Catering management employment direction: the catering industry has been the leading industries, is essential to people's lives, but also the closest to people's lives in the industry. With the establishment of large hotels and guesthouses across the country, the increasing development of tourism, the catering industry as a sunrise industry is no longer in people's traditional thinking of simple cooking and eating, and gradually evolved into a high-grade fashion consumption concept. At present, the development of the catering industry has become increasingly upscale and perfect, and at the same time, the demand for practitioners is also increasing, especially the demand for higher cultural level of personnel is more imminent. In order to improve China's catering industry managers, technicians, the level of knowledge and professional competence, and actively face China's accession to the World Trade Organization catering industry facing opportunities and challenges, and to promote the implementation of the implementation of the academic certificate and vocational qualification certificates and the implementation of the system of equal emphasis on the process of the system of labor and employment access system in the whole of society, the China Culinary Industry Association and the National Self-study Examination Committee Office decided to cooperate in the national self-study higher education examination and ******. Examination of catering management specialties and *** with the implementation of China's catering industry professional manager qualification examination.