Banquet Chef: Plans and cooks food for large events in hotels, convention centers, and catering companies. Typical pay $60k.
Catering Sales Manager: Sells catering and banquet events and plans the details with clients. Typical pay $62k.
Ghost Kitchen Operator: Runs a delivery-only kitchen that cooks for several online restaurant brands at once. Typical pay $55k.
Commissary Kitchen Manager: Runs a central kitchen that preps food for multiple restaurants, trucks, or cafes. Typical pay $62k.
Food Truck Owner: Owns and runs a food truck business, often as a first step to a restaurant. Typical pay $55k.
Meal-Prep Business Owner: Runs a business cooking and delivering weekly healthy meals to customers. Typical pay $60k.
Catering Company Owner: Owns a catering business that serves weddings, corporate events, and parties. Typical pay $90k.
Stadium Concessions Manager: Runs food stands at a stadium or arena, serving thousands of fans in a few hours. Typical pay $60k.
Mobile Bar Business Owner: Runs a bar-on-wheels, like a converted horse trailer, that serves drinks at weddings and events. Typical pay $60k.
Food Truck Builder: Turns empty trucks, vans and trailers into rolling commercial kitchens, building the walls, steel counters, gas lines and vents to pass health and fire codes. Typical pay $55k.
Private Jet Caterer: Cooks and packs restaurant-quality meals for private jets, timing every order to a flight departure and packing it so it can be reheated in a tiny galley. Typical pay $58k.
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Banquet Server: Serves food and drinks at weddings, conferences, and galas. Typical pay $34k.
Stadium Concessions Worker: Sells and serves food at stadiums, arenas, concerts, and fairs. Typical pay $30k.
Food Truck Cook: Cooks and serves food from a truck at street corners, breweries, and festivals. Typical pay $35k.
Craft Services Provider: Keeps film and TV crews fed with snacks, coffee, and meals all day on set. Typical pay $45k.
Wildfire Camp Cook: Works in mobile kitchen trailers feeding thousands of firefighters at wildfire base camps. Typical pay $42k.
Banquet Captain: Leads the service team at banquets and catered events, making sure everything runs on time. Typical pay $45k.
Catering Delivery Driver: Delivers catered food to offices and events and sets up the buffet. Typical pay $38k.
Ice Cream Truck Operator: Drives a musical ice cream truck through neighborhoods, parks and events, selling frozen treats and booking parties. Typical pay $30k.
Clambake Caterer: Cooks traditional New England clambakes on beaches and lawns by steaming lobsters, clams, corn and potatoes over hot rocks under wet seaweed. Typical pay $40k.
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