250+ Hospitality & Food Service Jobs in San Antonio, TX

The cleanest local pay anchor is BLS: food preparation and serving jobs in the metro had a median wage of about $15.02 an hour, or roughly $31,260 a year, in May 2025, with a mean of about $37,140. In the Callings.ai job database, hourly-paid postings clustered around about $15 to $17 an hour, with a broader band of about $15 to $20. As a broader benchmark, mean offered salary on new hospitality openings in Texas was about $34,538 in August 2026 in Revelio Public Labor Statistics, based on n=3,253 new openings, which is useful as direction but not a metro posted-pay median.

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Advertised pay

Across the 90 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $31,200 at the 25th percentile, $32,240 at the median and $35,360 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of September 25, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Balanced market | next 3-6 months

This is a workable but not easy market right now. San Antonio-New Braunfels still has a large leisure and hospitality base with 152.6 thousand jobs in June 2026, and more than 400 recent postings were observed across more than 150 companies over the last 90 days, but metro leisure and hospitality employment was down 0.8447% year over year and Texas hospitality employment was down 1.5% year over year. Pay is the bigger constraint than job existence: the metro median for food preparation and serving roles was about $15.02 an hour, and hourly postings in the local sample centered on about $15 to $17 an hour. That means flexible applicants can still land work, but the market is less forgiving if you are holding out for premium pay, remote options, or a narrow sub-role.

Best positioned: Candidates with open schedule availability, on-site flexibility, and proof of TABC, food safety, cash handling, or inventory discipline have the best odds right now.

Main caution: The biggest trap is assuming lots of hospitality openings means strong bargaining power; most local postings are entry-level and on-site, while the best-paying chef and leadership paths are much narrower than the overall market.

From the August 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 260 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Panda Express: 26 open roles
2. Marriott International, Inc.: 12 open roles
3. White Lodging: 11 open roles
4. Aramark Corporation: 9 open roles
5. Aramark Corporation: 8 open roles
6. Compass Group: 8 open roles
7. Landry's, Inc.: 8 open roles
8. Healthcare Services Group: 6 open roles
9. Sahealth: 6 open roles
10. Saltgrass, Inc.: 6 open roles

Where the openings are

• San Antonio: 234
• Alamo Heights: 4
• Live Oak: 3
• Schertz: 3
• Hollywood Park: 3
• Bulverde: 2
• Madison: 2
• Cibolo: 2

Work arrangement

on-site 249 (100%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is spread across many employers rather than one dominant chain. More than 400 postings were observed across more than 150 companies over the last 90 days, and the local sample is fragmented rather than concentrated. The most consistently active named employers were Starbucks Corp. with more than 40 postings and Landry's, Inc. with around 20, which points to steady café, restaurant, and venue-based hiring more than a single blockbuster employer. By industry mix, about 50% of local postings sat in hospitality, about 15% in food and beverage, about 10% in restaurants, and about 10% in healthcare. That is an important clue: the safer search is not restaurants only. Hotel service teams, healthcare food service, and multi-unit operators likely offer more repeat openings than one-off independents. Recent local signals support that split, with a new Tim Hortons café, Roo Pub's planned New Braunfels expansion, several new dining spots across the corridor, and a new stand-alone Whataburger on the Northwest Side. New Braunfels adds a second pocket of demand. Local tourism generated $1.3 billion in revenue last year, and Visit New Braunfels said it will pursue more convention business, which can support banquet, catering, and hotel food-and-beverage roles. But the lodging side is not uniformly strong, because local hotel and convention leaders also reported a recent downturn in the hotel market.

• Chain cafés, QSR, and casual dining (high): This is the steadiest near-term lane because Starbucks was the most active named employer in the sample, Tim Hortons opened a new café, and Whataburger added a new stand-alone site while other dining spots also opened around the corridor.
• Hotels, front desk, housekeeping, and banquet (moderate): Hospitality accounts for about 50% of the local posting mix, and Riverwalk hotel ownership changes plus a New Braunfels convention push may create role-by-role openings, but hotel-demand commentary was softer by mid-2026.
• Healthcare food service (moderate): About 10% of local postings in this category came from healthcare, making it a useful stability play for candidates who can handle food safety, sanitation, and structured shifts.
• Banquet, catering, and event-support hospitality (moderate): New Braunfels tourism volume and the local push for more convention business suggest a reasonable niche for banquet servers, catering support, and hotel culinary teams, even if it is not the whole market.

Where to focus: Focus first on multi-unit cafés, QSR, hotel/banquet teams, and healthcare food service, then layer in independent restaurants once you already have interviews moving.

