Michael Elton Email & Phone Number

Arizona, United States

Tucson, Arizona

Tucson, Arizona Area

Regional sales manager in Southern Arizona. Discovered new leads in the restaurant, hotel, and catering business for bulk oils, olives, and locally sourced provisions. Focused on customer service and on creating new revenue sources for the company.

Tucson, Arizona Area

Malcolm's Honey Company packages and distributes pure honey from the Sonoran Desert. Our bee keepers are located in southern Arizona and northern Mexico. Sonoran Desert honey is harvested from bees surrounded by mesquite trees, sahuaro cactus, acacia shrubs, and other native flora. We offer raw, unprocessed honey and filtered honey in retail ready packages of various sizes and applications to meet the consumers demands. Bulk sizes for restaurant or ingredient applications are also available.

Tucson, Arizona

•Greets customers and maintains good customer relations. •Responsible for the efficient and profitable operation of assigned store. •Manages daily operations of assigned store.•Looks for areas where improvements in service may be required; implements processes, procedures and/or changes to address these issues. •Coordinates sales promotion activities and prepares or supervises preparation of merchandise displays and advertising copy. •Performs and/or supervises employees engaged in taking of and controlling inventories, reconciling cash with sales receipts, keeping operating records, or preparing daily records of transactions. •Plans and prepares effective work schedules and assigns employees to specific duties. •Develops and trains future leaders.•Manages department staff to include: interviewing, hiring, training and development, delivering on-time performance appraisals, providing feedback, scheduling, counseling and terminating.•Orders merchandise or prepares requisitions to replenish inventory on hand. •Maintains contact with team members at all levels in the organization involved in store operations (i.e., Warehouse, Distribution, Regional Managers, Merchandising, etc.).•Ensures compliance of employees with established security, sales, and record keeping procedures and practices. •Accountable for controllable expenses, cash management, merchandising, and loss prevention. •Hires and trains store personnel and maintains employee relations.•Ensures that all federal, state, and company regulations and standards for product freshness, food safety, weights and measures, store safety, employee safety, refrigeration, and sanitation are met.•Responsible for staffing the store with friendly, customer oriented individuals who are qualified to meet customer needs. •Responsible for making sure employees are trained. •Plan and prepare work schedules and keep records of employees' work schedules and time cards.

Managed 3 Different Stores

Tucson, Arizona Area

Manage 12+ employees in a full service deli setting. Store offered a complete made to order pizza kitchen, a full time chef, made to order sandwiches, as well as a full deli, cheese, olive, and salad selection. Became regional trainer for Deli Managers in 2001. Became a member of the store management team in 2003 as PIC.

Southern Arizona

Supervised southern Arizona Safeway deli operations for 25 stores.