Cedric Brown Email & Phone Number

Over 7 years of experience delivering revenues and profits by developing, marketing, financing, and providing appealing restaurant service while managing multiple locations.Additional skills include cost accounting, developing budgets, financial planning and strategy, decision making, process improvement, strategic planning, verbal/written communication, customer focus, management proficiency, managing profitability, quality focus, and knowledge of computers.

Listed skills include Food, Restaurants, Food Service, Menu Development, and 31 others.

• Restaurant General Manager

  Sterling Spoon Culinary Management

  Mar 2012 - Present - Greater Atlanta Area

  •Establishes restaurant business plan by identifying and evaluating competitors; preparing financial, marketing, and sales projections, analyses, and estimates.•Meets restaurant financial objectives by developing financing; establishing banking relationships; preparing strategic and annual forecasts and budgets; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions; establishing and monitoring financial controls; developing and implementing strategies to increase average meal checks.•Attracts patrons by developing and implementing marketing, advertising, public and community relations programs; evaluating program results; identifying and tracking changing demands.•Controls food and beverage purchases and inventory by meeting with corporate office staff; negotiating prices and contracts; developing preferred supplier lists; reviewing and evaluating usage reports; analyzing variances; taking corrective actions.•Maintains operations by preparing policies and standard operating procedures; implementing production, productivity, quality, and patron-service standards; determining and implementing system improvements.•Maintains patron satisfaction by monitoring, evaluating, and auditing food, beverage, and service offerings; initiating improvements; building relationships with preferred patrons.•Accomplishes restaurant and bar human resource objectives by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining management staff•Provide direction to employees regarding operational and procedural issues; interview hourly employees. Perform direct hiring, supervision, development and, when necessary, termination of employees.•Maintains safe, secure, and healthy facility environment by establishing, following, and enforcing sanitation standards and procedures; complying with health and legal regulations; maintaining security systems.