One of the most exciting and rewarding career paths one can choose is that of the restaurant manager. The restaurant manager job description and responsibilities include everything from managing supplies such as food, beverages, glassware, dishes, and silverware, to hiring, training, and coaching a wait staff, to making sure the kitchen is operating efficiently and serving high quality food.
The restaurant manager does not have to be an expert chef or food critic to manage a kitchen. They just need to understand how a kitchen should run and how it should produce fresh quality food. To run the entire restaurant efficiently, the manager will need to empower his head chef to run the kitchen and manage his staff. If the restaurant manager gets stuck spending all his time babysitting the kitchen, other areas of the restaurant may start to fall apart.
It is important for a good restaurant manager to handle customer service breaks quickly before they turn into an extremely unhappy customer. People rarely speak of good experiences at stores and restaurants, but they cannot wait to tell all their friends and family about bad experiences. It is easy to accept praise and compliments, but a good manager, although it may be uncomfortable, will get in front of unhappy customers immediately and do what they can to turn their dining experience around.
If the thoughts of dealing with customers and employees, working 60+ hours a week, and constantly being on the go make you queasy, then being a restaurant manager is probably not for you.
