Sales Manager

Chris Curlis

Email: ********@************.***

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City: Lumberton

State: NJ

Zip: 08048

Country: USA

Phone: 609-***-****

Skill Level: Any

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Primary Skills/Experience:

Experienced restaurant professional with over 10 years of experience in both FOH and BOH operations. I am detail-oriented with a passion for superior hospitality, food quality, and cost awareness. I consider myself an innovative leader, and pride myself on team building and driving top-line sales through execution.

Educational Background:

High School Dipolma from University of Arizona, Phoenix AZ 1/2001 to 5/2002 (Business Administration/Management)

Job History / Details:

Summary

Experienced restaurant professional with over 10 years of experience in both FOH and BOH operations. I am detail-oriented with a passion for superior hospitality, food quality, and cost awareness. I consider myself an innovative leader, and pride myself on team building and driving top-line sales through execution.

Highlights

Effectively managed food and beverage costs through proper ordering, one-on-one coaching sessions, and implementation of cost improvement initiatives.

Creative, "outside the box" thought process when focusing on driving sales.

Consistently work with a sense of urgency.

Experienced in both low and high volume environments

Extensive beer, wine, and liquor knowledge.

Serve Safe certified.

Self-motivated with great time management skills.

Passion for hospitality and soliciting guest feedback on performance.

Accomplishments

I have been involved with launching a Craft Beer Menu that is considered to be a first in a casual themed dining establishment, which increased beverage sales by 3.5 percentage at it's inception.

I exceeding expected gross profit for 14 quarters consecutively by a minimum of 5 percentage .

Trained three managers on necessary skills to achieve the Assistant General Manager promotion through daily projects, one-on-one coaching, and performance evaluations.

Experience

February 2003 to January 2006

Cracker Barrel Mt. Laurel, NJ

Associate Manager

Conducted analysis to address excessively high food costs, low staffing levels, and a sharp decline in sales. Through this analysis, I was able to bring food costs within company expectations, bring the restaurant to a goal of 110 percentage staffed to eliminate overtime, and help to bring sales 1.25 percentage over last year's in two quarters.

March 2006 to Current

The Bock Group dba Uno Chicago Grill Deptford, NJ

Assistant General Manager

Responsible for all aspects of operations. These include:

Sales planning

Scheduling, hiring, training of all new employees

Ordering all food, beverage, small wares, and paper/janitorial supplies.

In charge of all administrative duties including bill paying, employee and manager performance evaluations, setting up POS functions.

Weekly food and beverage inventories.

Holding monthly departmental meetings to promote cost improvement ideas and philosophies.

June 1995 to May 1999

Multiple - Pacific Grill, Applebees, Honda of Burlington

Various

Education

2003 University of Arizona Phoenix, Arizona

Bachelor of Science Business Administration/Management

Achieved 3.86 GPA and graduated at the top 10 percentage of my class.

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