Join the Dolan family
Help us share a culture, one table at a time.
Dolan Uyghur Restaurant is a family-run group of five dining rooms across Washington, DC, Virginia and Maryland, plus Dolan Coffee in Cleveland Park and our own central kitchen. Since September 2018 we have grown by teaching people who love hospitality how to cook and serve Uyghur food — and by treating the team the way we treat our guests. Dolan is looking for responsible, hardworking, friendly, and team-oriented people. If that is you, we would like to meet you.
Open positions
Open positions
Dolan is looking for responsible, hardworking, friendly, and team-oriented people.
All positions are open at our five restaurants — Washington, DC, Chantilly, Falls Church, Rockville and Arlington. Choose your preferred location when you apply.
Restaurant Manager
Lead one of our dining rooms end to end — the team, the guest experience, the numbers — and set the tone of Uyghur hospitality every service.
ManagementFull or part time · All five restaurantsKitchen Manager
Run the kitchen: ordering, prep schedules, quality and consistency of every hand-pulled noodle and kebab, and the training of the cooks who make them.
ManagementFull or part time · All five restaurantsFront of House Manager
Own the floor — hosts, servers and bussers — so that reservations flow, first-timers are guided through the menu and every table leaves with a story.
ManagementFull or part time · All five restaurantsCook
Work the line, the tandoor and the wok: laghman, Big Plate Chicken, samsa, manta and kebabs. We teach the Uyghur dishes; you bring the discipline.
KitchenFull or part time · All five restaurantsPrep Staff
Start the day the Uyghur way — pulling noodle dough, folding manta, marinating lamb and prepping vegetables so the line is ready for service.
KitchenFull or part time · All five restaurantsServer
Welcome guests, pour the tea first, recommend with confidence and keep the table happy from samsa to baklava.
Front of houseFull or part time · All five restaurantsHost
Be the first face of Dolan: greet, seat, manage reservations and waitlists, and make the wait feel like part of the welcome.
Front of houseFull or part time · All five restaurantsBusser
Keep the dining room moving — clearing, resetting and supporting servers so every guest sits down to a clean, ready table.
Front of houseFull or part time · All five restaurantsDishwasher
Keep the kitchen's backbone strong: clean dishes, pots and tools, a tidy station and a team that can count on you.
KitchenFull or part time · All five restaurants
Don't see your role? Tell us what you do well — we are always meeting people.
Why work at Dolan
Why work at Dolan
Six things our team would tell you before you apply.
Family-run, and it shows.
Our founder, Hamid Kerim, still walks the dining rooms and greets tables. Decisions are made by people you will meet, not a head office.
A growing group.
Five restaurants — Washington, DC (2018), Chantilly (2021), Falls Church (2024), Rockville (2025) and Arlington (2026) — plus Dolan Coffee and a central production kitchen that bakes for all of them and for Dolan Wholesale. Growth creates room to move between roles and locations.
A hospitality culture.
Uyghur hospitality means tea before anything else and a table that always has room for one more. We hire for warmth first and teach the rest.
Training in Uyghur cuisine.
Most of our team had never cooked Uyghur food before joining. We teach it — hand-pulled laghman, tandoor kebabs, samsa and manta, Gül Chai service — the way our founder learned it himself in 2018.
A team from everywhere.
Dolan has been built by immigrants from around the world working alongside Uyghur newcomers to the United States, including people finishing school or starting over in a new country. You will hear several languages in our kitchens; English is the one we share with guests.
Work with meaning.
Every shift introduces guests to a culture most of them have never encountered. Our team is part of that story.
Application
Apply to Dolan
Tell us a little about yourself and attach your resume. We read every application and reply to everyone we would like to meet.
Preferred location. Choose one of the five restaurants or Dolan Coffee; pick “Any location” if you are flexible.
Resume. PDF only, up to 5 MB, not password-protected. Stored privately and used only for hiring.
Equal opportunity. Dolan Uyghur Restaurant is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of every background, nationality, religion, gender, age, ability and orientation, and we make hiring decisions on qualifications, character and the way you treat people. Many of us came to this country as newcomers; everyone is welcome at our table.