Fall 2025 Internship Program
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Job Description
About the Company:
Lettuce Entertain You is a culinary-driven restaurant company with a genuine commitment to its people. They welcome unique perspectives and nurture diverse talents across their 130+ locations, supported by their Culture of Caring. They participate in E-Verify.
Job Description:
Lettuce Entertain You is offering a Fall 2025 Internship Program in Chicago with a Restaurant Management focus. This is an abbreviated program designed to provide practical experience and educational insights into the restaurant industry.
Key Program Components:
• Educational Meetings: These bi-weekly meetings will be held from September 23 to December 16, 2025. Lettuce industry experts will cover key topics like:
• Restaurant financials
• Menu creation
• Marketing
• Other relevant industry topics
• Practical Restaurant Experience: Interns will be hired into an hourly role within one of Lettuce Entertain You’s restaurants in Illinois. The specific start and end dates for the practical portion will be mutually agreed upon by the restaurant operators and the intern. The hourly role will vary depending on the needs of the restaurant and the intern’s skill set (e.g., host, server, runner, busser, cook, etc.)
• Responsibilities:
• Participate in and complete designated program activities including but not limited to seminars, management feedback and group events
• Perform essential functions and key responsibilities listed in hourly job description (e.g., host, server, runner, busser, cook, etc.) for the assigned role determined by intern’s supervising manager at designated restaurant location
• Safely and effectively use and operate all necessary tools and equipment
• Work a variety of days and shifts including weekends and nights
• Effectively communicate in order to perform and follow job requirements in written and spoken direction
• Multitask calmly and effectively in a busy, stressful environment
• Work in a confined, crowded space of variable light, noise and temperature levels
• Ability to move and lift up to 10 pounds, frequently move and/or lift up to 25 pounds, and occasionally move and/or lift up to 50 pounds
• Ability to sit or stand for an entire shift and move safely through all areas of the restaurant, which may include stairs, uneven or slick surfaces
Requirements:
• Must be a currently a junior (or higher) in college/university studying hospitality, culinary arts, or business.
• Must be able to commute to the Lettuce Corporate office on Chicago’s far northside.
• Interns are responsible for their own housing and transportation.
Compensation:
• USD $16.20 – USD $20.00 /Hr.
