Hospitality CV guide

CV optimisation for Restaurant Managers

Build a stronger Restaurant Manager CV by making your evidence of profitable service and memorable guest experience easy for recruiters and applicant tracking systems to find.

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What a strong Restaurant Manager CV needs to prove

Show outcomes, not a task list

Connect your actions to a measurable result: time, quality, revenue, cost, safety, service or risk. Add scale so the reader can judge the significance.

Make your evidence easy to verify

Keep employers, titles and dates accurate. Use direct language and include only skills you can support with genuine experience.

ATS keywords for a Restaurant Manager CV

Use relevant terms naturally where they describe your real work. Mirror the job advert's wording, but do not add a skill you cannot evidence.

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Common Restaurant Manager CV mistakes

  1. Omitting covers, team size and commercial responsibility.
  2. Using customer-service claims without feedback evidence.
  3. Failing to show control of labour and stock costs.
  4. Sending the same generic summary to every employer instead of reflecting the vacancy's genuine priorities.

Worked example: strengthen one bullet

Evidence-led versionLed a 28-person team across a 160-cover venue, improving guest scores from 4.1 to 4.6 while reducing labour cost by 2 percentage points.

Use the structure, not the facts. Replace every detail with evidence from your own experience.

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