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Chicago, IL, US

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Cultivate and grow revenues for Gordon Food Service truck deliveries for Illinois and Wisconsin. This role is remarkably similar to what I did at the Illinois Restaurant Association except I play a more direct role in working with restaurant clients to help them grow their sales while decreasing costs. If you own or operate a restaurant, etc. in Illinois.

Greater Chicago Area

Qualify and recruit Lifestyle, Food and Beverage brands to participate in Chicago Gourmet, presented by Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits of Illinois.-- Executed all aspects of the sales process recruiting and retaining strategic partners for one of the premier food and wine festivals in America-- New sponsor acquisition: broadline foodservice.

Greater Chicago Area

Responsibility was to manage, develop and grow our base of Illinois Restaurant, Bar and Foodservice operators and their Suppliers.As Director of Membership:-- Grew membership dues revenue double digits annually for 6 straight years-- Grew non-dues revenue more than 20% annually-- New member acquisition and retention of: large corporate restaurant chains.

Greater Chicago Area

Exclusive source of History Trees by artists Bruce Burton and Drew Wasserman. History Trees are the visual story of your favorite sports team or musical genre and soon to be cities. Started by registering the domain name franchisetrees.com in March of 2007, followed by tracking down my high school swim coach who has been creating family trees of music and.

Upper Midwest

Natura Water is a completely eco-friendly water purification system that eliminates the need for restaurants/hotels to order, store, refrigerate or dispose of bottled water. It comes with a luxury bottle package for serving purposes and the bottles are reusable, dishwasher safe and made from recyclable glass. Currently the only system endorsed by the Green.

Greater Chicago Area

We started working on what is now Green Planet™ in 2005 right near the United Center in Chicago. Our experience as specialty beverage distributors put us in the unique opportunity to maybe change the world of plastics—and we are starting with the well scrutinized bottle of water. Our first bottles rolled off the production line in Chicago in September.

Greater Chicago Area

Developed a Customer Relationship Management tool that became the backbone of the companies' communication with their Hotel, Restaurant and Sub-Distributor Clients all over the country.Grew the Customer Service Innovation (CSI) team from a one-man-show to a team of three by recruiting and developing talented individuals. Trained and led this team to become.

Greater Chicago Area

I managed all aspects of a gourmet food shop and full service catering operation in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. I was charged with scheduling/managing a team of 40, selling and executing off-site catering and assisting our flagship restaurant with special events.

Greater Chicago Area

Managed all customer communication for a growing Specialty Coffee and Tea Distributor located right near the United Center in Chicago. In addition to these core duties I checked in the morning Intelligentsia Coffee delivery, assisted drivers with loading their trucks, managed and took care of customer requests/problems, received and stocked LTL deliveries.

Greater Chicago Area

Charlie Trotter's is a Five Star Five Diamond restaurant located in the Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. Chef/proprietor Charlie Trotter gave me a chance to join his team less than a week after the terrorist attacks of September 11th. I was a service professional performing all "front of house" functions as well as participating in several of Chef.

Greater Chicago Area

Participated in the then-new LEYE Internship Program under the direction of Cheryl Symank. Attended breakfast and other meetings with senior partners and performed weekly restaurant ratings while working full time for Ben Pao and Wildfire Restaurants.

Greater Chicago Area

Bachelor'S, Hospitality Management

Graduate Credit

Activities and Societies: Traveled through France, Italy and Switzerland for five weeks with students and faculty from UNLV Harrah Hotel.

High School

Activities and Societies: Swim Team 1993-1997