Food & Beverage Resume Builder. Your resume made professional

Lead a food and beverage resume with the stations or positions you can hold on a busy service and the food safety training you already have. Name your stations (grill, sauté, pastry, expo), the service style (quick service, fine dining, catering, banquets) and the point-of-sale or inventory systems you've run.

Food handler rules vary: the BLS notes that some states and localities require cooks to have a food handler's certification, while many states don't, so check with your local health department. Line staff may list a food handler card or the ServSafe Food Handler course; managers may add the ServSafe Food Protection Manager Certification from the National Restaurant Association. Bartenders should show responsible-server training, which many states and localities require; some states, counties and cities mandate alcohol training for servers too. Put an expiration date beside each card or certificate.

Useful restaurant numbers include covers per shift, ticket times, check averages, food cost percentage, waste and health inspection results. Seasonal or short stints can be grouped by season or venue type. A sample bullet might read: "Kept ticket times under 12 minutes on the sauté station during 180-cover Friday services."

• How do I describe a server job on a resume?

  Use the title the restaurant gave you, whether that's server, waiter or food server, and name the kind of room you worked: casual, high-volume brunch or white tablecloth. Then write bullets a manager can picture. Give your section size in tables, the covers you carried on your busiest nights and one sales result you can stand behind, such as wine or dessert add-ons you grew. Name the point-of-sale system, any large parties or private events you ran, and a complaint you turned around. For a formal room, compare the Fine Dining Server examples.

• How do I put Starbucks barista on my resume?

  Write Barista as the title and Starbucks as the employer, with the store's city and your dates; a hiring manager already knows the brand. What they can't see is your store, so say whether it was a café, a drive-thru or both, and how heavy the peak got, such as a morning rush with mobile orders stacking up. Add drink accuracy, stock counts, or opening and closing duties you held. If you moved up to shift supervisor, the Barista Shift Supervisor examples show how to present leading a shift.

• How do I put a fast food job on my resume?

  Copy the job title from your schedule or pay stub, often crew member, team member or cashier, so it matches what a reference check will confirm. Put your stations in the first bullet: front counter, drive-thru, grill, fryer, and opening or closing shifts. If you're 14 or 15, the federal rules for non-farm jobs generally allow work outside school hours, up to 3 hours on a school day and 18 hours in a school week, between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. (9 p.m. from June 1 through Labor Day). Give availability that fits those limits, and check your state's rules too. Compare the Fast Food Worker examples as you write.

• How do I list restaurant promotions on a resume, from busser to shift manager?

  Keep one entry for the restaurant and put each title inside it with the month it began, so the promotions read as growth rather than job changes. Then let the bullets change with the job. Busser: how fast you reset tables and kept the floor stocked. Assistant Waiter: running food, menu knowledge and sidework. Fine Dining Server: your own section and its sales. Captain Waiter: leading a station's team and rescuing a guest's night when something goes wrong. Restaurant Shift Manager: opening or closing, the floor plan, staffing and the cash count. Two or three bullets per step is plenty.