Francis Mitchell Email & Phone Number

Mesa, Az, Us

Phoenix, Arizona

Successfully opened Uncle Bear's Grill and Tap location in Surprise, AZ on time and within budget.Successfully opened New State of the Art Uncle Bear's Brewhouse Location in Phoenix. Currently Director of Operations over food and beverage for three grill and tap operations. Full P&L Responsibility through strong operations: hiring, training, food quality, ordering, payroll, service excellence, building maintenance and daily operations.

Sun City Lincoln Hills Community Association

Leader and operational manager for three outlets at this retirement community: Meridians Restaurant, the Sports Bar, and Kilaga Cafe. Increased sales by $420,000 over previous year. Developed strong owner and member confidence of the Sun City Lincoln Hills Community. Focused on Front of the House Management and service execution of all three outlets. Used strong forecasting and purchasing to provide consistency in the operations. Training improvements created strong service and member connections.Decreased costs controls for labor and beverage costs below targets set by the company.

Created corporation from business plan development through construction and opening of the business. Researched and developed WineStyles. a retail wine franchise. Secured SBA Funding, construction of facility, hiring and training, inventory control and purchasing, marketing of the business.

The goal of Virtuas was to be a leading education and professional services provider to Global 2000 companies. Our focus was training programmers in enterprise-ready open source technologies such as Spring, Hibernate, and Subversion. We created training programs for clients such as Bank of America, C/NET, GE and Agilent Technologies.

Desert Mountain Properties is an exclusive Private Community in Scottsdale, AZ with 2,500 homesites, 6 golf courses w/ 5 Clubhouses, tennis facilities, spa, and lifestyle services.Opened the Italian concept Constantino's at the $25 million Chiricahua Clubhouse. Achieved $3 million budget at second Clubhouse, Cochise/Geronimo as Assistant Club Manager.Strategic Planning and implementation of special events for up to 400 people at weddings. and up to 1,500 members at events.

Cultivated a successful region of seven Island's Restaurants that matched sales and profits of tenured restaurants, by consistently driving up sales for three years topping out at $13 million in yearly revenue. Developed and Implemented 10 week manager training program and Certified Trainer Program that improved operational performance.Opened nine new restaurants in three states.Maintained budgets and cost controls for food at 21%, operating expenses below 59%, EBITDA of 5-6%Directed training of 17-25 managers and 300-400 employees throughout region to achieve financial performance.