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ONPOINT Business Solutions lists this Chief Operating Officer opportunity in columbus, Ohio. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
ONPOINT Business Solutions is conducting a confidential, retained search on behalf of a profitable, founder-led restaurant group in Columbus, Ohio, to identify a next-stage Chief Operating Officer for their growing restaurant portfolio.
Are you the type of person who can take a growing business and engineer the operating system that brings order, consistency, and scale — naturally architecting the structure, cadence, and process behind it?
Our client currently operates six locations in the Columbus market, with a seventh opening soon and a clear runway for additional growth. The flagship concept is a high-volume neighborhood sports bar and grill with strong local sports traffic (Ohio State, March Madness, NFL, and more) and a young, community-oriented culture.
In this role, you will:
Run the day-to-day operating platform across all current and future locations
Architect systems, playbooks, and leadership cadence that turn the founders' vision into repeatable ways of operating
Lead and develop director-level leaders across operations, development, culinary, and analytics
Build accountability rhythms — 1:1s, leadership meetings, quarterly planning — that keep initiatives moving
Design scalable people systems around hiring, onboarding, development, and succession planning
Support new unit growth end-to-end, from planning through post-opening stabilization
Preserve the brand's authentic, non-corporate feel while adding the discipline a larger organization needs
Required:
Multi-unit restaurant leadership experience — ideally as a COO, VP of Operations, Regional/Multi-Unit Director, or similar, across casual dining, bar-and-grill, sports-bar, or other high-volume restaurant concepts.
This could be a strong fit if you also:
Love building and refining operating systems, not just inheriting them
Are comfortable in a founder-led, entrepreneurial environment where trust is high and decision-making is fast
Can coach and develop a range of personalities while holding them to well-defined standards
Know how to bring professionalism and structure without losing a brand's energy and local personality
Compensation is competitive and commensurate with leadership experience.
The identity of the hiring organization will be shared with qualified candidates upon our initial outreach.
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Worksite address
columbus, OH, 43224, US
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