To further my career in the food service industry by effectively utilizing my extensive managerial expertise in All areas of restaurant operations. During my career, I opened over 30 corporate restaurants with varying concepts. Experienc: Feb 2008 - Present General Manager - T.G.I. Friday's * Managed all departments in this 3.75 million dollar unit. * As bar manager, I helped implement a late night happy hour that increased beverage sales by 30%, even as food sales were decreasing by 5%. * We became the second store in the northeast to achieve, by the vice president, the "Earn Your Stripes Validation", which states that all standards in the restaurant are excellent. Feb 2005 Oct 2008 Manager - The Cheesecake Factory * I was instrumental in the opening of the highest volume restaurant the Capital region has seen at a sales volume of 260,000/week. * As service manager, I was responsible for writing a schedule for over 100 employees and staffing the restaurant to allow us to maximize sales. * Our mystery shop surveys averaged 92%, which was in the top ten stores of the company.

Highlights:

• Budgeting
• customer service
• training
• dedicated
• compassionate
• driven