Restaurant Management
Restaurant management is a high-velocity field where margins are tight, labor is complex, guest expectations are immediate, and technology continues to reshape demand. This 100-hour program prepares learners to manage daily restaurant operations using practical tools for profitability, guest experience, people leadership, compliance, and data-driven decision-making.
Learners develop real-world deliverables, like menu cost and pricing artifacts, inventory systems, service standards, hiring and...
Learning method
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Restaurant Management
Details + Objectives
Course code: GES625
What you will learn
- Run efficient day-to-day restaurant operations and track performance metrics/KPIs
- Build profitable menus and control food, beverage, and labor costs using practical systems
- Lead teams through structured hiring, onboarding, training, and performance processes
- Maintain compliance with food safety systems and regulatory requirements (HACCP-based readiness)
- Use POS, digital platforms, and analytics to improve decisions, forecasting, and competitiveness
How you will benefit
- Qualify for restaurant leadership roles by demonstrating complete, job-aligned management capability across operations, people, and profit
- Make smarter decisions faster using KPI tracking and practical control systems—reducing waste, improving consistency, and protecting margins
- Strengthen hiring and training systems to reduce turnover, improve team performance, and increase service reliability
- Improve guest satisfaction and loyalty through service standards, service recovery methods, and reputation management tools
- Graduate with a portfolio-ready capstone proposal and pitch that can support job interviews, promotion conversations, or funding discussions
How the course is taught
- Self-paced, online course
- 6 Months to complete
- Open enrollment, begin anytime
- 100 course hours
Instructors & Support
Chef Brooke Preston is a pioneer in nutrient-dense, healing cuisine, with more than three decades of experience transforming familiar comfort foods into deeply restorative meals that support the body’s innate intelligence.
Her work began in 1992 with Tita’s Kitchen, one of the Bay Area’s first meal delivery services focused on whole, healing foods—well ahead of the wellness movement becoming mainstream. As her work evolved, so did her mission: to empower people with practical, delicious ways to reclaim their health.
That mission came fully to life through The Green Boheme, a Sacramento-based restaurant Preston owned and operated for ten years. During her tenure, she earned international recognition as one of the world’s leading raw vegan chefs, named in Raw Food Volume 2 by Lisa Montgomery. More importantly, she used the restaurant as a living classroom—teaching, mentoring, and witnessing hundreds of individuals restore their health, vitality, and stamina through food as medicine.
Today, Chef Preston continues her work as a coach, educator, and culinary strategist—supporting clients, catering events, facilitating cleanses, and teaching transformational food practices. She is currently developing her next book and creating Reinvented: Foundations, a metabolic reset coaching program designed to help women reprogram daily rhythms, stabilize appetite and energy, and build sustainable habits that support metabolic health—without restriction or rigid dieting.
Requirements
Prerequisites:
No prior experience required. Recommended: basic computer and internet skills; interest in restaurant/hospitality operations. (Program is designed for career changers and entry-to-advancement learners.)
Requirements:
Hardware Requirements:
- This course can be taken on either a PC, Mac or Chromebook device.
Software Requirements:
- PC: Windows 10 or later.
- Mac: macOS 12 or later.
- Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
- Any word processing application (not included in enrollment).
- Microsoft Word Online
- Adobe Acrobat Reader.
- Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.
Other:
- Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.
Instructional Material Requirements:
The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.