Robert Cassi Email & Phone Number

Charleston, Sc, Us

Summerville, Sc

Charleston, South Carolina Area

Recreated Airport Grille’s focus to local and seasonal foods; Established a “foodie” culture & restaurant in New Bedford; Developed specs and training standards for both BOH & FOH; Create a culture around food and service by featuring the first high end Steak House Selection on a menu in the South Coast; Developed standards for dry aging, curing & pickling

Developed and implemented new menu for an established restaurant; Recreated Midtown’s culture of food and service by featuring in-house curing processes, scratch made desserts & a focus on natural fresh ingredients; Crafted unique menus for events including specialty beer dinners; Hire and train all staff with an improved concentration on food and service; Managed all P&L for front and back of the house, lowering food cost by 8% and labor by 4%; Performed duties and functions of a General Manager including final server close outs, booking private functions and marketing

An American restaurant with focus on from scratch recipes & legendary service, 2.5M annualManaged a daily kitchen operations with a staff of 35; Maintained all in house recipes & all butchery; Hired fornewest location while retraining previous staff to new standards; Preserved consistent food cost & labor budgets whileimproving quality & new menus; Managed dessert production & prep items; Implemented wine training & events tomotivate staff which generated new, exciting guest experiences; Cut budget of restaurant operation by 10k a yearwhile searching for new vendors.

Upscale restaurant w/importance on seafood, freshest ingredients, & the finest beverages, 4.5MDeveloped daily menus & new recipes; Created special event menus i.e.: Valentine's & wine tasting; Helped trainnew hires on all kitchen operations including HACCP procedures; Kept nightly inventory helping to maintain foodcost; Consistently attended meetings, wine seminars & quality conferences at the corporate headquarters in Boston,MA; Helped receive orders checking for highest quality seafood & produce.