Manager General

Grayson Grant

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

Address: **** *******

City: Jonesboro

State: AR

Zip: 72401

Country: USA

Phone: 870-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $30,000

Primary Skills/Experience:

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Educational Background:

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Job History / Details:

Grayson Grant1217 Glendale Street, Jonesboro, AR 72401

**********@********.*** * Home 870-***-****, Cell 870-***-****

Summary of Qualifications

Energetic General Manager with twelve years experience running highly popular and successful Memphis restaurants. Demonstrated ability to maintain a very employee and customer friendly operation resulting in many loyal employees and repeat customers. Especially skilled at planning and organizing a production and service operation, building trust and relationships, and developing and motivating employees. Excellent safety record.

Experience

City of Thornton Golf Course, Thornton, CO

Food and Beverage Manager

Responsible for management of bar, kitchen, food-bar and beverage cart operation. Manage entire food preparation cycle including planning and ordering, inspection of incoming products and inventory control. Assisted with scheduling, and execution of all tournaments, events and banquets. Assisted in the development and testing of standard recipes for all dishes. Hired, trained, scheduled and supervised employees. Ensured compliance with all food safety laws.

Helped build and maintain a large base of return customers

Kept maintenance costs down by doing repairs

Member of Team of the Year for City of Thornton

Worked weekends and holidays to meet customers needs

Memphis Pizza Cafe, Memphis, TN 1997 to 2010

General Manager

Responsible for day to day operations for 1.2 million in annual sales pizza restaurant. Hired and trained all employees. Prepared weekly schedule for managers, servers and kitchen crew. Organized teams for lunch and dinner shifts. Maintained inventory. Handled all accounts receivable and payable. Conducted employee meetings. Fielded and resolved any complaints from customers and employees. Represented restaurant at various charity events.

Started at entry level and promoted to manager during first year

Promoted to General Manager in 2000

Instrumental in opening two of the five Memphis Pizza Cafes

Helped design layouts of two of the restaurants

Assigned to various underperforming stores to troubleshoot problem areas and increase profits

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Increased sales by nearly 50% in one store attaining profit margin of 17%

Identified sources of lost revenue such as employee theft, portioning, and corrected problems

Restaurant voted best in its class every year while GM

Developed computer program using SQL used by other managers to inventory and food cost

Education

University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, 1994 to 1997

Completed 85 semester hours of college credits

Skills

Operations Financial Management

Performance/Profit Improvement

Inventory Control, Budgeting, Accounts Payable

Relationship Team Building

Cash Management Optimization

Training, Mentoring Staff Development

Customer Retention Strategies

All-city/All-state in high school (jazz bass), Professional Musician

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