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Food Service Director

ARAMARK

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Location
Indianapolis, IN
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Job overview

The Food Service Director oversees dining operations, including food production, distribution, service, menu planning, and front-of-house management. The role leads and develops teams, manages budgets and operational forecasts, maintains food safety and sanitation standards, and builds client relationships. The director also supports sales growth, client retention, and food service plans aligned with client missions and sustainable practices.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Team LeadershipBudget ManagementFood Service OperationsMenu PlanningCommunicationClient Relationship ManagementCustomer ServiceInterdepartmental CollaborationLifting Up to 50 LbStanding for Extended Periods

Qualifications

4+ Years Experience1+ Years Management ExperienceFood Service ExperienceBachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience

Full job description

Job Description

Leadership

? Lead, mentor, engage and develop teams to maximize their contributions, including recruiting, assessing, training, coaching and managing performance

? Ensure food services appropriately connects to the Executional Framework

? Coach employees by creating a shared understanding about what needs to be achieved and how to execute

? Reward and recognize employees

? Ensure safety and sanitation standards in all operations

Client Relationship

? Identify client needs and effectively communicate operational progress

Financial Performance

? Adopt Aramark process and systems

? Build revenue and manage budget, including cost controls regarding food, beverage and labor

? Ensure the completion and maintenance of P&L statements

? Achieve food and labor targets

? Manage resources to ensure quality and cost control within budgetary guidelines

Productivity

? Implement and maintain Aramark agenda for both labor and food initiatives

? Create value through efficient operations, appropriate cost controls and profit management

? Full compliance with Operational Excellence fundamentals, including food and labor

? Direct and oversee operations related to production, distribution and food service

Compliance

? Maintain a safe and healthy environment for clients, customers and employees

? Comply with all applicable policies, rules and regulations, including but not limited to those relating to safety, health, wage and hour

Key Responsibilities

? Establish and maintain systems and procedures for the ordering, receiving, storing, preparing and serving of food related products, as well as menu planning and development

? Develops operational component forecasts and can explain variances. Responsible for components accounting functions.

? Ensures that requirements for appropriate sanitation and safety levels in respective areas are met

? Coordinates and supervises unit personnel regarding production, merchandising, quality and cost control, labor management and employee training

? Recruits, hires, develops and retains front line team.

? Conducts period inventory

? Maintains records to comply with ARAMARK, government and accrediting agency standards

? Interacts with Client Management and maintains effective client and customer relations at all levels with client organization

? May participate in sales process and negotiation of contracts

? Looks for opportunities to implement new products and services which support sales growth and client retention

Additional Responsibilities

? Manage the front of the house of the dining operation (Cafeteria/ Residential Dining Facility)

? Develop and implement food service plans aligned with the client's mission and vision, to include sustainable practices

At Aramark, developing new skills and doing what it takes to get the job done make a positive impact for our employees and for our customers. In order to meet our commitments, job duties may change or new ones may be assigned without formal notice.

Job Responsibilities

Qualifications

? Requires at least 4 years of experience

? Requires at least 1-3 years of experience in a management role

? Requires previous experience in food service

? Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

? Strong communication skills

? Ability to develop and maintain effective client and customer rapport for mutually beneficial business relationships

? Ability to demonstrate excellent customer service using Aramark's standard model

? Ability to maintain an effective working relationship with other departments to a unified food service experience for all customers

? Requires occasional lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling up to 50 lb.

? Must be able to stand for extended periods of time.

Education

About Aramark

Workplace Hospitality builds dining and hospitality programs that work, day after day. Chef-led menus designed around the people and the operational reality of each space. Reliable across locations, consistent across shifts, flexible enough to fit the way your business actually runs.

From a single site to a national footprint, programs sized to what you need and built to flex as that changes. Programs leaders can count on, and employees come back for.

Good food. Good people. Done right.

Our Mission

Rooted in service and united by our purpose, we strive to do great things for each other, our partners, our communities, and our planet.

At Aramark, we believe that every employee should enjoy equal employment opportunity and be free to participate in all aspects of the company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, pregnancy, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military status, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by applicable law.

About Aramark

The people of Aramark proudly serve millions of guests every day through food and facilities in 15 countries around the world. Rooted in service and united by our purpose, we strive to do great things for each other, our partners, our communities, and our planet. We believe a career should develop your talents, fuel your passions, and empower your professional growth. So, no matter what you're pursuing - a new challenge, a sense of belonging, or just a great place to work - our focus is helping you reach your full potential. Learn more about working here at http://www.aramarkcareers.com or connect with us on Facebook , Instagram and Twitter .

How this job compares

Set against the 1,234 open Food Service Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • US median$65–75K/yr642 salary ranges
  • US median$20–22/hr278 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 25 open Food Service Manager jobs in Indiana and 1,234 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Indiana
Experience
This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience — more than three in four Food Service Manager postings that state a minimum ask for (median 2 years, across 711 postings).
Education
26 of the 1,234 open Food Service Manager jobs (2%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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