Olive Garden Work Values

Daily Duties at Olive Garden:

I was chosen by my Director to open numerous restaurants: (three months at a time). I also traveled to many of our restaurants in our region to assist their teams, sometimes staying up to six months. Managed a two million dollar restaurant with volume of about 5,000 guests per week with approximately 110 employees. I trained numerous managers and employees. I created weekly employee schedules, managed vendor relationships by placing bar orders which grossed 250,000 yrly with a 5% monthly waste, as the Sales Manager, I also placed the order for the restaurant as the Culinary Manager and ran nine percent waste during month ending inventory placing weekly orders of a minimum of 15,000 weekly. I was over our saftey committee and had the lowest accidents in the region as well as the highest Total Quality (Inspection) scores 97.9. trained kitchen staff on food preperation, and everyone in the front of the restaurant on food and wine paring of new and old menu items, completed required reporting of management documentation, maintained lowest labor rate, acknowledged by directors and managers in other regionsfor unsurpassed training standards, consistent increase in sales, low waste and high TQ scores, and ensuring money went to the bottom line every month.

What they like about Olive Garden:

Working in an organization that is technologically advanced, creative, and innovative is critical in your assessment of hiring companies. Less important to you are stability of the organization, the length of time an organization has been in business, and the business' plans for the future. You prefer a fast-moving company that will take risks to achieve its goals and objectives. The length of time the company has been in business is irrelevant. Maintaining status quo is unnecessary. You thrive on change, uncertainty and the upside of potential business risks, especially those associated with innovation. Stability for the long haul is not nearly as important as is working in an atmosphere that is charged with a sense of urgency and constant change.

Tags

Restaurant Manager, Food and Beverage Director, Hotel Manager, Sales Manager

Skills

Business Development, Strategic Planning, Organizational Process Design, Reporting, Balance Sheet Responsibility, Microsoft Office , Bookkeeping, Team Oriented, Business Writing Skills, Business Analysis, Sales Force Automation, Sales Interpretation , Ecommerce Strategy and digital marketing channels optimization - SEO, SEM, email, affiliates - for high-profile accounts., Technology Solutions, Sales Support, Software Implementation, Requirements Analysis & Specification, Leadership

These are some of the questions we asked our climbers about their experiences with Olive Garden: