Pastini NE Broadway is Pastini Pastaria's original Italian bistro, located in the center of the Historic Irvington shopping district. You'll enjoy the cozy ambiance with original brick walls and art glass lighting at the restaurant that started it all!

Opportunity Snapshot

This role offers you the opportunity to manage one of our neighborhood restaurants as you gain valuable industry experience and join a local Oregon company with a passion for pasta. As General Manager you will take the reins at one of our Portland locations where you will be responsible for the restaurant’s overall operations -- including staff development, food quality, cleanliness, budgets, customer loyalty initiatives and much more. You will work to successfully meet food and beverage costs, have the restaurant adequately staffed and trained and meet the overall sales goals. If you’re eager to use your employee development experience to take your career to the next level and work for a local company with the stability of a larger corporation with structure, then this could be the ideal opportunity for you! Quick question for you - click here?

Pastini Pastarias are Oregon’s homegrown Italian bistros with a passion for pasta. With eight locations throughout Portland, Corvallis and Bend, our reverence for the splendid noodle inspired us to create over 30 classic and contemporary pasta dishes using fresh, local ingredients in the tradition of the neighborhood bistros of Italy. Pastini truly has something for every pasta aficionado. Complementing our pastas are authentic antipasti, crisp salads, rustic sandwiches, and handcrafted desserts. Our well-priced wine list includes bottles from both stellar Oregon wineries and small, family-owned vineyards in Italy. Or you can sip a Pastini Italian Cocktail or quaff a local microbrew. At Pastini, local means fresher, and fresher tastes better. Pastini is always fresh, from the heart, and ready when you are! 

The Requirements

To be a good fit for this opportunity you will have: 
  • A high school diploma. 
  • Solid management experience, including demonstrated success in team development, budgeting, meeting sales goals and managing costs of goods. A background in restaurants, retail, educational/medical services, or hospitality could all be a good fit. Quick question for you - click here
  • Excellent customer service skills and a friendly, outgoing personality. 
  • Strong communication skills. 
  • Proven leadership skills and the ability to work with all members of the team and customers. 
  • The ability to multi-task, prioritize and effectively manage time and projects.
  • An action orientation, including the initiative to recognize the needs of the team, restaurant and customers. 
  • A professional, honest and trustworthy demeanor. 
  • The ability to obtain an OLCC license and Food Handlers card. 
  • Familiarity with POS systems is preferred but not required.
  • A valid driver’s license and clean driving record. 
  • A passion for food and all things pasta!
  • You’ll be expected to travel locally approximately once per month to our training facility for ongoing professional development. 

The Role

Reporting to the District Manager, as General Manager you will assume the total responsibility of one of our six restaurants located throughout Portland. Our restaurants have an average of 25 employees, and youll be responsible for developing and managing a team between the front of the house and back of the house departments, including an Assistant General Manager, Kitchen Manager, Lead Line Cook and the hosts, servers, line cooks and dishwashers. Your key objectives will be to drive sales, maintain high standards for safety and sanitation for both the environment and people and develop a successful team. You will also be responsible for:
  • Operational standards
  • Food expediting
  • Cost controls
  • Accounting and cash control
  • Employee development
  • Purchasing and purveyor relations
Well look to you to operate the restaurant as if it was your own business. You'll maintain a high level of excellence in quality, service, cleanliness, consistency and value to produce the restaurant goal for profit. Balancing profitability is a key component to the role and you will ensure everything from food, beverage and labor costs -- all the way down to paper products, china, and repairs and maintenance -- are managed efficiently according to budgets and maximum profitability.

This is a hands-on management position where you will be active on the floor during service. On any given day you will be monitoring food preparation by the kitchen and ensuring all items are prepared correctly before serving to the guest, while also communicating seating flow of dining room and bar to kitchen management or lead. You will also handle catering deliveries throughout the local area as needed.

It is important that the GM is present on heavy volume days and days when the AGM is also there. You'll work a five-day workweek, (consistently three days of 8-9 hours and two days of 12-13 hours a day), and you'll work through the dinner hour on Friday and/or Saturday nights. We place a high value on flexibility and work/life balance, and it will be your duty to establish the most effective schedule for the management team (front and back of house) that provides the best coverage of the restaurant.

