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Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Pella, Iowa, United States

• Oversaw construction of business, responsible for procurement, and day to day issues that may come up during the construction process.• Oversee staff of 81 and 9 management staff• In charge of purchasing and licensing for pre-opening of business• Oversee and negotiated operational contracts• Oversee all aspects of operations (scheduling, ordering, invoice payment, inventory management, B2Bdeals and contracts, day-to-do operations)• Meet with fellow ownership about marketing strategies and budgets• Meet and negotiate with city officials, organizations, and businesses for advertising and/or joiningtogether to host special events• Negotiate/hire music talent for our Summer Music Series and for special events• Maintain/develop payroll and financial budgets• ServSafe Certified

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Area

Minnesota Twins High-A Affiliate

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Area

Oversee all aspects of food and beverage operations of 6 sports venues:⦁ Cedar Rapids Kernels (Minnesota Twins High A Minor League Team)⦁ Waterloo Bucks⦁ Prospect Meadows⦁ Tuma Soccer Complex⦁ Iowa Equestrian Center⦁ Triple Play ParkOverlook 21 managers and up to 350 seasonal staff.⦁ Created and had an accepted city bid with the city of Cedar Rapids, IA.⦁ Handle alcohol and food licenses for each venue along with contract negotiations with venue owners, food vendors, and third party food businesses that we partner with at different venues for special events.⦁ Create and implement budgets for each of my venue managers that coincide with my overall department budget.⦁ Create and implement a system of protocols for health, quality of service, cash handling, and speed of service.⦁ Create sales forecasting, and train managers on how to use the information to stay within their labor budgets, while still giving great quality service.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa

• Overlook two full-service restaurants, two retail stores, catering, vending, and one barista location. Overlook 6 managers and 52 employees. • Opened and trained all employees and managers for 2 new bar and grill restaurant concepts at LaGuardia Airport, and helped open 4 restaurant concepts at the Oakland Airport.• Designed and rolled out new curriculum for team members and managers.• Planned menus by consulting with chefs; estimated food costs and profits; adjusted menus.• Prepared restaurant financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.• Used cost-benefit analysis to evaluate current and potential vendors. • Streamlined the onboarding process for new hires, and lowered turnover by 16%. This won us an award for the 2017 financial year for the lowering of our turnover by the highest percentage in the company. We also won an award in 2018 for best COGS % vs Budget. • Create, launch, and direct the team training of streamline operations including; establishing new processes and procedures impacting overall operational efficiency; revamping back office reporting practices and ensuring accuracy of financial data. • Building cohesive teams with the front and back-of-house teams to achieve common sales and service goals. • Training managers in new systems and processes; overseeing hiring practices; coaching and mentoring managers and support teams in service standards and performance improvements; and educating on effective use of POS reports to track sales, profit centers and inventory to aid in forecasting and planning to eliminate waste and maximize profits. • In the process of doing procurement with different vendors, training, location development, and hiring of more management. Building a third restaurant, a third retail area, and a second barista location. This will put the total areas of sales to eight.

Coralville, Iowa

- Execute contracts, orders, and other documents in the name of the association.- Custodian of the funds, securities and financial records of the association. Create Budgets. -Enforcement of bi-laws.-Presides over meetings of the board and the membership.

Coralville, Iowa

-ServSafe Certification for food and alcohol. -$5.6 million dollar yearly sales volume.-Acted as Front of House manager until recently promoted to Heart of House Manager.Front of House ManagerManaged a staff of 44 servers, 9 bartenders, and 13 hospitality.Performed weekly inventory, payroll, scheduling, and ordering.Maintained weekly bar variance less than 1%.Achieved being consistently under department spending budget, and reaching inventory turn goals.Heart of House ManagerManaged a staff of 28 cooks.Performed weekly inventory, ordering, budgeting, and weekly sales forecasts. Responsible for high volume day to day operations, scheduling and staff selection, and payroll.Enforce all state, company, and Ecosure policies and procedures for sanitation and food quality.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Area

-Conduct weekly management meeting to ensure organizational efficiency.-Optimize profits by controlling food, beverage, and labor costs on a daily basis.-Continually monitor restaurant and take appropriate action to ensure food quality and service standards are consistently met.-Efficiently resolve problems or concerns to the satisfaction of all involved parties.-Built sales forecasts and schedules to reflected desired productivity targets.-Initiated negotiations regarding vendor contracts and kept updated records of contracts. -Staff recruitment and development

Savannah, Georgia Area

-ServSafe Certification-Directly schedule, train, and motivate staff of 29 servers and hosts, and oversee 56 staff overall.-Create and hold training meetings for entire restaurant staff.-Create training action plans for each individual employee.-Executes weekly food and liquor inventories/costs and ordering at the GM’s request and is accountable for completion.-Be proficient with industry recognized food safety standards-Operate within predetermined budgets for cost effective operations-Pass all health inspections conducted by the local governing authority-Complete weekly food inventory counts-Create financial reports for the area supervisor.

Keokuk, Ia

-Awarded by Subway for Highest Sales Growth in 2012 in the Iowa Development Territory which includes 256 stores.-Still maintained a positive sales growth average from Jan 2013-Until 08/02/2013 End Date-Customer Experience Survey Summary score of 92/100 average for the store in the last 3 months, and an 89/100 average in my last 6 months. -Created local marketing plan Getting involved in the community by giving speeches to local schools about how to properly fill out applications and job etiquette, and having it published in local newspaper. Visited local businesses and organizations to figure out exactly how Subway could fit their personalized business and event catering needs.-Schedule, train, motivate, and supervise staff of 23 part-time Sandwich Artists.-Monitor daily and monthly receipts and expenditures.-Optimized profits by monitoring cost of goods, and effectively communicating with staff regarding costs.-Communicate with store and corporate management regarding sales targets and profit strategies.-Prepared and submitted weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports to the owner.

Fayette, Iowa

Marketed sports concessions for Upper Iowa University. -Conducted information gathering (polls, questionnaire, evaluation of sales figures), which resulted in the removal and new sale of items in sports concessions.Promotional advertising for Upper Iowa University catering department. -Overview of inventory, ensured product quality, and the completion of daily goals. -Implemented rotating break system for cafeteria workers which resulted in $1596 of saved labor costs a month.

Waterloo, Iowa Area

Tutoring 42 ESL (English as a Second Language) students in English. -Receive and address complaints by international students on campus. -Listened to and organized issues brought to the university by the international student body. -Guide international students in adjustments to American culture. -Host events to get international students more involved in campus life. -Planned and organized ice breaker events and campus socials, which led to easier social integration of the international students into the campus student body.

Greater Chicago Area

Received E3 Rank from E1 after first month for exceptional performance. Honorable Discharge