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Restaurant Regional Manager
Food ServiceYou oversee 5-15 restaurant locations, which means you spend your life in a car driving between stores, reading P&L statements, and having the same conversation about food costs with every general manager. When a location is thriving, you take credit. When it's failing, you're the one corporate calls at 6 AM. The salary is real, but so is the ulcer.
Salary Range
Low
$65k
Median
$85k
High
$140k
10-Year Growth
5%
US Workers
55K
Education
Bachelor's degree preferred (extensive restaurant management experience required)
Environment
indoor
Tools & Technical Skills
- ▸Multi-unit P&L management
- ▸Financial reporting & budgeting
- ▸Operations auditing & compliance
- ▸General manager recruitment & development
- ▸Strategic planning & market analysis
- ▸Corporate reporting & KPI tracking
- ▸Vendor contract negotiation
People & Mindset Skills
- ▸Leadership
- ▸Strategic thinking
- ▸Communication
- ▸Coaching & mentoring
- ▸Decision-making
- ▸Analytical thinking
- ▸Stress tolerance
Learn the skills
Courses and certifications to get you job-ready
Multi-unit P&L management
What you'll actually do
- 01Visit 2-3 locations per day and pretend you didn't notice the walk-in is a mess
- 02Review P&L statements for each location and ask uncomfortable questions about food costs
- 03Coach general managers who are either burned out, new, or both
- 04Handle escalated customer complaints that made it past the store level
- 05Lead quarterly business reviews with senior leadership and present your numbers
- 06Recruit and develop general managers — the hardest hire in the restaurant industry
- 07Drive 300 miles a week and expense gas station coffee as a 'business meal'
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