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30 food related career choices NOT including a restaurant chef

Talk to any of your friends or family members who work in a restaurant kitchen, and they will tell you about the long hours working nights, weekends, and holidays. They will tell you about the burns and knife related injuries, their sore feet and back problems, and the fast pace life of a restaurant chef. Many of us really enjoy this type of atmosphere as a career choice, however, it is not a fit for everyone. Here is a short-list of food related career choices other than working in a restaurant:

  • Catering/Food Truck - Depending on your business plan, the hours can be more manageable, you can control the volume of customers, and it is easier to plan ahead. This career path does rely on some marketing and promotion experience to increase customer awareness of your brand though.
  • Personal Chef - Those who have extra coin in their pocket sometimes like to have a chef on staff to cook for their family, friends, or corporate events. Unfortunately, if your boss would like a PB&J at 2:00am, make sure not to hurt yourself when cutting the crust off.
  • Chef Instructor - If you have a passion for teaching and a love for food, this may be the choice for you.
  • Corporate Chef - This position does require actual restaurant experience, but many large restaurant chains, food manufacturers, and retail outlets like to have a chef at the helm to develop recipes, train staff, manage consistency, as well as be the culinary spokesperson for their company.
  • R&D Chef - A research and development chef is part chef, part food scientist, and part product development specialist. They test and create food items for retail, foodservice, and manufacturers, as well as study consumer science and trend data to give you the goods you want.
  • Food of Beverage Scientist/QC/QA - Understanding the functionality of food and beverages, quality control, quality assurance, food safety, and the use of all of sorts on interesting things like gum, starch, and flavor systems. Basically the analytical assessment of foodstuff. (a.k.a. the 'mathlete' of food)
  • Market and Consumer Research/Analysis - Understanding consumer science, food trends, buying practices, and psychology of the food and beverage industry.
  • Consultant - You obviously need to have quite a bit of experience to be at a consultant level, but many companies will spend big bucks for those with training in specific areas, as well as allow for short term employment if you don't like to 'settle-down'.
  • Farmer/Forager - Truffles don’t grow on trees…well they do, but you have to find and gather them! Also, all those fruits, vegetables, and grains don’t just magically appear.
  • Livestock/Agriculture - Take farming a step further and understand the science behind breeding and growing for optimized and safe output.
  • Butcher/Fishmonger/Cheesemonger/Sommelier - Be a meat, fish, cheese, or wine expert and have lots of fun interesting factoids to talk about at parties!
  • Sales - Every industry around the world needs a sales guy to move their products.
  • Buyer/Purchasing - Every industry around the world needs a buyer to find products...kind of repetitive.
  • Import/Export - Having skills in international business as well as knowledge of all that documentation stuff is very important. Contracts, traceability yada yada yada...



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