Adam Bower Email & Phone Number

Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada

Halifax, Canada Area

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Managing the Outlets and Banquet departments in two hotels, ensuring profit through: revenue generating and marketing initiatives, strong supplier relations, efficient productivity, managing expenses, and tightly controlled cost of sales. Leading and developing a supervisory team with strategic development plans. Reporting to the director of operations, with direct lines to corporate, ensuring a return on investment for our owners, while maintaining strong employee and guest satisfaction scores. Executed servicing all food for Tall Ship Silva and Citadel Hill Fortress, and executing numerous outdoor concerts in Halifax, providing all food and beverage for up to 50,000 attendees. Assisted with designers, contractors, and opened a brand new restaurant, Harbour City Bar & Grill, recently named Halifax’s top restaurant of 2011 in the Chronicle Herald.

Jasper, Alberta, Canada

Overseeing all daily operations, including a complete renovation, rebranding and training staff accordingly, developing supervisory team, directing and supporting all colleagues of the restaurant, conducting meetings and performance reviews, preparing various financial/statistical reports, programming Micros, forecasting business levels, scheduling, ensuring standards are maintained, daily and bi-weekly payroll/gratuity reporting, preparing month end commentary, maximizing efficiency of colleagues, preparing and forecasting of revenue generating ideas, ensuring safety and cleanliness is maintained, and guest satisfaction and employee morale are high.

Responsible for managing and directing all colleagues of the restaurant and inn, interviewing, training colleagues, conducting meetings, evaluating colleagues, preparing various reports for the owner, ordering of food, liquor, chemical, and paper products, doing inventory, assisting guests, taking room reservations, checking in guests, assisting guests and restaurant patrons, creating and implementing a new communication system for the housekeeping/maintenance department, overseeing all activity in the restaurant and inn