400+ Hospitality & Food Service Jobs in Minneapolis, MN

The clearest local benchmark is the BLS food preparation and serving group at a $17.41 mean hourly wage in May 2025. More current posting data suggests hourly roles center on about $16 to $19 an hour locally, while salaried postings center on about $60k to $72k; those annual ranges likely skew toward management and specialized roles rather than the whole category.

Full August 2026 market report

Advertised pay

Across the 352 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $36,312 at the 25th percentile, $41,267 at the median and $44,720 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of September 11, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Balanced market | next 3-6 months

This is a workable but selective market for hospitality job seekers in the Twin Cities. Metro unemployment was about 3.0% in July 2026, Minnesota hospitality postings were up 7.7% year over year in August, and the local sample captured more than 600 postings across more than 200 companies over the last 90 days. But Minnesota hospitality employment was still down 0.8% year over year, and national hires were down 3.2727% year over year, so employers appear more willing to post openings than to expand headcount quickly. That usually means decent odds of finding interviews for on-site roles, but tougher odds of landing a premium schedule or a big pay jump.

Best positioned: Applicants with recent restaurant, hotel, airport, or institutional food-service experience, full on-site availability, and current food-safety basics such as ServSafe have the best odds right now.

Main caution: Do not mistake a busy posting market for an easy or high-paying one: hourly postings center on about $16 to $19, while the broad local food-prep and serving wage benchmark is $17.41.

From the August 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 420 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Compass Group: 21 open roles
2. Presbyterian Homes & Services, Inc.: 17 open roles
3. Cassia: 14 open roles
4. Wealshire: 14 open roles
5. The Waters: 10 open roles
6. Elior: 9 open roles
7. Morrissey Hospitality Inc.: 9 open roles
8. Eurest USA: 8 open roles
9. Vivie: 8 open roles
10. Coborn's, Inc.: 7 open roles

Where the openings are

• Minneapolis: 72
• Saint Paul: 51
• Minnetonka: 17
• Plymouth: 16
• Burnsville: 16
• Edina: 16
• Hopkins: 16
• Bloomington: 14

Work arrangement

on-site 404 (100%), hybrid 1 (0%), remote 1 (0%)

Where the demand is

Opportunity is not sitting with one dominant employer. Over the last 90 days, the local sample shows more than 600 postings across more than 200 companies, and hiring is fragmented rather than concentrated in one chain or hotel group. The most active named employers in that sample were Starbucks Corp. with more than 50 postings and Compass Group with more than 40, while Minnesota DEED also highlights Compass Group, Aramark, Sodexo, Target Corporation, Hyatt, and Marriott as active regional recruiters. Only about 5% of sampled postings came from small employers, so the practical search strategy is to start with larger operators before circling back to independents. The mix of openings suggests a three-lane market. Hospitality itself accounts for about 35% of sampled postings, healthcare and hospitals/health care together account for about 25%, and restaurants plus food and beverage contribute about 20%. Live local examples reinforce that pattern: airport-hotel hiring at InterContinental spanned guest services, servers, baristas, cooks, and dish/steward roles, while recent local roundups also pointed to airport restaurants, senior-living kitchens, grocery, and chain restaurant employers.

• Airport hotels and airport food service (high): InterContinental Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport showed active openings across guest services, server, barista, line cook, pastry cook, banquet cook, and dishwasher/steward roles, and MSP airport restaurant work was listed at $22.25/hour.
• Contract and institutional food service (high): Regional recruiters include Compass Group, Aramark, and Sodexo, and healthcare-related postings make up about 25% of the sampled mix when combining healthcare and hospitals/health care.
• Restaurants, chains, and grocery-backed food service (moderate): Restaurants and food & beverage each account for about 10% of sampled postings, and recent local roundups featured Whole Foods Market, Domino's Team Honey Badger, and Buffalo Wild Wings among active employers.
• Banquets, catering, and hotel operations (moderate): Omni Viking Lakes advertised banquet-related kitchen roles, and InterContinental's careers page showed hotel-operations openings beyond the kitchen itself.

Where to focus: Put your first wave of applications into airport hotels and institutional food service, then use restaurants as a volume lane rather than your only lane.

