Has anyone made the change from restaurant management to retail and if so how did the jobs compare/?
Asked by John Galt
I am thinking about switching career field from restaurant to retail or something similar. Please describe the positives and negatives.

Best Answer:
After I quit my job as a general manager for Pizza Hut, I became a shift manager at Gamestop. I assumed it would be much better than working with food. Most of the management duties were the same such as scheduling and cash control. Inventory was another story. Nothing was manually ordered except for reserved orders. We had no control over our stock it was all done electronically depending on what was bought throughout the corporation. This seems like it would be easier but its harder to account for a shipment when you don't know what it is. Higher priced items had to be tracked and l would pick rolling silverware or washing dishes over logging seriel numbers any day. There are a lot more monotonous tasks to be done and just like in any management job sometimes you get stuck doing them. At any retail place you are going to have to organize shelves which is so incredibly horrible to do when there are customers walking around and messing them up behind you. Labor is a little harder to control and theft prevention is something that you are responsible for. It can also be harder to please a customer if something is defective. Some items at stores are supplied by vendors, like DVD's, so if its open you can't exchange it or refund their money. Remaking someones food or voiding something off of their bill is pretty easy in a restaurant. If you plan on working in retail you'll miss out on free lunch but you might get a good discount at a store. Work somewhere with products you are interested in.

Once you find the answer please let me know, I want to do the same thing. btw GM at pizza hut - (my assumption $50k+ a year) Shift manager at game stop - (my assumption $10-$13 an hour) Why in the heck would you do this?
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