Roles worth searching next

• Retail shift lead or store supervisor: Cash handling, inventory management, customer service, and schedule coordination transfer well from food service and front-of-house work.
• Customer service representative or reservations support: Front-desk, concierge, and guest-service experience converts well into phone, chat, and scheduling work.
• Environmental services or facilities cleaner: Cleaning, sanitation, pace, and reliability already show up in local hospitality demand and transfer directly to non-hospitality cleaning roles.
• Inventory coordinator or stock associate: Inventory management, ordering discipline, and process focus are already in demand locally for hospitality and culinary-adjacent roles.

What postings ask for

• TABC certification (table_stakes | immediate): TABC was the most commonly required certification called out in local postings, so it is one of the fastest credibility boosts for bar, restaurant, and venue work. Who: Entry-level applicants, bartenders, servers, barbacks, and anyone targeting event or venue work.
• Food safety and sanitation (table_stakes | immediate): Food safety, sanitation, and cleaning all showed up repeatedly in local posting requirements, and chef-level profiles also stress sanitation monitoring as core work. Who: Cooks, prep staff, dish, catering, banquet, and healthcare food-service candidates.
• Cash handling and POS accuracy (table_stakes | immediate): Cash handling was the most-requested hard skill in the local posting sample at about 25%, making it a strong cross-role signal for front-of-house and counter roles. Who: Baristas, hosts, counter staff, servers, and front-desk candidates.
• Inventory management (differentiator | near-term): Inventory management appeared in about 20% of local postings, which makes it a meaningful separator for shift leads, kitchen leads, and banquet or catering support roles. Who: Mid-career applicants trying to move beyond basic hourly service work.
• Beverage preparation (differentiator | immediate): Beverage preparation showed up in local skill demand, and the mix of café, bar, and venue hiring around Starbucks, Tim Hortons, and Roo Pub makes it one of the cleaner ways to widen your target list. Who: Applicants open to coffee, bar, concession, and fast-casual roles.
• AI-assisted guest service and digital ops fluency (premium | near-term): More than 65% of hospitality employers now require graduates to show AI-tool and data-analytics proficiency, and hotels are already using systems that automate 70-90% of guest conversations while staff handle escalations and higher-touch service. Who: Hotel front-desk staff, supervisors, managers, and candidates aiming for longer-term advancement.

Questions about this market

What do Hospitality, Food Service & Travel roles pay in San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX?

The cleanest local pay anchor is BLS: food preparation and serving jobs in the metro had a median wage of about $15.02 an hour, or roughly $31,260 a year, in May 2025, with a mean of about $37,140. In the Callings.ai job database, hourly-paid postings clustered around about $15 to $17 an hour, with a broader band of about $15 to $20. As a broader benchmark, mean offered salary on new hospitality openings in Texas was about $34,538 in August 2026 in Revelio Public Labor Statistics, based on n=3,253 new openings, which is useful as direction but not a metro posted-pay median. This is a moderate-pay, broad-access market. You can get in without a four-year degree in many cases, but the typical line-role pay range leaves limited room for error if you need a big income jump quickly.

Where is demand for Hospitality, Food Service & Travel roles in San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX concentrated?

Real opportunity is spread across many employers rather than one dominant chain. More than 400 postings were observed across more than 150 companies over the last 90 days, and the local sample is fragmented rather than concentrated. The most consistently active named employers were Starbucks Corp. with more than 40 postings and Landry's, Inc. with around 20, which points to steady café, restaurant, and venue-based hiring more than a single blockbuster employer. By industry mix, about 50% of local postings sat in hospitality, about 15% in food and beverage, about 10% in restaurants, and about 10% in healthcare. That is an important clue: the safer search is not restaurants only. Hotel service teams, healthcare food service, and multi-unit operators likely offer more repeat openings than one-off independents. Recent local signals support that split, with a new Tim Hortons café, Roo Pub's planned New Braunfels expansion, several new dining spots across the corridor, and a new stand-alone Whataburger on the Northwest Side. New Braunfels adds a second pocket of demand. Local tourism generated $1.3 billion in revenue last year, and Visit New Braunfels said it will pursue more convention business, which can support banquet, catering, and hotel food-and-beverage roles. But the lodging side is not uniformly strong, because local hotel and convention leaders also reported a recent downturn in the hotel market.

Which employers are hiring the most Hospitality, Food Service & Travel talent in San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX?

Recent postings show the most activity from Starbucks Corp. (40 postings), Landry's, Inc. (20 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Hospitality, Food Service & Travel roles in San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 4% 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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