General Manager Restaurant
Resume:
Melinda Redington
Food and Beverage
Point Pleasant Beach, NJ 08742
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Restaurant General Manager/ Restaurant Manager/ Bar Manager Cover Letter:
Dear prospective employer:
Possessing extensive experience as a Restaurant General Manager, FOH Manager, and Bar Manager, I am respectfully submitting my resume in response to the Managers position posted. You will find that I am uniquely qualified for this position based on my background and strengths. My successes over the years have been built upon a strong foundation in communications, integrity, loyalty, leadership, team-building and problem-solving expertise. I am highly skilled, hands-on and resourceful, driven and compelled to achieve excellence at every step – from developing and leveraging relationships, to ensuring high quality food and service, and implementing strategies for growth and success.
Bottom line: Relationship-building, perseverance, dedication and a commitment to excellence allow me to drive revenues and provide the leadership and competence this position demands. I look forward to meeting with you to review my qualifications and explore this position. In the meantime, I am happy to answer any questions you have. Thank you!
Sincerely,
Melinda Redington Enclosure: resume
Authorized to work in the US for any employer
Work Experience
Restaurant Manager
Atlantic Offshore-Point Pleasant Beach, NJ
May 2023 to Present
Front of the House Restaurant Manager. Closing Manager. We are a Whole sale, retail,
Fish Market and Restaurant. We also have 3 commercial fishing boats. Bar Manager
Broadway Bar and Grill- Owner Linda Dedreux-Point Pleasant Beach, NJ May 2022 to November 2022
Closing Bar Manager
Seasonal
• Managed all the nightly runnings of a High volume, fast paced, nostalgic Nautical Jersey Shore Bar alongside with the owner
Restaurant Manager
Windward Tavern- Owner Mortimer Nase-Bricktown, NJ June 2018 to April 2020
Was let go due to Covid-19
• Interviewing, Hiring
Staff/training policy development
• Scheduling.
• Supervising staff.
• Opening and closing of the Restaurant.
• Responsible for all the daily and nightly drops and Batch outs.
• Client/Vendor relations Food, Beer, and Liquor
• Planed and directed all Restaurant operations.
• Maintain high standards of service, food, health, and safety.
• Ensure the efficient and profitable business performance of the restaurant and the optimal utilization of staff and resources.
• Always made sure that guest satisfaction came first; from input on new menu and beverage items, to entertainment, and events.
• Communicated efficiently with the FOH, BOH, Bartenders and bussers, reducing “unnecessary” staff stress.
• Utilized schedule software systems to assign shifts ensuring all weekends, holidays, and special events were well staffed, increasing service capacity during peak hours.
• Treated all employees with respect increasing staff loyalty and reducing turn over by 20% Food and Beverage Supervisor/Assistant to the Executive Chef The Lavallette Yacht Club- Human Resources- Nancy Lopus-Lavallette, NJ March 2015 to November 2017
• Preformed a high volume dinner service Thursday though Sunday. All dinner specials were created by myself, and the Executive Chef.
• Maintained Club operations in line with the expressed wishes of the Board of Directors and House Chairmen, the clubs Bylaws and Rules and Regulation
• Planned lunch, dinner and bar menus, as well as special menus for in-house special events and catering.
• Properly labeled and stored all raw food ingredients including produce, meat, poultry, dairy and dry goods in the appropriate storage room, walk-in and freezer.
• Ensured all the staff understood expectations and parameters of the Yacht club goals and daily tasks.
• Actively involved in cost control, ordering, sanitation, maintenance of all the equipment, menu development, training, private dining and catering.
• Positively engaged with customers, offering menu information, providing suggestions and showing genuine appreciation for their business.
• Experienced every aspect of a private yacht club from all the positions and ideas, to members expectations.
• Hosted multiple Regattas monthly for more than two hundred plus club members. All catered from our Yacht club.
Raw Bar Manager/Bartender
Martells Tiki Bar LLC- Owner Scott Bassenger/ General Manager- Philip Troutmen-Point Pleasant Beach, NJ
March 2012 to November 2015
Raw Bar Manager at the Jersey Shore’s number one Tiki Bar. Worked in a high volume, fast paced setting in one of the busiest beach bars in New Jersey.
• Responsible for staffing, scheduling, ordering all seafood and liquor for the Raw Bar.
• Shucked and rapid speed with pristine knifing skills with Oysters and Clams and increased sales weekly.
• Ensured all seafood safety and health regulations always.
• Kept all beverages and seafood in top notch condition. Rotation at every shift by using our tag dates. All tag dates must be saved and stored for up to 6 months on Oysters and Clams.
• Preformed all weekly seafood inventory with the Executive Chef.
• Preformed all weekly liquor and beer inventory with the Bar Manager.
• Filed and documented all seafood tag dates.
• Handled all customer relations issues.
• Ran daily food and beverage sales with the bar manager.
