Considering careers - Restaurant Manager and Agent or Business manager.

Career Report

Drake Zollers

        For my first career I chose was a Restaurant Manager. This job mainly consists of hiring staff that you think are capable of working at the level you expect out of them and to keep a good word for your restaurant. It also over sees what is on the menu, and to make any changes at any time, for instance if there are a lot of complaints about an item you might take it off the menu or compliments you might put it on a specials list. You also need to make sure the restaurant is fully stocked to how much inventory you think will be served in that day or few days. Then the manager needs to make sure the building is clean and presentable to draw in customers and hopefully keep them coming back. Wages throughout Illinois range from $15.95-$27.59 hourly which comes out to be $33,170-$57,380 yearly, but for our area which I chose the DeKalb-Elgin-Aurora area and hourly it goes from $17.22-$35.92 and yearly that comes out to be $35,826-$74,709. This to me looks like a good region in Illinois to open up a restaurant and possibly be pretty successful. Preparation for this title is not all that difficult, you need some schooling in business, food & nutrition, and most have at least a bachelor’s degree. But most of the time you get promoted to this position by being employed by a restaurant for some time and go through all the proper training that is needed to be successful. A few reasons I think I could proceed to becoming this title of restaurant manager is because one day I would like to open and run my own restaurant and this would be good experience till I got to the point in my life to where I feel comfortable in taking the risk that the food industry has. I also work right now as a server and I like the feeling of knowing I satisfied a customer with good service and food.