Job prospects Operations Manager, Restaurant in Québec

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Job opportunities in Québec

These outlooks were updated on November 29, 2023.

Prospects over the next 3 years

The employment outlook will be good for Restaurant and food service managers (NOC 60030) in Quebec for the 2023-2025 period.

The following factors contributed to this outlook:

• Employment growth will lead to several new positions.
• A moderate number of positions will become available due to retirements.
• There are a moderate number of unemployed workers with recent experience in this occupation.

Future growth will mainly come from making up for jobs lost during the health crisis, but this may not be enough to return to the prepandemic level.

A more difficult economic context and changes in consumer habits could undermine business profitability and limit their ability to recruit staff. Therefore, the number of customers in restaurants with dining areas is expected to drop, which will support fast food and takeout meals.

Additionally, restaurants face competition from companies that ship ready-to-cook meal kits and retailers that are diversifying their range of services by opening fast food or ready-to-eat kiosks.

After more than two years of travel restrictions, the recovery of leisure tourism will benefit the occupation.

However, continued remote work arrangements in companies and the slow recovery of business tourism could cut off many restaurant customers, especially in downtown areas.

The slowdown during the pandemic depleted the labour pool, mainly in the tourism sector. Layoffs and more attractive and stable job offers in other sectors have attracted a number of these workers, and the industry is struggling to attract and retain employees.

Here are some key facts about Restaurant and food service managers in Quebec:

• Approximately 16,950 people work in this occupation.
• Restaurant and food service managers mainly work in the following sectors:
  • Food services and drinking places (NAICS 722): 78%
  • Arts, entertainment and recreation (NAICS 71): 8%
• The distribution of full-time and part-time workers in this occupation is:
  • Full-time workers: 87% compared to 82% for all occupations
  • Part-time workers: 13% compared to 18% for all occupations
• 56% of restaurant and food service managers work all year, while 43% work only part of the year, compared to 62% and 38% respectively among all occupations. Those who worked only part of the year did so for an average of 42 weeks compared to 43 weeks for all occupations.
• 49% of restaurant and food service managers are self-employed compared to an average of 12% for all occupations.
• The gender distribution of people in this occupation is:
  • Men: 59% compared to 52% for all occupations
  • Women: 41% compared to 48% for all occupations
• The educational attainment of workers in this occupation is:
  • no high school diploma: 14% compared to 12% for all occupations
  • high school diploma or equivalent: 27% compared to 19% for all occupations
  • apprenticeship or trades certificate or diploma: 20% compared to 19% for all occupations
  • college certificate or diploma or university certificate below bachelor's: 23% compared to 22% for all occupations
  • bachelor's degree: 12% compared to 17% for all occupations
  • university certificate, degree or diploma above bachelor level: less than 5% compared to 11% for all occupations

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Labour market conditions over the next 10 years

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