Counted November 8, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Food Runner: $22K median posted pay.
From 8 salary bands employers posted on 89 open food runner roles in hospitality & food. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
No level is named often enough in these postings to build a ladder.
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| Dave & Buster's Homepage | 36 | — |
| Asmglobal | 25 | — |
| Four Seasons | 3 | — |
| Benchmark | 3 | — |
| Montage | 3 | — |
| Pool Hiring 2021 (Mgmcareers) | 2 | — |
| Arcis | 2 | — |
| AccorHotel | 2 | — |
| Fixins Soul Kitchen | 2 | — |
| Discovery Land Company | 2 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open food runner roles right now.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Table Service | 33 | — |
| Food Safety | 29 | — |
| Bartending | 28 | — |
| Nonconformance Handling | 27 | — |
| Intellectual Property | 22 | — |
| Valuation | 22 | — |
| Cashiering | 21 | — |
| Customer Service | 15 | — |
| Opening and Closing Procedures | 8 | — |
| Hosting and Seating | 8 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site87%77 roles
- Not stated13%12 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 89 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on November 8, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 8 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Food Runner (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in hospitality & food, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.