competency in skills and knowledge through assessment tests,
but are not required to complete a specific number of hours.
Restaurant Manager
National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (NRAEF)
Work Process Content
On the Job Training
                                  
  
    
      
        Level 1 -  Restaurant Professional - Front of the House Knowledge / Service Culture
      
      
    
    
      
        
      
        
          8
        
      
      
        
          330
        
      
      
    
  
      - Meets customer needs
 - Communicates effectively with customers
 - Demonstrates personal skills that contribute to quality customer service
 - Handles customer complaints and carry out service recovery
 - Understand the importance of product knowledge in service
 - Describe quality customer service
 - Identify styles of service
 - Demonstrate skills and processes related to service activities
 
  
    
      
        Level 1 -  Restaurant Professional - Back of the House / Restaurant Kitchen Knowledge
      
      
    
    
      
        
      
        
          4
        
      
      
        
          300
        
      
      
    
  
      - Identifies kitchen equipment and kitchen roles
 - Understand the role of product knowledge in food preparation
 - Describe inventory control methods
 - Identify production and presentation methods
 
  
    
      
        Level 1 -  Restaurant Professional - Product Quality and Cost Control
      
      
    
    
      
        
      
        
          2
        
      
      
        
          210
        
      
      
    
  
      - Identifies methods to maintain product quality
 - Describe cost control and profitability
 
  
    
      
        Level 1 -  Restaurant Professional - Branding and Marketing
      
      
    
    
      
        
      
        
          2
        
      
      
        
          160
        
      
      
    
  
      - Describe branding
 - Identify skill necessary to use the brand effectively
 
  
    
      
        Level 1 -  Restaurant Professional - Food Safety and Sanitation
      
      
    
    
      
        
      
        
          7
        
      
      
        
          4
        
      
      
    
  
      - Define foodborne illness and explain the costs associated with a foodborne-illness outbreak.
 - Recognize the importance of good personal hygiene, and describe behaviors associated with it such as handwashing, reportable illnesses, etc.
 - Define time and temperature control, and describe actions necessary to provide safe food, such as safe food storage, correct cooking temperatures, correct cooling, and the use of thermometers.
 - Define cross-contamination, and describe ways to prevent it.
 - Identify biological, chemical, and physical hazards throughout the flow of food.
 - Explain correct cleaning and sanitizing, including how, where, and when it should be done.
 - Recognize food safety risks associated with high-risk populations including young children, elderly people, and people with compromised immune systems.
 
  
    
      
        Level 2 – Restaurant Supervisor - Fundamentals of Managing Daily Restaurant Operations
      
      
    
    
      
        
      
        
          5
        
      
      
        
          270
        
      
      
    
  
      - Works shift standards
 - Describe service recovery
 - Understand the importance of work schedules
 - Market the positive customer experience
 - Describe salesmanship
 
  
    
      
        Level 2 – Restaurant Supervisor - Fundamentals of Restaurant Leadership
      
      
    
    
      
        
      
        
          3
        
      
      
        
          300
        
      
      
    
  
      - Understands the dynamics of leadership
 - Describe effective communication
 - Manage and facilitate teamwork
 
  
    
      
        Level 2 – Restaurant Supervisor - Monitoring and Controlling Resources
      
      
    
    
      
        
      
        
          6
        
      
      
        
          280
        
      
      
    
  
      - Understands the Importance of cost control
 - Control food costs in purchasing, receiving, storing, and issuing
 - Control food costs and quality during production, sales, and service
 - Control labor
 - Protect revenue
 - Describe purchase quantity requirements
 
  
    
      
        Level 2 – Restaurant Supervisor - Maintaining a lawful, safe, and healthy workplace
      
      
    
    
      
        
      
        
          2
        
      
      
        
          140
        
      
      
    
  
      - Maintain a lawful workplace
 - Manage a safe and healthy workplace
 
  
    
      
        Level 2 – Restaurant Supervisor - Food Safety Management
      
      
    
    
      
        
      
        
          11
        
      
      
        
          8
        
      
      
    
  
      - Understand the food safety responsibilities of the person in charge of the operation as recommended by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for regulatory monitoring
 - Understand the concepts of active managerial control and the methods for achieving it
 - Explain the FDA's public health interventions
 - Understand the seven HACCP principles for preventing foodborne illness and how to implement a HACCP plan when applicable
 - Explain how to prepare for, respond to, and recover from a crisis, including a foodborne-illness outbreak
 - Describe how to respond to imminent health hazards including power outages, fire, flood, water interruption, and sewage
 - Explain procedures on to how to handle requests from customers with food allergies, sensitivities, and intolerances
 - Identify when food handlers should be prevented from working with or around food or from working in the operation
 - Recognize the need for food defense systems
 - Have knowledge of the five CDC risk factors that cause foodborne illness and procedures to prevent them
 - Outline correct procedures for managing pests
 
  
    
      
        Level Three – Restaurant Manager - Financial Management
      
      
    
    
      
        
      
        
          6
        
      
      
        
          400
        
      
      
    
  
      - Explains the basics of accounting and finance
 - Plan the profitable restaurant
 - Identify the components of the Income statements (P&Ls)
 - Forecast and budget
 - Describe Profitable pricing
 - Assess actual financial performance
 
  
    
      
        Level Three – Restaurant Manager - Purchasing and Cost Control
      
      
    
    
      
        
      
        
          8
        
      
      
        
          380
        
      
      
    
  
      - Describes restaurant purchasing and quality requirements
 - Select vendors
 - Order products: Pricing decisions and procedures
 - Purchase follow-up
 - Calculate the various types of food and beverage costs
 - Control food and beverage cost
 - Control labor
 - Protect revenue
 
  
    
      
        Level Three – Restaurant Manager - Staffing
      
      
    
    
      
        
      
        
          6
        
      
      
        
          440
        
      
      
    
  
      - Recruits and selects the best employees
 - Explain the fundamentals of the employee orientation and training programs
 - Facilitate effective employee performance
 - Develop succession plans
 - Manage compensation programs
 - Describe employee retention and terminations procedures
 
  
    
      
        Level Three – Restaurant Manager - Leadership Strategy
      
      
    
    
      
        
      
        
          3
        
      
      
        
          380
        
      
      
    
  
      - Manages meetings
 - Describe time management
 - Facilitate the planning process
 
  
    
      
        Level Three – Restaurant Manager - Managing Safety and Regulations
      
      
    
    
      
        
      
        
          1
        
      
      
        
          160
        
      
      
    
  
      - Ensures a Safe and Lawful Workplace • Present an overview of laws that impact restaurant and foodservice operations (including laws on sanitation, harassment, health care, workplace safety, and payroll) • Review state and federal employment laws that affect operations (EEOC, OSHA, FLSA, minimum wage, and overtime, etc.) • Provide an overview of what managers can do to maintain a zero-tolerance sexual harassment policy • Discuss nonsexual types of harassment in the workplace (pregnancy discrimination act, FMLA, ADA, etc.)
 
  
    
      
        Level Three – Restaurant Manager - Restaurant Marketing
      
      
    
    
      
        
      
        
          9
        
      
      
        
          240
        
      
      
    
  
      - Describes the marketing process in restaurants
 - Understand the market environment
 - Market the positive customer service experience
 - Obtain customer feedback
 - Identify communication channels
 - Describe the use of advertising and sales
 - Explain sales promotions, publicity, and public relations
 - Describe menu marketing principles and labeling requirements
 - Market beverage products responsibly
 
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