Restaurant Management

Restaurant management is the profession of managing a restaurant. The profession consists of administration responsibilities, front-of-the-house management, and back-of the-house management. Although a form of restaurant management has existed since the creation of the first restaurants, the practices and responsibilities of restaurant management have become standardized over the past two and a half centuries. To learn the necessary skills to manage a restaurant, college and universities in the United States offer training programs at the associate, bachelor, and graduate level. Specific restaurant chains mandate that their employees attend chain-specific programs, whereas other restaurant managers have no formal training and have learned the skills while working in other restaurant positions such as waiters and hostesses. Despite the disparities among restaurants in their expectations of restaurant management, ...