Food Service Managers

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F and B Manager (Food and Beverage Manager), Food Service Director, Food Service Manager, Restaurant Manager

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What they do:
Plan, direct, or coordinate activities of an organization or department that serves food and beverages.
On the job, you would:
  • Count money and make bank deposits.
  • Establish standards for personnel performance and customer service.
  • Keep records required by government agencies regarding sanitation or food subsidies.

Knowledge

Business

  • customer service
  • management

Manufactured or Agricultural Goods

  • food production
  • manufacture and distribution of products

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Math and Science

  • arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics

Skills

Basic Skills

  • keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements
  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions

Social

  • changing what is done based on other people's actions
  • looking for ways to help people

Resource Management

  • selecting and managing the best workers for a job
  • managing your time and the time of other people

Abilities

Verbal

  • communicate by speaking
  • listen and understand what people say

Ideas and Logic

  • notice when problems happen
  • use rules to solve problems

Attention

  • pay attention to something without being distracted

Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.

They do well at jobs that need:

  • Leadership Orientation
  • Stress Tolerance
  • Social Orientation
  • Cooperation
  • Attention to Detail
  • Dependability

Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Word processing software

  • Google Docs Hot Technology
  • Microsoft Word Hot Technology

Point of sale POS software

  • ClubSoft Food & Beverage Point of Sale
  • Restaurant Manager

Analytical or scientific software

  • Aurora FoodPro
  • SweetWARE nutraCoster

Education

Education: (rated 2 of 5)
high school diploma/GED or
certificate after high school
usually needed

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