1,000+ Hospitality & Food Service Jobs in New York, NY

Government wage data says the metro's broad food-preparation and serving group averaged $22.22 per hour in May 2025, while the full food-prep-and-serving occupation family had a 2025 annual median of $38,160, a mean of $46,220, and a 90th-percentile wage of $67,080. Management and specialty tracks sit higher: food service managers averaged $93,730 in May 2025, and chefs and head cooks were at $75,730 in the latest title-specific metro estimate available from May 2023.

Full September 2026 market report

Advertised pay

Across the 947 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $37,440 at the 25th percentile, $41,600 at the median and $47,840 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of October 17, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Balanced market | next 3-6 months

Broad New York labor conditions are decent, but this category is no longer expanding with the rest of the metro. Metro leisure and hospitality employment was 960.5 thousand in August 2026, down -0.8874% year over year, while total metro nonfarm employment rose 0.5029% and metro unemployment fell to 4.7%. Jobs are still out there, but the easier wins are in high-volume on-site operations rather than premium chef, luxury hotel, or specialized travel roles.

Best positioned: Candidates with flexible schedules, recent on-site service experience, and proof of food safety, inventory, or cash-handling skills have the best odds because the posting mix is mostly on-site, heavily entry-level, and centered on restaurant and hospitality operations.

Main caution: Do not confuse a huge hospitality economy with a hot hiring cycle: Revelio Public Labor Statistics shows New York hospitality, food service & travel employment essentially flat year over year and active postings down 2.1% even though the metro still shows more than 2,700 postings across more than 700 companies in the last 90 days.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 1,096 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Compass Group: 85 open roles
2. Applebee: 47 open roles
3. Atria Senior Living, Inc.: 25 open roles
4. Sunrise Senior Living Management, LLC: 25 open roles
5. Eataly Group: 20 open roles
6. Tao Group: 19 open roles
7. FLIK Hospitality Group: 16 open roles
8. Empregara: 14 open roles
9. Red Lobster, Inc.: 13 open roles
10. Restaurant Associates: 13 open roles

Where the openings are

• New York: 466
• Brooklyn: 40
• Staten Island: 20
• Stamford: 16
• Newark: 15
• Yonkers: 12
• Hackensack: 11
• Basking Ridge: 11

Work arrangement

on-site 991 (100%), hybrid 2 (0%), remote 1 (0%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is concentrated in the restaurant-and-lodging side of this category, not spread evenly across every title. In the local posting sample, hospitality accounts for about 30% of postings, restaurants about 20%, and several food-and-beverage segments about 10% each. As an approximation of the core restaurant labor pool, BLS counted 697,700 food-prep-and-serving workers in the metro in 2025, and leisure and hospitality still employed 960.5 thousand people in August 2026 despite the recent pullback. The employer base is broad rather than dominated by one chain. The sample shows more than 2,700 postings across more than 700 companies, fragmented across employers, with the most consistently active names including Starbucks Corp., Compass Group, and Applebee. For job seekers, that usually means faster results from multi-track searching across contract food service, casual dining, hotels, and branded hospitality than from waiting on one marquee employer. The market is much stronger for on-site operating roles than for flexible travel or remote planning work. About 95% or more of local postings are on-site, less than 5% are hybrid, and less than 5% are remote. Evidence in this bundle is much richer for restaurant, hotel, and food-service operations than for niche travel-agent or flight-attendant openings, so treat the latter as thinner lanes.

• Restaurants, cafes, and contract food service (high): Best volume path for quick entry, especially if you can show speed, reliability, sanitation, and cash or inventory discipline.
• Hotels, front office, and housekeeping-linked operations (moderate): Worth targeting if you want more structured employers; an eight-year contract covering 27,000 hotel workers was ratified in May 2026, pointing to a more formal labor environment in large-city hotels.
• Supervisory culinary and service leadership (moderate): Smaller funnel than entry-level roles, but the best mix of pay and advancement if you can prove training, scheduling, ordering, or service ownership.

Where to focus: Focus first on on-site restaurant, cafe, hotel, and contract food-service roles that can lead to shift lead or manager titles, because that is where volume and wage upside overlap.

