the best bet for somebody looking to move up the ladder is to familiarize yourself with food and labor cost %, purchasing and ordering, more on the logistical side of things, which will help to set you apart from the rest. some people unfamiliar with the industry might look at my reasoning as nothing more than sour grapes, but once you get a feel for things from an insiders perspective, things become alot more clear.
And if you're going to be competing in a huge foodcentric city (like New York or Chicago), I'll just throw in that a little background in marketing wouldn't hurt (especially digital marketing). Twenty years ago that was unheard of. Today it's just about essential.
