My role is to oversee both teams at The Mall Tavern in Notting Hill & The Stag in Hampstead. I have full autonomy on all menus, team hiring, building & training. I oversee all building management, standards & service style.

Assisting with a charity based in London to prepare food for homeless during the pandemic. I helped to organise the kitchen, store food correctly, prepare food & then hand out to homeless in Trafalgar Square. The charity also organised clothing plus advise on accommodate, addiction & welfare.

I was asked to return to The Stag. It was somewhere that meant a lot to me. It had many different types of business under one roof. Corporate events, weddings, parties, music, dinner parties and a busy front of house trading with great fresh food kitchen to busy bar with cocktails to good wines & craft beer. With a net £2M+ turnover. Also importantly I love the guest mix, atmosphere, busy trading & heart beat. It had lost 20% of its sales when I was away & I wanted to return it back. It worked and had its busiest years & biggest profits until 2020 when the pandemic hit. The pandemic was a new challenge to stay a float and again return

All day dining with food by Jesse Dunford Wood, who had previously won awards with Oliver Payton at The National Dining Rooms. I assisted with the new opening and all hiring for all front house positions. I oversaw the drinks list, including cocktails. I trained the team to deliver great service and worked in close partnership with the kitchen team to deliver a high standards gastro business which was quickly into profit & a much loved destination in west London. On opening I coordinated many press visits which resulted in great reviews from national press to local digital media.

The Stag can accommodate everything from weddings to a busy500 plus covers Sunday lunch service. The Stag has summer & December weekly turnovers of £45k to £65k + weeks with sales over £2million net per annum. Private parties for ITV, Tim Burton, Coldplay, Sony Music & AMV BBDO I with my senior team & Head Chef I oversee all menu changes for food & drink. Plus pricing & all P&L controls. I also recruit & train my teams who all come from good restaurant backgrounds. In the national Lockdown we maintained the businesses by offering an extensive takeaway & delivery business. When we re-opened under regulations, we utilized with state of the art covering to our outdoor space at both venues & had some record food sale weeks, which helped us to recover strongly. Many of my team have worked with me for years & I have a skill in team building, team focus & a great work place

Managed and trained at the flagship venue, The White Horse, Parsons Green. It had weekly high revenues of £140k in the summer. The White Horse had won many awards & seen as the best pub in London at this time. With a fresh food menu & a large craft beer selection. The White Horse had a separate restaurant, function room, and busy front garden. After my time at The White Horse I became the General Manager at The Temperance in Fulham & later The Washington, Belsize Park

Cluster Managed at 3 sites all owned by Urban Edge & Shoreditch business man James Goff. I was involved Eyre Brothers restaurant, The Light Bar and Hackney Central. My roles were duty management, service, training, recruitment, stock takes and marketing of new events. All different sites from high service at Eyre Brothers to a busy city bar next to Liverpool Street station at The Light Bar. I also was involved with The Furnace in Hoxton Square which was a pizza restaurant. The Eyre Brothers was my main focus. An award winning fine dining restaurant with relaxed service, a super culture, specialising in an Iberian menus all overseen by renown chef David Eyre who had famously opened The Eagle in Farringdon.

Group managed two of Leeds most popular destination venues. The Warehouse & Northern Light. Oversaw all venue management plus artist bookings, event organising and marketing. From music events, corporate & private events. Northern light could take in one event £40k In a multiple room venue with a capacity of 1400. It had a great profile within the whole area. The Warehouse is a Leeds institution with regular events and has hosted many famous bands and had regular income from student events to famous Saturday event in Vague & Speedqueen

Managed a high volume city centre bar with both multiple music led events with a bar, cocktail & tapas food offer. Busy 7 day a week operation over 3 floors with private rooms to hire and busy sales. Increased both popularity as an fun safe destination venue, standards & profit. Weekly turn over averaged £40k with some big event days netting £20k.

Managed a Hotel & private membership health club with bar & restaurant plus gym, exercise room, pool & hot rooms.

Trainee manager working all the departments from kitchen to front desk in a 4 star hotel in Harrogate. Crown Hotel.