Roles worth searching next

• Retail supervisor or store lead: The overlap is strong in cash handling, shift coverage, customer service, and inventory control.
• Customer support or reservations coordinator: Guest recovery, booking, phone handling, and detail accuracy transfer well from hotel and restaurant service.
• Office or operations coordinator: Scheduling, supply ordering, cross-team coordination, and deadline handling all carry over from hospitality operations.
• Property management or facilities coordinator: Housekeeping, front-desk, and guest-services candidates often already understand occupancy, turnover, vendor follow-up, and service standards.

What postings ask for

• Food safety (table_stakes | immediate): Food safety shows up in about 20% of local postings and is one of the clearest baseline signals for kitchen and service operations roles. Who: Entry-level kitchen staff, career switchers, and anyone applying across multiple food-service settings.
• Sanitation (table_stakes | immediate): Sanitation appears in about 15% of local postings and pairs with food safety as a screening requirement for many employers. Who: Back-of-house candidates, banquet staff, and hotel food-service applicants.
• Inventory management (differentiator | immediate): Inventory management appears in about 20% of local postings and is one of the fastest ways to separate yourself from purely service-only applicants. Who: Mid-career candidates, shift leads, cooks moving toward sous-chef tracks, and retail switchers.
• Cash handling (table_stakes | immediate): Cash handling appears in about 20% of local postings, making it highly portable across cafes, quick service, and front-desk-adjacent roles. Who: Front-of-house applicants, baristas, hosts, and candidates coming from retail.
• Beverage preparation (differentiator | near-term): Beverage preparation shows up in about 10% of local postings and can widen access to cafe, bar, and upscale service roles. Who: Front-of-house candidates and anyone seeking better tip or service-complexity environments.
• Staff training (premium | near-term): Staff training appears in about 5% of postings, which makes it less common but especially useful when competing for supervisory roles. Who: Assistant managers, senior servers, lead baristas, and kitchen candidates moving into supervision.

Questions about this market

What do Hospitality, Food Service & Travel roles pay in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ?

Government wage data says the metro's broad food-preparation and serving group averaged $22.22 per hour in May 2025, while the full food-prep-and-serving occupation family had a 2025 annual median of $38,160, a mean of $46,220, and a 90th-percentile wage of $67,080. Management and specialty tracks sit higher: food service managers averaged $93,730 in May 2025, and chefs and head cooks were at $75,730 in the latest title-specific metro estimate available from May 2023. This is still a broad-access field with modest frontline pay and a real jump only when you move into management, luxury kitchens, or roles that own labor, ordering, or guest outcomes.

Where is demand for Hospitality, Food Service & Travel roles in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ concentrated?

Real opportunity is concentrated in the restaurant-and-lodging side of this category, not spread evenly across every title. In the local posting sample, hospitality accounts for about 30% of postings, restaurants about 20%, and several food-and-beverage segments about 10% each. As an approximation of the core restaurant labor pool, BLS counted 697,700 food-prep-and-serving workers in the metro in 2025, and leisure and hospitality still employed 960.5 thousand people in August 2026 despite the recent pullback. The employer base is broad rather than dominated by one chain. The sample shows more than 2,700 postings across more than 700 companies, fragmented across employers, with the most consistently active names including Starbucks Corp., Compass Group, and Applebee. For job seekers, that usually means faster results from multi-track searching across contract food service, casual dining, hotels, and branded hospitality than from waiting on one marquee employer. The market is much stronger for on-site operating roles than for flexible travel or remote planning work. About 95% or more of local postings are on-site, less than 5% are hybrid, and less than 5% are remote. Evidence in this bundle is much richer for restaurant, hotel, and food-service operations than for niche travel-agent or flight-attendant openings, so treat the latter as thinner lanes.

Which employers are hiring the most Hospitality, Food Service & Travel talent in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ?

Recent postings show the most activity from Starbucks Corp. (200 postings), Compass Group (150 postings), Applebee (75 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Hospitality, Food Service & Travel roles in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 2% are remote and 3% hybrid, with 95% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

How current are these listings?

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