• Over saw all the daily tasks of managing a high volume Raw Bar/Beach Bar Assistant Bar Manager/Head Bartender
The Stone Pony LLC- Owner Domonic Santana/General Manager- Eileen Chapmen-Asbury Park, NJ 1999 to 2005
• The Stone Pony is a world renown music venue in Asbury Park, NJ. The busiest high volume Nightclub in Monmouth county. The Stone Pony now inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame (only 3 bars ever inducted) as the best bar, nightclub, and music venue in the world! Part of the opening team for the famous club. Managed, Bartender, and catered to many famous musicians throughout the years, such as Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, to name a few.
• Worked event promotions such as The Today Show (with Matt Lauer and Katie Couric) feathering Bruce Springsteins, The Rising album debut. It was one of the biggest album releases of all time.
• Head Bartender.
• Served patrons in a fast amount of time, all our famous musical guests, ensuring they were taken care of with the utmost special treatment.
• Managed with the General Manager on the nights the Bar manager was off/ making daily and nightly deposits/and overseeing the operations of the club and staff.
• Marketed Private party's for our patrons and famous Musicians.
• Personal Assistant to our musical guests, making sure they had everything they need at the venue from hotel accommodations to transportation, and dining.
• Came up with great Stone Pony merchandising ideas and designs and concepts to bring in more sales and profit.
• Lighting, Audio, Sound, and DJ experience.
• Bartender on the month in the Asbury Park Press for my excellence in Bartending. Raw Bar Manager/ Bartender
Jenkinson's Bar LLC- Owner the Sterino family/General Manager-Joesph Karsage-Point Pleasant Beach, NJ
March 1987 to August 1999
• Trained and worked all stations of a fast pace kitchen on the jersey shore severing everything from the best seafood to greatest jersey shore favorites.
• Catered many events and beach themed parties.
• Promoted to Bartender.
• Made drinks and shucked clams, oysters and lobsters for hundreds of patrons daily.
• Promoted to Raw Bar Manager.
• Extensive and intensive knife training.
• Demonstrated technical knife skills showing the ability to open hundreds of clams and oysters neatly and quickly.
• Trained all bartenders for the Raw Bar restaurant, and service bar.
• Scheduling for 15 Bar employees.
• Ordering and managing all seafood purveyors.
• Met all health inspections standards and regulations with excellence from the state yearly.
• Documented all tag dates, and rotation of seafood and beverages daily.
• Worked side by side with the Executive Chef with all seafood costs, daily inventory, and percentages to ensure were on par with our sales.
• Handled all customer related issues in a fast pace environment.
• Wrote and designed many of our frozen drink menus, and drink specials.
• Ran the daily sales per shift with the General Manager.
• Closed and printed all credit card charges with the Bar Manager. Education
Associate in General
Point Pleasant Bch High School - Point Pleasant Beach, NJ 1988 to 1991
Associate in Liberal Arts
Ocean County College - Toms River, NJ
1995
Skills
• Listed through Resume (10+ years)
• Produce Experience
• Culinary Experience
• Profit & Loss
• Restaurant Management (10+ years)
• Food Safety
• Kitchen Management Experience
• Banquet Experience
• Supervising Experience
• Restaurant Experience
• Computer Literacy
• Bartending
• Management Experience
• Customer Service
• OpenTable
• Leadership
• Catering
• Host/Hostess
• Cooking
• Interviewing
• Office Management
• Food Preparation
• Merchandising
• Performance management
• Guest services
• Employee orientation
• Sanitation
• Hospitality
• Communication skills
• Micros POS
• Kitchen management
• Inventory control
• Store management
• Restaurant experience
• Cash register
• Property management
• Kitchen management
• Cooking
• Supervising experience
• Bartending
• Events management
• Personal assistant experience
• Chef
• Merchandising
• Hospitality
• Sales management
• Retail sales
• Cash handling
• Interviewing
• Leadership
• Conflict management
• Sales
• Office management
• Driving
• Menu planning
• Marketing
• Budgeting
Certifications and Licenses
TAM- Techniques of Alcohol Management
2016 to 2021
Certified to handle alcohol in the state of Nj
SafeServ Alcohol/ SafeServ Food Handler
March 2022 to January 2025
ABC card of Monmouth County Nj
Food Handler
Bartender License
Food Handler Certification
Driver's License
Assessments
Bartending — Proficient
December 2020
Understanding, pouring, and mixing drink orders
Full results: Proficient
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Additional Information
I am a non Smoker! Loyal, honest, reliable, and caring. Always on time and willing to work any area that is needed at anytime. I am a team player. Will work weekends and holidays. I take good care of myself, showing up to work looking professional, dressed in uniform ready to work. Thirty plus years of Restaurant Managerial, Bartending, Hospitality, and Catering experience. Can work every single aspect of this business. I am knowledgeable in both public restaurants and private clubs. References upon request!
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