Roles worth searching next

• Retail associate or shift lead: The overlap is strong because local hospitality postings emphasize customer service, cash handling, and inventory management.
• Front desk receptionist or office coordinator: Guest-service habits, verbal communication, and problem resolution transfer well from hotel and restaurant work.
• Environmental services or facilities support associate: Cleaning, sanitation, and on-site reliability are already prominent in local hospitality postings.
• Inventory or stock coordinator: Inventory management is one of the most common hard skills in local hospitality postings, especially for people already trusted with back-room or closing work.

What postings ask for

• Food safety / ServSafe (table_stakes | immediate): Food safety is one of the most requested local skills at about 20% of postings, and ServSafe is the certification mentioned most often, though still only in about 5% of postings. Who: Entry-level kitchen applicants, career switchers, and anyone trying to move from restaurant support into higher-trust kitchen work.
• Customer service and verbal communication (table_stakes | immediate): Customer service appears in about 15% of local postings, and broader hospitality guidance keeps active listening and verbal communication near the top of employer asks for floor and guest-service roles. Who: Servers, baristas, front desk applicants, and people moving in from retail or care work.
• Cash handling and POS systems (differentiator | immediate): Cash handling shows up in about 25% of local postings, and POS proficiency is a recurring requirement in broader hospitality hiring guidance. Who: Front-of-house, coffee, counter-service, concession, and quick-service candidates.
• Inventory management (differentiator | near-term): Inventory management appears in about 25% of local postings, which makes it one of the clearest stepping-stone skills for shift lead and supervisor-track roles. Who: Mid-career candidates who want to move out of pure line work and into openings, closings, or ordering responsibility.
• Food preparation, knife skills, and production speed (table_stakes | immediate): Food preparation appears in about 20% of local postings, and broader hospitality guidance highlights knife skills as a core kitchen competency. Who: Cooks, prep cooks, banquet staff, and career switchers trying to enter back-of-house roles.
• Sanitation and cleaning discipline (differentiator | immediate): Sanitation is mentioned in about 15% of local postings and cleaning in about 10%, which matters because about 95% or more of local roles are on-site operational jobs. Who: Dish/steward, housekeeping, kitchen support, and institutional food-service applicants.

Questions about this market

What do Hospitality, Food Service & Travel roles pay in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI?

The clearest local benchmark is the BLS food preparation and serving group at a $17.41 mean hourly wage in May 2025. More current posting data suggests hourly roles center on about $16 to $19 an hour locally, while salaried postings center on about $60k to $72k; those annual ranges likely skew toward management and specialized roles rather than the whole category. For most applicants, this is a moderate-pay market. Recent local examples ran from $17.00/hour for a banquet cook opening to $22.25/hour for airport restaurant work and $21.00–$22.64/hour for an institutional cooking role.

Where is demand for Hospitality, Food Service & Travel roles in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI concentrated?

Opportunity is not sitting with one dominant employer. Over the last 90 days, the local sample shows more than 600 postings across more than 200 companies, and hiring is fragmented rather than concentrated in one chain or hotel group. The most active named employers in that sample were Starbucks Corp. with more than 50 postings and Compass Group with more than 40, while Minnesota DEED also highlights Compass Group, Aramark, Sodexo, Target Corporation, Hyatt, and Marriott as active regional recruiters. Only about 5% of sampled postings came from small employers, so the practical search strategy is to start with larger operators before circling back to independents. The mix of openings suggests a three-lane market. Hospitality itself accounts for about 35% of sampled postings, healthcare and hospitals/health care together account for about 25%, and restaurants plus food and beverage contribute about 20%. Live local examples reinforce that pattern: airport-hotel hiring at InterContinental spanned guest services, servers, baristas, cooks, and dish/steward roles, while recent local roundups also pointed to airport restaurants, senior-living kitchens, grocery, and chain restaurant employers.

Which employers are hiring the most Hospitality, Food Service & Travel talent in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI?

Recent postings show the most activity from Starbucks Corp. (50 postings), Compass Group (40 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Hospitality, Food Service & Travel roles in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 5% are remote and 0% hybrid, with 95% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

How current are these listings?

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