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Dietary manager resume examples for 2025

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Updated March 26, 2025
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How to write a dietary manager resume

Craft a resume summary statement

Your resume summary sums up your experience and skills, making it easy for hiring managers to understand your qualifications at a glance. Here are some tips to writing the most important 2-4 sentences of your resume:

Step 1: Mention your current job title or the role you're pursuing.

Step 2: Include your years of experience in dietary manager-related roles. Consider adding relevant company and industry experience as relevant to the job listing.

Step 3: Highlight your greatest accomplishments. Here is your chance to make sure your biggest wins aren't buried in your resume.

Step 4: Again, keep it short. Your goal is to summarize your experience and highlight your accomplishments, not write a paragraph.

Hiring managers spend under a minute reviewing resumes on average. This means your summary needs to demonstrate your value quickly and show why you are the perfect fit for the dietary manager position.

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List the right project manager skills

Your Skills section is a place to list all relevant skills and abilities. Here is how to make the most of your skills section and make sure you have the right keywords:

  1. Start with the job listing. Frequently, the keywords looked for by recruiters will be listed. Be careful to include all skills in the job listing you have experience with.
  2. Consider all the software and tools you use on a daily basis. When in doubt, list them!
  3. Make sure you use accurate and up to date terms for all the skills listed.
These five steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some dietary manager interviews.

Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a dietary manager resume:

  • Kitchen Equipment
  • Patients
  • Dietary Services
  • Infection Control
  • Food Preparation
  • Federal Regulations
  • Food Safety
  • Good Communication
  • State Regulations
  • Meal Planning
  • OSHA
  • Food Handling
  • MDS
  • Food Preferences
  • Budget Guidelines
  • Federal Guidelines
  • Plan Menus
  • Food Production
  • Local Regulations
  • Diet Changes
  • Therapeutic Diets
  • Bed Facility
  • Tray Line
  • ServSafe
  • Payroll
  • Dishwashers
  • CDM
  • Care Conferences
  • Care Plan
  • Food Service Operations

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How to structure your work experience

Your employment history is arguably one of the most important parts of your resume. It shows you have experience and foundation in your field to successfully master the dietary manager position. Here is how to most effectively structure your work experience:

  1. List your most recent experience first, followed by earlier roles in reverse chronological order. Employers care about your most recent experience the most.
  2. Start with your job title, company name, city, and state on the left. Align dates in month and year format on the right-hand side.
  3. Include only recent, relevant jobs.

How to write dietary manager experience bullet points

Your resume is your chance to show your biggest accomplishments. Don't just list your job responsibilities, instead take the opportunity to show why you're really good at what you do. Here is how you do that:

  • Start with strong action verbs like managed, spearheaded, created, etc. Your goal is to show what you did and verbs will help demonstrate your contributions.
  • Use numbers to quantify your achievements. Did you save time with a new report? Increase revenue? How large was the team you managed?
  • Keep it concise. You're highlighting your achievements. Consider if all details you are sharing are relevant, or can be written more efficiently.

Here are effective examples from dietary manager resumes:

Work history example #1

Pastry Chef Assistant

Bon Appetit Management

  • Created and prepared menu for catering functions, management events, celebrations, company BBQ's, etc.
  • Served gourmet food in sous chef fashion Oversaw the orientation and training of two employees
  • Used creative and attractive portions and arrangements of food on serving dishes and trays.
  • Learned Hotel management techniques, including more advanced menus, knife training and culinary competition experience under master chef direction
  • Collaborated with Executive Chef on designing new menus that reduced food costs without sacrificing quality or originality.

Work history example #2

Kitchen Supervisor

Bedford Village Inn

  • Prepared line for dinner service including: dressings, extensive knifework, organized walk-in, planned for service.
  • Developed food safety training program implementing *HACCP principles
  • opened and closed saute and noodle lines.
  • Coordinated between FOH/BOH and interacted with customers; ensured high-quality customer service and satisfaction.
  • Ensured food safety and FIFO rotation.

Work history example #3

Dietary Manager

Ramada State College

  • Ensured that employees met all requirements of the Board of Health, OSHA and the Indiana Department of Education.
  • Trained child nutrition staff and ensured menus meet current USDA guidelines.
  • Established work performance standards by organizing, training, delegating and supervising* Maintained accounts payable, accounts receivable and bi-weekly payroll.
  • Implemented USDA Six Cents Certification Eligibility.
  • Maintained technical employee training files and coordinated OSHA training.

Work history example #4

Dietary Manager

Dignity Health

  • Participated in Healthcare Foodservice Management (HFM) Benchmark program and completed annual Baseline Financial Assessment.
  • Managed the food procurement, preparation and provision of nutritional services to residents in a long-term facility.
  • Completed resident MDS assessments, including CAAS.
  • Received a scholarship to take CDM coarse and maintained an A average.
  • Initiated negotiations regarding vendor contracts and kept updated records of contracts.

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Add an education section to your resume

Employers are looking for a few things when looking at the Education section of your resume:
  • The highest degree you have achieved.
  • TWhere you attended school, and the dates (Although if you graduated some time ago, leave the date off to avoid ageism)
  • TField of study
  • TAny honors, relevant coursework, achievements, or pertinent activities

Here are some examples of good education entries from dietary manager resumes:

Certificate in food and nutrition

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

2012 - 2013

Highlight your dietary manager certifications on your resume

If you have any additional certifications, add them to the certification section.

Include the full name of the certification, along with the name of the issuing organization and date of obtainment.

Here are some of the best certifications to have on dietary manager resumes:

  1. Certified Dietary Manager (CDM)
  2. ServSafe Alcohol
  3. Certified Food Manager (CFM)
  4. Certified Food Protection Professional (CFPP)
  5. ServSafe Food Protection Manager Certification
  6. Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS)
  7. Food Safety Manager Certification
  8. Certified Manager Certification (CM)
  9. Certified Professional - Food Safety (CP-FS)

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