SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS At the age of sixteen I began my career in the food service industry in the Charlotte North Carolina market as a cook for the Pizza Hut brand and by age eighteen my career elevated into restaurant management as an assistant manager for Spartan Foods "Hardees" brand for an approximate two year tenure before moving on to become a general manager for "Golden B Enterprises" Burger King" brand and by the mid nineties took my first launch into entrepreneurship as the owner of " Players Ballroom" a billiard and night club venue in the Charlotte market . At age forty-six I have a vested thirty years of corporate food service management and business entrepreneurial experience. Through this experience I have become a very seasoned leader with very strong team development skills system execution & implementation P&L preparation & interpretation sales & customer base building and the importance of the overall customer experience . Work of experience MATTHEWS BUSINESS GROUP LLC