Restaurant & Food Service Manager
Hospitality & Tourism
What a Restaurant & Food Service Manager does, what you'd need to study, and the post-SPM routes that get you there.
You can enter this career straight after SPM. A degree is optional, not required.
Picture the job
Where you'd usually workA café, restaurant or food stall
An illustration of a typical workplace, not a photo. Real workplaces vary.
Pay in Malaysia
We don't have a sourced Malaysian salary range for this job yet, and we'd rather show nothing than a number we can't stand behind.
Where to check:
- JobStreet and Hiredly job ads for this title
- DOSM Salaries & Wages Survey
- SSPA scheme tables, if you're aiming for a government post
How to get here
Post-SPM pathways with programmes in this career's fields. Tap one to see real programmes and entry requirements.
Asasi / Foundation
One-year runway into a specific university: public via UPU or private direct entry.
Diploma
Skill-first qualification. Work after, or enter degree Year 2. Polytechnics keep it affordable.
Programmes that lead here
Programmes from the official UPU (KPT) and MQA catalogues whose field of study typically leads to this career. Matched by field, not a job guarantee.
Public universities (UPU)
- Sarjana Muda Sains Pengurusan Seni Kulinari (Kepujian)Universiti Teknologi Mara · Sarjana Muda
- Sarjana Muda Sains (Kepujian) Pengurusan Perkhidmatan Makanan dengan KeusahawananUniversiti Teknologi Mara · Sarjana Muda
- Sarjana Muda Sains Pengurusan Perkhidmatan Makanan (Kepujian)Universiti Teknologi Mara · Sarjana Muda
- Sarjana Muda Pengurusan Hospitaliti dengan KepujianUniversiti Utara Malaysia · Sarjana Muda
- Sarjana Muda Pengurusan Hospitaliti dengan KepujianUniversiti Malaysia Sabah · Sarjana Muda
- Sarjana Muda Sains Pengurusan Hospitaliti (Kepujian)Universiti Teknologi Mara · Sarjana Muda
- Diploma Seni KulinariPoliteknik · Diploma
- Diploma Seni PastriUniversiti Teknologi Mara · Diploma
Private institutions (MQA-accredited)
- Diploma in Hotel Management (TVET/QF17373)SEGi College Subang Jaya · Diploma
- Certificate in Hotel OperationsSEGi College Kota Damansara · Certificate
- Diploma in Hotel ManagementEast West International College · Diploma
- Bachelor of Hospitality Management (Honours)MAHSA University · Bachelors Degree
- Licence Professionnelle Métiers Des Arts Culinaires Et Des Arts De La Table (Bachelor of Food Service Management with Culinary Arts (Honours)) 3+0 in collaboration with CY Cergy Paris Université, FranceINTI International College Subang · Bachelors Degree
- Diploma in Culinary ArtsLincoln University College · Diploma
- Diploma in Culinary ArtsAlfa University College (AUC) · Diploma
- Diploma in Culinary ArtsRanaco Education and Training Institute (RETI) · Diploma
Check what you may qualify for
Enter your SPM grades and see which routes and programmes you may qualify for. An estimate to plan with, not an offer.
Quick answers
How do you become a Restaurant & Food Service Manager in Malaysia?
Routes after SPM that lead here include Asasi / Foundation and Diploma.
Can I become a Restaurant & Food Service Manager straight after SPM?
Yes. This career can be started with a certificate, diploma or TVET training straight after SPM, without a degree.
What should I study to become a Restaurant & Food Service Manager?
Related fields of study: Hospitality & Tourism.
How much does a Restaurant & Food Service Manager earn in Malaysia?
We don't yet have a Malaysian source we can cite for Restaurant & Food Service Manager pay, so we show no figure.
AI and demand for this job
A few real, dated data points, not a single score. AI making some tasks faster usually means a job changes, not that it disappears.
Share of everyday tasks today's AI can already help with (2023)
This estimate is from 2023, already out of date, since AI moves fast. Treat it as a rough, aging starting point, not the current picture.
Of Malaysian Claude conversations, about this kind of work
Measures how much people use Claude for this work, not how many Malaysians do this job, and more AI use can mean people relying on it, not that it's replacing them.
US Bureau of Labor Statistics data, not Malaysian. Shown because it's the only forward-looking demand estimate we have for this job.
What beginner adverts asked for
We read 13 internship and fresh-graduate adverts in related fields (August 2026). A small sample from one job site, not every vacancy.
6 of 13 were internships
Allowance or pay, when stated
RM1,215 – RM2,663
8 of 13 adverts printed an amount: usually between RM1,215 and RM2,663 a month. Many print none.
Professional bodies named
MOH
Languages named
Bahasa Malaysia
An empty line means the adverts did not say, not that employers have no requirement. Check each employer's own advert before you plan around it.
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About this information
This describes what the job involves. Pay, demand and entry routes differ in Malaysia, so check the Pathways and Programmes pages for local requirements.
Job responsibilities, knowledge areas and work context from O*NET 30.3, US Department of Labor, used under CC BY 4.0. onetcenter.org