Catering manager : Salary and conditions

Salaries for trainee catering manager roles range from £15,000 to £21,000.
Salaries for experience catering managers range from £25,000 to £40,000.
Salaries vary depending on a range of factors, including type and size of organisation, job sector and region.
Working in the hospitality industry often involves shift work with long and unsocial hours, including evenings and weekends. In hospitality service operations within business, industry and institutions, managers are more likely to work normal office hours.
In larger organisations, the work tends to be office based, though catering managers may be expected to spend some time working within busy restaurants and kitchens.
Catering managers may be responsible for the catering of one site only. Others may have overall responsibility for a number of sites (that have to be visited on a regular basis) and a number of assistant managers working under them.
Job opportunities are available throughout the UK.
The role is physically demanding and the pressures of providing a consistently good service can cause stress. Catering for events can be particularly stressful.
Travel within a working day can be a regular feature, but absence from home at night or overseas work/travel is rare.

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Date:

March 2011