Patty Beck Dipwset Email & Phone Number

Las Vegas Metropolitan Area

Las Vegas, Nevada Area

Las Vegas, Nevada Area

A Restaurant Professional's Guide. This book will tell you the inside secrets of the business of selling wine in Las Vegas. It covers topics such as upselling techniques, proper service, entertaining anecdotes about wineries in Napa and Sonoma, writing a wine list, inventories, reports, matching wine with food, handling large parties, pre-shift training, glassware and many more topics. If you are in the business or want to be in the business...this book will help you make more and better sales.

Running wine program for Old Homestead SteakHouse. Bradley Ogdens closedin August 2012. Floor sommelier at Nero's Steakhouse until I received the offer to run the Bradley Ogden program. It's a wonderful and beautiful room. The steaks are incredibly good and Mike Gill has brought the food to an incredible level.

Manage restaurant staff of over 60 servers/bussers/runners/hostesses/cocktail servers/bartenders under Culinary Union labor contract and 4 assistant managers. Setup daily floor plans, scheduling, floor supervision, training, created ResPak user documentation, guest and VIP services, redesigned hostess program, plan large parties, ordering, corrective counseling, worked with Director in menu/service standards upgrade which resulted in $10 increase in PPA, preplanned all major events such as St. Valentine's Day and NYE. Kronos, MMS, setup Open Table, (StrattonWarren), ResPak, Infogenesis.

Scheduling, training, corrective counseling, guest relations, floor supervision, hiring, accounting for staff of 150 cocktail servers/bartenders/bar porters under Culinary contract, property wine list upgrade. Kronos, MMS (Stratton Warren), Infogenesis.

large party coordinator, predominantly Italian wine list, ordering, training. Increased beverage PPA $2.00 first month and substantially thereafter. Infogenesis, JDEdwards, Kronos, HotSos; Floor sommelier, staff training, predominantly French wine list, inventory. Micros, OpenTable.

Isis and Sacred Sea, created Wine Spectator award winning wine lists for Luxor Steakhouse, Isis and Sacred Sea, increased sales by 30% first year, maintained all property wine lists, training, produced documentation, ordering & purchasing. Acting General Manager Steak house for 4 months. Micros. Red Book. Stratton Warren.

Managed staff of 30 bartenders, 8 bar porters for conference center doing $4 million beverage sales per month. Included scheduling, ordering, training, on site supervisor. Micros, Stratton Warren.; Responsible for wine for MGM Grand property. Maintained all wine lists, inventory tracking, ordering. Worked Pearl, Nobhill and Brown Derby daily. Hotel staff training and documentation. Micros.Author: "How to Choose and Taste Wine"Teaches proper tasting techniques, provides grape/wine tasting & vintage charts, wine regions from around the world, explains how to read labels, over 600 internet sites listed.

Floor sommelier for Brown Derby, Pearl and Nobhill. Assisted Paul Ellis in creating/maintaining wine lists, managing inventories, bringing in new product, training, documentation, MMS/Stratton Warren, floor service, guest service

Napa Gourmet Room - 60 wines by the glass, over 1400 by bottle. Wine sales and service, maintain wine inventory with sommelier, helped design Santé and Wine Spectator awards wine list, created training materials, relief sommelier. Stratton Warren.