You’re extroverted and organized. You love people and good food. Maybe you’ve even had experience as a bartender or cook and you’re looking to move up to the next level. You might have met your match in food service managing. There are certainly some options across the field of restaurant managing where you can find a challenging, satisfying career.

Generally, restaurant managers to make about $50,000 a year for about 50 hours of work a week. Their responsibilities are varied, but they include things like:

• Interviewing and hiring staff
• Ordering food and beverage and maintaining inventory
• Monitoring health and food safety standards, as well as the personal safety of the staff
• Setting sales goals and budgets an keeping payroll records
• Establishing standards for staff and maintaining high levels of customer service

There are so many different kinds of restaurants a person can work as a manager. While each generally has the same basic needs – sell good food and serve customers with excellence – they often all have a different vibe and criteria.

Hotel Restaurant

These kinds of restaurants are usually upscale and require a lot of attention to detail. General restaurant managers usually have a great team of highly trained servers, an executive chef, and report to the general manager of the hotel.

Catering Business

Some catering companies have multiple locations requiring managers to help delegate work and manage business, while some are privately owned by a chef and just need one manager to help with training, payroll, and scheduling. This kind of management can be high energy and truly different day to day – a small party for 10 one day and a wedding for 100 the next requires different preparation and organizational skills.

Nightclub

This kind of manager might find themselves as a jack of all trades – in addition to working with budgets and staff schedules, they might also network with customers during peak hours, help behind the bar during happy hour, write up food and drink promotions, and even work their own social media depending on the size and budget of the club.

Restaurant management is for all kinds of people – foodies, business types – but no matter who chooses to go for it, they should definitely be hardworking, creative, and inspired.