Also called: Restaurant Owner, Restaurant Group Founder
Founds and owns restaurants, creating concepts and building teams to run them.
You dream up a concept, raise money, choose the location and designer, and hire the chef. Once it opens, you are the host, the brand, and the boss. Successful restaurateurs build groups of restaurants and sometimes national brands.
Many owners earn little in early years; owners of successful groups earn far more.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
No formal education, about 0 years after high school. No required degree; experience and capital are what matter.
Ways in: On-the-job training, Self-taught, 4-year college. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Majors to look at: Hospitality Management, Business Administration, Entrepreneurship.
Growing faster than average.
Low risk for 10 years. AI helps with costing, marketing and reviews; concepts, teams and hospitality stay human.
Classes: Business, Culinary arts CTE, Accounting.
Official data: O*NET occupation 11-1021.
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