Michael Weiser Email & Phone Number

Michael Weiser New York, NYProfessional event catering and food service manager, with over 14 years experience in Manhattan in high-end, chef-driven catering, full-service cafe operations, quick-serve kitchen and service management, and upscale French bistro and wine bar operations. My responsibilities have included event sales and booking, onsite supervision, hiring and managing FOH and BOH personnel, payroll management, customer service and retention, and administrative responsibilities for communications, estimates, proposals, P & L reporting, inventory control and ordering, vendor relations, and much more. With a passion for planning and coordination, and a love of good food, my favorite activities are introducing new clients to the spectacular flavors and dynamic culinary expertise provided by Chef Jacqueline Frazer and her Command Performance Team, and seeing the delight on clients and guests faces when they experience "Truly Delicious Food", from one of the most capable professional culinary and catering service teams in the New York area.

Listed skills include Event Planning, Event Management, Customer Service, Management, and 26 others.

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  Director Of Operations

  Command Performance Catering, Inc.

  Oct 2001 - Present - New York City, Ny

  Working closely with the Executive Chef/Owner, my responsibilities include event booking and management; event budgeting and P&L reporting; hiring and coordination of service and kitchen personnel; provisioning support, transportation and delivery; new business development with online resources and follow-up of inquiries; telephone and in-person client contact; management of communications, proposals and billing; payroll management and interface with ADP payroll services. Recent achievements have included launching a prepared food delivery operation, geared to busy professionals with families, who don't have time to shop and prepare nutritious, high-quality meals for themselves every day.Prior experience includes Corporate and Marketing Communications, Promotion Marketing, and Design, as a graphic designer and art director, creative director, and director of creative services, with agencies and design firms in St. Louis, Chicago, and New York. NYC DOH Safe Food handling Certificate #08-10273

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  Washington University In St. Louis

  Marketing Communications & Advertising Design