Description Zalat Pizza is hiring!
We make pizza worth caring about - and we’re looking for people who feel the same.
Our Shift Leads are hands-on leaders who know how to keep the restaurant moving, the team supported, and the pizza up to standard.
What We're Looking For:
- Previous service-industry experience required
- Pizza experience strongly preferred
- Reliable and consistently punctual
- Access to dependable transportation
- Strong leadership and communication skills
- Friendly, coachable, respectful, and team-oriented
- Detail-focused and proud of your work
- Comfortable directing others and making decisions during a shift
- Able to stay calm and neutralize team stress during busy periods
- Open availability, including some opening, closing, late-night, and weekend shifts
- Must be at least 18 years old
- Must be able to stand for 6–10 hours, bend, reach, squat, and lift up to 50 lbs.
What You'll Do:
- Make pizzas and maintain our quality standards
- Open and close the restaurant
- Direct the team during shifts and rushes
- Keep the team productive during slower periods
- Handle customer concerns and operational issues
- Lead by example in prep, stocking, cleaning, and service
- May assist with inventory, scheduling, and documentation.
What We Offer:
- Competitive base pay starting from $14/hour to $16/hour based on experience
- Shared tips averaging an additional $1.50–$4.00/hour
- 50% employee discount
- Paid training
- Referral program + bonus
- Full-time equivalent employees are eligible for Health Insurance (including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability)
- 401(k) with company match after 1 year
- Opportunity to advance in management
- Always closed Thanksgiving and Christmas
Why Work Here?
We’re privately owned, steadily growing, and intentionally not very corporate. Our mission is to make the greatest pizza in the universe, and we care about doing things well - not just doing them the way they’ve always been done. That includes how we make our pizza, serve our customers, and lead our teams.
We call it Pride & Joy: take pride in what you produce, bring some personality to what you do, and help make the shift better for the people around you.
Our culture is relaxed, a little weird, and unapologetically our own.
If you like high standards, good people, and the chance to lead without spending your shift standing on the sidelines, you’ll probably fit in here.
Zalat Pizza is proudly an Equal Opportunity Employer that appreciates diversity, autonomy, and welcomes individuality. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color, ancestry, national origin, sex, religion, creed, disability, sexual orientation, gender expression, medical condition, genetic information, marital, military and veteran status. Our company will consider employing qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws.
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