Boom in Food Services Jobs Encourages Major Career Company to Launch New Site Dedicated to Food Services Professionals

June 17, 2008   |    PDF version

EmploymentCrossing, the world’s premier job-opening research institution, announced the launch of FoodServicesCrossing on Monday. The site is dedicated to professionals seeking food services job openings. FoodServicesCrossing consolidates jobs from employer websites, job portals, restaurant websites, and other hospitality websites and collects them in its revolutionary proprietary database. The site saves chefs, cooks, restaurant managers, and other food service professionals thousands of hours of research when looking for new jobs by locating job listings for them.

Pasadena, CA — Food services professionals are responsible for the day-to-day chores of restaurants and other eateries. They prepare and serve food and beverages to customers, and resolve complaints about food quality and service. Some of them also perform a variety of administrative tasks. FoodServicesCrossing (www.foodservicescrossing.com) was launched to help food services professionals carve niches for themselves in various workplaces. FoodServicesCrossing contains all types of job listings for those who want to pursue career paths as food services managers, waiters, chefs, cooks, and the like.

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 3.1 million jobs were held by chefs, cooks, and food preparation workers in 2006, two-thirds of whom were employed in restaurants and other dining establishments. The employment of chefs and cooks is expected to grow by 11% from 2006 to 2016, faster than the average growth rate for all other occupations combined. Food service managerial jobs are expected to grow less quickly, however, with only about a 5% increase in jobs projected from 2006 to 2016. This inconsistency in the trends creates difficulties for food services professionals who are in search of good, available jobs.

''There are so many food services jobs out there that job seekers do not know about,'' says Harrison Barnes, founder and CEO of FoodServicesCrossing. ''The number of jobs present on various hospitality websites far surpasses what most job seekers see advertised on most job sites. By bringing those jobs that are on employer websites to job seekers in the food services industry, we are giving them many more options than they would get with a traditional food services job search on other commercial job boards.''

In what is perhaps a reflection of the current culinary job market, the most popular searches on the website thus far are:

• food services jobs
• food service careers
• food service director jobs
• jobs in food service
• food service job description
• food service management jobs
• school food service jobs
• food service career
• careers in food service
• food service sales jobs
• food service job descriptions
• food service manager jobs
• hospital food service jobs
• food service director job
• US food service jobs

Barnes emphasizes that FoodServicesCrossing is committed to finding new sources of jobs daily.

''There is an astonishing number of food services job openings out there. We want to find them all,'' he says.

FoodServicesCrossing charges job seekers $29.95 to look at its job-opening research. However, it is currently offering a free, seven-day trial to allow users to familiarize themselves with the service. The free trial is available to everyone on the site’s registration page for a limited time.

For more information about FoodServicesCrossing, please visit www.foodservicescrossing.com.

Contact:
Mary Waldron, Editorial Coordinator
FoodServicesCrossing
626-243-1821
maryw@employmentcrossing.com