Food Safety Service
Resume:
YVONNE
JOHNSON
Gainesville GA 30506
Cell: 754-***-****
***************@*****.***
Career Focus:
Customer Development Specialist-Gordon Food Service, with more than 10 years of experience, developing a 4 million-dollar sales route. Bringing on new customers, penetrating their accounts, advising them on their menus. Showing new items to add to their menu, how to plate within a restaurant, or how to package it to go. Helping with their food-cost, an advising them on a menu price. Educating the customer on market trends, and holding them to their credit terms.
I work very close with several national manufactures, brokers, and helped sell their products to regional chains in South Florida, and metro Atlanta. I worked with small business up to 10 units or more with menu analysis, labor saving solutions, code compliant products. We assisted in designing LTO’s that helped sell our products, assisted in creating marketing strategies, waitstaff promotions etc, all in efforts to boost sales for my clients.
Restaurant Manager: Pollo Tropical, Supervise the implementation of company policy, for recipes, food quality, cash handling procedures, food safety, training future managers.
U.S Army, Kitchen Supervisor : My job was to develop menus within a specific budget. My job was enforce food quality standards, food safety standards, develop and mentor my subordinates to do the same.
Summary of Skills
I am a great communicator. I have a large amount of food knowledge- I have worked in restaurants and dining facilities in many different positions. I have trained people of various experience levels. I have advised restaurant owners and operators.
Organization-I have had to follow through on how to comply with food safety regulations, different tasks for 40 different customers on how to grow their sales, and lower their food with different tasks.
Disciplined- I have had to grow my sales route. I have advised customers on when and how to use social networking to grow their sales. I stay focused until a sales goal is achieved, and I am self motivated.
Computer skills-Iam comfortable with Word, Power Point, excel, and I have used several different CRM platforms.
Bilingual- I can read, write, speak, and present in Spanish and English.
Achievements: I grew sales route from $260,000 to $4.5 million in 5 years. Trained new hires to do the sales job. I was recognized as Soldier of the Year in 1998 and soldier of Quarter 4 times .
Client interface-Bring new customers on board, manage accounts payable, and teach them about products that can save them time, money, and lower labor costs.
Sales Contest winner: I wont a trip to Salinas California, where I was able to attend the Markon, produce operation, from the ground to the customer plate.
Professional Experience
Gordon Food Service
April 2012 to August 2022 Customer Development Specialist Atlanta GA- Miami Fl
Acquire new customers, sell food, penetrating, maintain accounts payable, and train new sales representatives
Pollo Tropical
October 2004 to June 2012 General Manager Assistant Manager Miramar, FL . Enforced food safety and quality at restaurant, according to company standards. Make schedules according to store sales, and achieve allotted labor matrix goals.
U.S Army
June 1997 to October 2004 Kitchen Supervisor Manheim Germany. I started as a cook, and moved through the various kitchen positions, until I managed a facility. There my job was to develop and implement menus. Enforce quality and safety standards, train soldiers on all aspects of food safety and cooking techniques.
Olive Garden
1995-1997 One of my first job as a cook, I ran appetizer and grill station. I learned how to navigated my way through a busy kitchen while getting the job done.
Education
General Prado High School (Peru)
Pikes pike Community College, Culinary Arts and Hospitality and Food Management.
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