David Gary Email & Phone Number

Santa Monica, California, United States

Los Angeles County, California, United States

Wine Consultant

Santa Monica, California, United States

Santa Monica, California, United States

Santa Monica, California, United States

Beverly Hills, California, United States

Responsible for curating an award wining wine list focusing on the best Italian and American Wines, conducting daily wine discussions and tastings with staff and vendors, offering wine service to guests nightly, designing outlet specific beverage lists, maintaining inventory control, achieving monthly financial goals and growing the list of allocated wines,

Beverly Hills, California, United States

Los Angeles, California

Responsible for curating an an award wining wine list with over 300 labels focusing on the best Italian and American Wines, conducting daily wine discussions and tastings with Culina and Vinoteca staff during line up, offering wine service to guests nightly, designing outlet specific beverage lists with wine training quarterly for department meetings, hosting wine dinners in Culina with Paul Hobbs, Dominic and Amy Chappellet, Dick and Jenny Dore and other wine focused events. Recently was responsible for rolling out our new core wine and spirits offerings. Procured new core mandated wines for 2020, launched new beverage lists along with POS changes and staff training for Windows Lounge, In-room dining, Cabana and banquets. Coordinated , orderly stock depletion and replacement.

Westlake Village, California

West Los Angeles Sales Representative in charge of on and off prem. accounts.

Beverly Hills - Venice

Maintaining wine cellar of 400 different wines, receiving wines and organizing them, communicating with Head Sommelier regarding wine additions/subtractions, low-counts, vintage changes and tasting new wines to be considered for the list

Calabasas, California, United States

Responsible for managing, driving and overseeing all operational aspects of the restaurant was the central point of contact for restaurant at all times responsible for clearly distilling information and communicating to staff and owner, managed, led and mentored staff, created training programs, sidework check out sheets for all front of house staff, interviewed, screened and recruited job applicants, coached, mentored and trained Staff. Created a positive work environment with high moral and productivity. Performed performance reviews in front and back of house. Set and monitored sales forecast and profitability reports, increased sales and guest check average, maintained budgeted revenues and reviewed P&L and acted on all variances, kept POS system up-to-date.