Note: this description is intended to give you a general overview of the position and is not an exhaustive listing of duties and responsibilities.

Pictured: Spaghetti and Meatballs -- Our handmade meatballs of beef and pork simmered in savory marinara sauce . . . Italian soul food.

Why Pastini Pastaria

Impact and Ownership -- after completing our comprehensive 3-month training program (which includes job shadowing and classroom-based training), you'll be primed to take full ownership of your Pastini restaurant. We empower our GMs to make a difference, and this is a unique opportunity to gain industry experience and impact a dynamic team of professionals. You'll have the guidance from your District Managers combined with the resources and support of our corporate organization.

Great Environment -- we take pride in our collaborative, team-focused environment. Although you'll delegate individual departmental tasks to other management members, you'll find that each of our restaurants operates as a cohesive, professional family unit and sharing responsibilities across roles is common. This is a safety-conscious environment where successes and "happiness moments" are celebrated and encouraged.

Commitment to the Community -- as a local, Oregon company, Pastini is committed to giving back to our schools and our communities. Our Pasta-thon program partners with schools in our neighborhoods and other non-profit organizations to fundraise, and in the past 12 months, Pastini has donated over $30,000 from pasta-thons! For everyone that visits the Pastini location and mentions the school or organization, we donate 50% of the net proceeds of the table's check which equates to 20% of the dollars spent. Raising money never tasted so good!

Fresh and Local -- at Pastini we believe in local and that inspires everything we do. We started and are still based locally in Portland, OR. We are personally involved in every aspect of our restaurants. We know that using fresh, local ingredients makes a difference to our customers and to our community. From our hand-formed authentic meatballs to our homemade croutons, we live by the value that local means fresher and fresher tastes better. In fact, you'll have the opportunity to tour the farms where our mushrooms our grown and lamb is raised; something that you won't find at other companies.

Green Pastini -- we make every effort to reduce our impact on the environment. Some of our green initiatives include: composting organic waste, buying local, using compostable food containers made from corn, sourcing from sustainable suppliers, recycling, and using hybrid compound products that utilize less plastic. We have and will continue to seek out innovative ways to reduce our global footprint.

Excellent compensation -- in addition to a competitive salary plus bonus structure, we offer a comprehensive benefits package including all you would expect, plus some pleasant surprises. Besides our medical, dental and life insurance benefits, you'll enjoy other perks such as complimentary shift meals, on the house dining with friends and family, and paid vacation and sick time.

Pictured: Pastini's authentic pastas, fresh salads, sandwich platters and housemade Tiramisu are the perfect catering option for an office party, seminar or event.

Keys to Success

To excel in this role you will possess a combination of excellent customer service skills and leadership abilities. You’ll need to have an ability to gain a holistic understanding of both front and back of house operations and how these two functions can work together to meet the overall service and quality goals of the restaurant. Your people development skills will be key, and you will work to maintain a high level of employee morale and coach, motivate and encourage your team members through ongoing training, one-on-one meetings and other sound human resources practices. 

About Us

The first Pastini Pastaria in Portland's Irvington neighborhood was born out of our passion for pasta and a hankering for an affordable Italian restaurant where food was still made from scratch. Thankfully, Portland heartily embraced our small pastaria and we now have eight Pastini's in Portland, Bend and Corvallis, OR. We may have grown a bit, but we're still putting our hearts into handcrafting fresh, authentic, affordable pastas. We research and test each recipe in our home kitchen before we serve it to you. We partner with community organizations and schools to raise money for causes in which we believe.

Whether you are having a quick bowl of pasta when you’re too busy to cook, or an evening out with friends or family, Pastini is always fresh, from the heart, and ready when you are! And, we offer gluten free alternatives. Come and experience the difference that local makes!

Pictured: Pastini NE Broadway is Pastini Pastaria's original Italian bistro, located in the center of the Historic Irvington shopping district. You'll enjoy the cozy ambiance with original brick walls and art glass lighting at the restaurant that started it all!
Pastini Pastaria is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.
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