Post LinkedIn Mon/Wed/Fri. Post Instagram Tue/Thu/Sat (plus one Sunday founder note). Do not post the same copy on both channels the same day.
Creative
LinkedIn: one interior photo or a simple navy/brass graphic with the role title. Instagram @3sp_co: kitchen-pass or dining-room stills, 4:5 crop, brass overlay with the city + title. No stock handshake imagery.
Tracking
UTM every link: utm_source=linkedin|instagram&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=talent-sep2026. Watch Careers → Apply in GA4.
LinkedInCandidatesWeek 1 · Monday· Open roles
Boston operators: 12 culinary and GM roles are live this week.
If you are a chef, sous, CDC, or GM in Boston and you are quietly looking — we should talk.
3SP is hiring for client restaurants across the city right now, including:
• Executive Chef, Sullivan's Castle Island — Hanover
• General Manager, Redbones — Somerville
• Chef de Cuisine, Lincoln Tavern — South Boston
• Executive Sous, Capri Italian Steakhouse
• Sous Chef roles at Prima, Fat Baby, Loco Fenway, Aquitaine, and Reel House
These are operator-led restaurants, not mystery "exciting new concepts." Compensation is listed. The application takes under 90 seconds.
If you are not seeing your exact title, join the talent network anyway. We fill roles every week that never hit a job board — C-level and president searches, plus GMs, chefs, kitchen managers, store managers, and the corporate departments behind a growth brand.
The most expensive hire is the one you make three months too late.
Most restaurant groups start recruiting when someone quits.
By then you are covering the floor, the kitchen is louder, and the candidate you actually wanted already took another role.
3SP is retained search for consumer brands — C-level through store manager, plus finance, marketing, tech, people, development, purchasing, and facilities. The full bench a growth brand actually needs.
We currently place leaders across Boston, the Southeast, South Florida, DC, Chicago, and destination restaurants from Maine to Hawai'i.
If you have a role that has been open more than 30 days, that is not a talent shortage. That is a process shortage. Confidential searches never have to hit a public board.
InstagramCandidatesWeek 1 · Tuesday· Role spotlight
Sullivan's Hanover is hiring an Executive Chef.
South Boston's Sullivan's Castle Island is now in Hanover Crossing — hybrid QSR, dining room, digital, craft cocktails, South Shore bar pizza.
They need an executive chef who can protect a legacy menu and run volume without losing the family-business soul of the restaurant.
$99k. Hanover, MA. Live now.
Save this if you know a chef who should see it. Applications through the link in bio.
#ChefJobs #BostonEats #HanoverMA #NowHiring
Link in bio · Apply in 90 seconds
InstagramBrandWeek 1 · Thursday· Proof
115+ years of restaurant operating experience. One team.
3SP is not a job board with a logo.
We are operators who recruit, open, and scale consumer brands — restaurants, retail, hospitality, and the capital that funds them.
Don Bailey and the team place the full bench: C-level, president, VP, director — GMs, executive chefs, sous, kitchen managers, restaurant and store managers — and the finance, marketing, tech, people, development, purchasing, and facilities teams that scale a brand.
If you are hiring a president, a GM, a sous chef, or a controller, the door is open.
Florida, Atlanta, Myrtle Beach, Charleston — the Southeast slate is open.
This week's non-Boston roles:
• Accounting Controller, CentraArchy — Charleston, SC · $110k
• Executive Kitchen Manager, California Dreaming — Columbia, SC · $90k
• Executive Kitchen Manager, Carolina Roadhouse — Myrtle Beach · $90k
• Senior Manager, California Dreaming — Spanish Fort, AL · $70k
• Executive Chef, Burton's — Boca Raton · $95k
• AGM roles, Burton's — Plantation, Boca, and Atlanta · $80k
• GM, Burton's — Sterling, VA · $95k
If you have been waiting for a reason to move south — or you already live there and want a better restaurant — apply once. We will route you.
Slide 1 — 3SP is hiring chefs and GMs. Not "hospitality rockstars." Actual roles, actual pay, actual cities.
Slide 2 — GM, Redbones, Somerville · $110k
Slide 3 — EC & F&B Director, Dole's Orchard, Maine · $130k
Slide 4 — Managing Director, Baker House, Ithaca · $225k
Slide 5 — Floating AGM, Fifty/50 Group, Chicago · $95k
Slide 6 — AGM, Burton's, Plantation FL · priority role · $80k
Tag an operator who should not still be "seeing what's out there."
A 3SP search looks like this — whether you are hiring a COO or a GM:
1. Scorecard — what "good" actually means in this restaurant and this role, not a recycled JD.
2. Market map — who is sitting in comparable roles, quietly.
3. Short slate — usually 4 to 6 people you would actually hire.
4. Working interview — paid, on the floor, in the kitchen, or across the leadership table. Instagram energy is not a reference.
That is why brands keep us on retainer when they grow. The hire has to work on a Saturday, not just in a Zoom.
If your last search produced a stack of PDFs and no one you would trust with the keys, let's reset the process.
Your growth team should exist before the second location does.
The groups that scale are not luckier. They hired the next GM — and the VP who owns the next five — six months early.
3SP builds that bench: retained search from C-level to store manager, plus finance, marketing, tech, people, development, purchasing, and facilities.
If you are a multi-unit operator staring at a second (or fifth) four-wall, send us a note. We will tell you honestly whether you have a people problem, a process problem, or both.
Not every great hospitality role is in a downtown.
Three searches that are not Boston or Miami:
• Managing Director, Baker House — Ithaca, NY · $225k
A true property-leader role. Rooms, F&B, people, P&L.
• Executive Chef & F&B Director, Dole's Orchard — Limington, ME · $130k
Destination orchard restaurant. Culinary + beverage in one leader.
• General Manager, Kilauea Lodge & Restaurant — Volcano, Hawai'i · $95k
Lodge + dining room. Beautiful, operationally real, not a vacation.
If you have been waiting for a restaurant that is also a life — these are live.
Not seeing your title? That is not a reason to stay quiet.
Most of the roles we fill never get a public post — C-level and president searches, plus a lot of GM, chef, kitchen, and corporate mandates.
Join the 3SP talent network — one form, 90 seconds, no cover letter. When a GM, chef, sous, kitchen manager, store manager, or executive role opens in your city, you hear from us first.
Link in bio. Tell us the role you want, not the one you will settle for.
Labor is not a mystery. Time-to-slate is a choice.
What we are seeing across client searches right now:
• President, VP, and director searches stay confidential for a reason. Budget 60–90 days if you want a builder, not a placeholder.
• GMs who can actually hold a P&L are still the longest public search. Budget 45–75 days.
• Executive chefs, sous, and kitchen managers fill faster when compensation is published. Hiding the number just slows the people you want.
• Restaurant and store managers for a growing brand are a different search than a one-off GM. Write the path, not just the four walls.
• South Florida AGM roles need bilingual leadership more often than JDs admit. Write it down.
• Controllers who understand restaurant accounting (not generic GAAP-only) are rarer than chefs. Pay them like it. Finance, people, tech, purchasing, and facilities hires are the same story — they are not "support," they are how unit five works.
3SP publishes compensation on every live public search. Candidates notice. So do the brands who are tired of 90-day ghosts.
Tomorrow's brands are built by the people you hire this quarter.
3SP — retained search, real estate, management development, project management, capital advisory.
C-level through store manager. Finance, marketing, tech, people, development, purchasing, facilities. The whole growth brand.
One team behind the brands who are done guessing.
Don Bailey, Founder & CEO
3sp.co
