What is a Career in Cafe Management?

October 03, 2019

I am very curious about a Career in Cafe Management. Almost everyone seems to be talking about How to start a Career in Cafe Management, while I want to first develop an understanding of What is a Career in Cafe Management. It had been a while since I was researching about a Career in Cafe Management, when I came across: https://www.lifepage.in/career/20180131-0001/Others/Cafe Management/Career-in-Cafe-Management/english

Kimberley Arora's overview!

Kimberley Arora invested 5 years & 2 months in Cafe Management. Kimberley Arora has worked in Cafe Management as Co-Founder in Cafe Cibo. In Kimberley Arora's own words, this is how Kimberley Arora got into Cafe Management: "I have done BA in English Honours from St Stephens, Delhi University. After my graduation, I got married and shifted to Dehradun and started Cafe Cibo with my husband in 2014." Kimberley Arora has a profile in a very interesting format on: https://www.lifepage.in/page/kimberleyarora

Career Video on Cafe Management

In a video, Kimberley Arora has talked about various aspects of a Career in Cafe Management. Kimberley Arora started by explaining Cafe Management as: "Cafe Management involves planning, running and overseeing the activities of businesses that sell and serve food and beverages to the public. The managers hire, train and supervise staff, organise budgets, plan menus with cooks or chefs, supervise the purchase and storage of food, make and maintain financial records, and coordinate the activities of the kitchen, dining room and bar." It was an amazing video with great information.

I found the video unique because it talked about Education in terms of things which can be learnt from books, to excel at a Career in Cafe Management and not as a list of Qualifications, which one needs to get into Cafe Management. Kimberley Arora touches upon these in the Education section of the Video:

Culinary Knowledge
Market Research
Management
Human Behaviour

Skills are the most important factor determining success in a particular Career.
Kimberley Arora then explains why these Skills are essential for a Career in Cafe Management:

Eye for Good Interiors
Cooking Skills
Patience
Discipline
Communication Skills
Leadership

This Career has an interesting list of Positives.
Kimberley Arora believes that the following are some of the Positives of a Career in Cafe Management:

Meeting People
Learning New Things
Laid Back Job
Monetary Potential

Challenges define a Career as much as the Positives of the same.
And, Kimberley Arora believes that one needs to prepare for following Challenges of a Career in Cafe Management:

Staff Retention
Quality Control
Competition
No Social Life
No Holidays

In the final section of the video Kimberley Arora talks about How a day goes in a Career in Cafe Management. This video is by far the best video on a Career in Cafe Management, that I have ever come across. To see the full Talk, one needs to install the LifePage Career Talks App. Here is a direct deep link of the Video: https://lifepage.app.link/20180131-0001

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