Sample Restaurant Manager Resume

Make sure your restaurant and hospitality resume serves up a full menu of your skills and accomplishments in food service. This sample shows you how.

By Jamie Thork

Restaurant manager jobs require you to multitask in order for the food to go from the suppliers to the kitchen to the plate and ultimately to your guests, day after day and night after night. Does your restaurant manager resume serve up a full menu of your skills and accomplishments in food service?

Start with a mouth-watering appetizer in your career summary or resume objective. Your restaurant manager resume objective needs to outline your experience, your strengths, and why you're the right candidate for the job. You may want to include information about your ability to lead a team, for example, or your ability to turn a profit.

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Restaurant Manager Resume

Brandon Yu
Denver, CO 00000 | LinkedIn URL
(555) 555-5555 | brandon.yu@email.com

Restaurant Manager

Profit-driven restaurant manager with multi-outlet experience; proven success leading startup, turnaround and high-growth operations; and strengths in building cohesive, top-performing and customer-centric teams. High-energy F&B professional with a history of achieving record-setting P&L gains.

Experience

Company One, Denver, CO

Restaurant General Manager, XX/20XX to Present
Assistant Restaurant Manager, XX/20XX to XX/20XX

Lead Server & Trainer, XX/20XX to XX/20XX
Restaurant Server, XX/20XX to XX/20XX

Earned repeated promotions, managing F&B outlets, functions and teams within luxury boutique hotel and resort. Presently manage P&L and front- and back-of-house operations for hotel’s fine dining steakhouse, family-style casual restaurant, poolside spa café and room service operations. Oversee quality controls; budget management; safety compliance; and the recruitment and performance of 125 restaurant team members.

Key Accomplishments:

  • Rebranded image of fine-dining restaurant to reverse a 5-year sales downturn. Worked with executive chef to devise new menu and revamped marketing strategy, triggering 55% sales growth, rave media reviews and a 200% increase in repeat business by local (non-hotel) guests.
  • Established mandatory customer service training program for all customer-facing employees. Boosted guest satisfaction scores from 89% to 95% within 6 months of program launch.
  • Improved efficiency, sequence of service, order expediting and table-turn times in all dining outlets to achieve a 19% gain in daily covers served with zero additional labor or overhead costs.
  • Increased employee satisfaction by 23% while cutting staff turnover in half by developing staff recognition and accountability programs.
  • Turned around unprofitable room service operations. Streamlined lunch and dinner options while adding “order-ahead” express breakfasts and late-night fare to increase margins by 7%.
  • Partnered with bartenders to create and introduce signature cocktails and gourmet appetizer menu that doubled bar revenues within 2 months.
  • Reduced food costs 8% after identifying and eliminating inventory issues such as excess ordering, poor storage and inefficient waste management.
  • Collaborated with hotel GM and corporate representatives to plan and execute major kitchen renovation, installing new, modern equipment that increased efficiency by 18%.

Education

University One, Denver, CO
Bachelor of Science in Restaurant Management

Professional Development: Dining Room Management · Sanitation and Safety · ServSafe Food Protection Manager Certification · Quantity Food Purchasing · Hospitality Law

Affiliations: Restaurant Facility Management Association · Colorado Restaurant Association

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Jobs for restaurant managers are projected to grow by 15% over the next decade, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). That’s much higher than the average for all professions.

As a restaurant manager, you can expect to earn a median wage of $42,426 per year, according to Monster data. Look up what restaurant managers make in your city by using Monster’s Salary Tool.

Once you’re ready to apply to jobs, check out all the open restaurant manager jobs on Monster. Or, you can look at the open jobs in these areas where there’s always demand for restaurant managers:

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