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What they do

Chipotle Mexican Grill cooks Mexican food to order. Its postings say it serves responsibly sourced, classically cooked food with no artificial colors, flavors, or preservatives. It has restaurants in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. It is the only restaurant company of its size that owns and operates all its restaurants in North America and Europe.

What they value

• Cultivating a Better World, the mission every posting opens with.
• Guest obsession, which postings name as a standard and as a passion.
• Promotion from the crew up, which the Apprentice roles on the board exist for.
• Running a restaurant as a business, with a schedule, a P&L, and a forecast.
• Food safety and operational compliance, which every manager posting lists.
• Tuition assistance, which every restaurant posting lists as a benefit.

Where they hire

Of 228 postings, 17 are at the 610 Newport office and 15 are at the 500 Neil Ave office. The rest sit one or two to a restaurant across the United States, plus field support roles in Ontario and Alberta in Canada. No posting is remote. No posting mentions sponsorship or the right to work.

Teams and roles

Restaurant operations holds 200 of the 228 postings. The support center holds the rest, in small numbers.

• Restaurant management: General Manager is the single largest title, with 107 postings. Assistant Manager holds 12 and Assistant General Manager holds 10.
• Apprentices: Apprentice Hourly, Apprentice General Manager, and Apprentice Manager together hold 35 postings. These are the training route into running a restaurant.
• Field leadership: eight Field Leader postings, who run a group of restaurants.
• Facilities: seven Facilities Field Technician postings, plus facilities managers and a facilities training manager.
• Support center: ten information technology postings, five finance, four human resources, three purchasing, three marketing, and two safety. Titles include Senior Engineer for IT Security Engineering, Product Manager for Business Intelligence, Analyst for Accounts Payable, and a Global Security Operations Center coordinator.

What they look for

The General Manager posting requires previous restaurant management experience, and names scheduling, P&L management, food safety, sales forecasting, and recruiting. It states the physical demands: the ability to stand and walk around the restaurant for 10 hours a day and to lift 50 pounds. It asks for a schedule that covers lunch, dinner, and weekend shifts. The Apprentice postings ask instead for a strong desire to grow into a General Manager, so they accept people without management experience. The Facilities Field Technician posting asks for trade knowledge of carpentry, plumbing, electrical work, commercial cooking equipment, appliance repair, and basic heating and refrigeration. It also asks for a clean motor vehicle report, because the work means driving between restaurants.