Restaurants job descriptions
Every role a $20M business in this industry hires for: 25 Role Blueprints, from leadership to the front line. Open any role for its full template and a free Word file.
Leadership 6
Chief Executive Officer
A restaurant group CEO decides which concepts the group runs, where the next restaurant opens and how it gets paid for.
Chief Operating Officer
A restaurant group COO writes the playbook, labor model, buying contracts and opening plans that every restaurant runs on.
Chief Financial Officer
A restaurant group CFO turns each night's POS sales, payroll and food invoices into budgets, cash plans and a P&L for every restaurant.
General Manager
A restaurant general manager runs one full-service restaurant and owns what happens there: sales, labor, cash, guest reviews, and every health and liquor inspection.
Culinary Director
A restaurant culinary director owns the food across a restaurant group: the menus, recipes, plating specs, food costs and the executive chefs who cook them.
Director of Operations
A restaurant director of operations leads the GMs of a group's restaurants and spends most days inside them.
Managers 8
Assistant General Manager
A restaurant assistant general manager runs the front of the house under the GM: the schedule for servers, hosts, bussers and runners, their hiring and training, and the floor managers.
Bar Manager
A restaurant bar manager runs the bar at one location.
Catering and Events Manager
A restaurant group's catering and events manager sells and runs private dining, buyouts and off-site catering for all of its restaurants.
Executive Chef
A restaurant executive chef runs one kitchen in a restaurant group, cooking the group's menu to spec and leading the sous chef, cooks and dishwashers.
Floor Manager
A restaurant floor manager runs one shift in a full-service restaurant.
HR Manager
A restaurant group HR manager keeps hiring moving for six to eight restaurants that lose hourly staff all year, and handles the paperwork, card tracking and policies that come with it.
Marketing Manager
A restaurant group marketing manager fills seats on the nights that need it, using social media, email, online listings and promotions for each concept.
Sous Chef
A restaurant sous chef runs the line during service, calling tickets at the pass with the expeditor and jumping on any station that falls behind.
Office and sales 1
Bookkeeper
A restaurant bookkeeper matches each restaurant's daily POS sales to cash deposits, card batches and delivery app payouts, then enters and pays the food and beverage invoices.
Frontline team 10
Barback
A restaurant barback keeps the bar stocked through service: ice, glassware, beer, wine, spirits, kegs and garnishes, so bartenders never have to leave their guests or the service bar.
Bartender
A restaurant bartender makes drinks for guests at the bar and for servers' tables through the service bar.
Busser
A restaurant busser clears and resets tables, keeps water and bread coming, and stocks the side stations so servers can stay with their guests.
Dishwasher
A restaurant dishwasher keeps clean plates, glasses, pots and pans flowing back to the line and the dining room during service.
Expeditor
A restaurant expeditor runs the pass between the kitchen and the dining room, calling tickets to the cooks and checking every plate before it leaves.
Food Runner
A restaurant food runner takes finished plates from the pass to the right seats while the food is still hot, checking each one against the ticket before leaving the kitchen.
Host
A restaurant host runs the front door: greeting guests, managing reservations and the waitlist, and seating each party in the right server's section.
Line Cook
A restaurant line cook works one station on the line, such as grill, sauté, fry or garde manger, and cooks each ticket to the recipe and the picture of the plate.
Prep Cook
A restaurant prep cook gets the kitchen ready before the line cooks arrive, working down the day's prep list: cutting produce, portioning proteins, making sauces and stocks, and labeling every container.
Server
A restaurant server looks after a section of tables from greeting to payment.
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