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Also called banquet manager, cafeteria manager, catering manager and certified dietary manager.
$69,390
Median pay a year
238,430
People do this work
6
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Food Service Manager
Summary
Food service manager planning and coordinating food and beverage activities, keeping records for sanitation and food subsidies, resolving complaints, maintaining inventories, and monitoring budgets and payroll
Experience
Food Service Manager
Where you worked
Month Year to Month Year
Kept records for government agencies about sanitation and food subsidies
Investigated and resolved complaints about food quality and service
Maintained food and equipment inventories, and kept inventory records
Performed food preparation tasks like cooking and serving food when needed
Monitored budgets and payroll records to ensure authorized spending
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Counted money and made depositsSet standards for staff and serviceKept records for health and safetyScheduled staff hours and tasksHandled complaints about food and serviceChecked food deliveries for quality
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Counted cash and made bank deposits, ensuring accurate financial records.
Maintained detailed health and safety records to comply with regulations.
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Counted cash and made bank deposits daily at the end of each shift, ensuring accurate financial records
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Daily at the end of each shiftSeveral times a weekEvery day during busy periods
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Maintained detailed health and safety records to comply with regulations.
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Evaluating material quality
Analyzing data
Maintaining operational records
Managing guest services
Monitoring organizational procedures
Monitoring individual activities
Monitoring compliance
Evaluating employee performance
Determining resource needs
Estimating material requirements
Creating new recipes
Planning menu options
The work itself
What a Food Service Manager does
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Plan, direct, or coordinate activities of an organization or department that serves food and beverages.
What it pays
How much does a Food Service Manager make?
Annual pay across the United States. The middle figure is the median: half earn less than that, and half earn more.
25th percentile
$56,870
Median
$69,390
75th percentile
$86,800
About 238,430 people do this work in the United States.
What it pays in each state
State
25th percentile
Median
75th percentile
AK
$63,390
$82,030
$105,530
AL
$57,080
$63,010
$79,000
AR
$45,590
$55,120
$63,160
AZ
$60,500
$70,180
$85,770
CA
$60,040
$78,260
$100,190
CO
$68,750
$79,870
$99,480
CT
$62,400
$77,990
$92,100
DC
$74,250
$81,680
$105,760
DE
$65,560
$74,430
$80,990
FL
$59,010
$72,790
$91,480
GA
$55,240
$65,280
$79,730
HI
$61,660
$87,800
$104,570
IA
$52,850
$66,700
$77,860
ID
$55,000
$70,140
$92,630
IL
$52,250
$63,930
$79,850
IN
$55,640
$71,430
$88,020
KS
$56,260
$70,320
$86,190
KY
$58,890
$70,410
$81,440
LA
$46,960
$61,400
$77,990
MA
$73,430
$92,240
$102,920
MD
$61,430
$72,850
$82,280
ME
$54,010
$70,510
$78,140
MI
$51,450
$60,790
$75,740
MN
$64,320
$79,820
$95,190
MO
$60,010
$65,520
$79,020
MS
$47,110
$59,540
$71,650
MT
$59,460
$72,140
$95,720
NC
$59,790
$74,080
$91,080
ND
$50,210
$72,210
$88,110
NE
$57,050
$60,450
$70,300
NH
$67,640
$77,360
$93,550
NJ
$62,810
$78,020
$101,070
NM
$58,240
$65,210
$93,620
NV
$60,640
$65,320
$81,720
NY
$72,420
$84,200
$104,800
OH
$54,990
$62,980
$76,400
OK
$55,120
$63,840
$90,230
OR
$54,990
$62,110
$77,210
PA
$55,690
$64,750
$78,220
PR
$37,690
$42,230
$59,740
RI
$63,470
$82,850
$95,260
SC
$54,910
$66,190
$83,830
SD
$56,920
$60,640
$73,210
TN
$57,200
$64,410
$80,060
TX
$48,750
$60,770
$75,800
UT
$56,700
$69,480
$93,000
VA
$60,610
$71,230
$83,110
VT
$64,850
$77,910
$98,940
WA
$79,410
$95,190
$111,050
WI
$48,260
$61,810
$79,270
WV
$46,140
$54,800
$64,320
WY
$48,690
$62,610
$76,150
Other names
Other names for this job
banquet manager, cafeteria manager, catering manager, certified dietary manager, CDM, chef manager, cook manager, deli manager, dietary manager, dining room manager, F and B manager, fast food services manager.
More names for this work
flight kitchen manager, foh manager, food and beverage manager, food general manager, food production manager, food service general manager, front of house manager, general manager, GM, hospitality manager, kitchen manager, liquor establishment manager, restaurant general manager, restaurant manager, shift manager, banquet director, cafe operator, cafeteria director, cafeteria operator, catering coordinator, catering director, certified food protection professional, CFPP, concessionaire, dietary supervisor, dining service director, F and B director, food and beverage director, food gm, food service director, food service gm, food service specialist, food service supervisor, luncheonette operator, lunchroom operator, menu planner, restaurant gm, restaurateur, saloon keeper, tavern keeper, tavern operator.
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Military jobs this work counts as
From the crosswalk the US Department of Labor publishes itself. If one of these was your job, this page is about the civilian work it maps to.
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This page is about the occupation Food Service Managers. What this job involves and what it is made of come from O*NET 30.3, the US Department of Labor's occupation database, refreshed July 2026; Rung writes those records into the plain sentences you see. Pay comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS release for 2025. Rung is an independent service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by either agency. How Rung handles accuracy is on the accuracy page, and the full data credits are on the credits page.