Experience

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  Self Employed

  • Proprietor

    • Oct 2009 - Present

    High volume restaurant and F&B management:Streamlining and improving efficiency across all lines of key deliverables such as staff, facilities, costs, finance, stock and inventory controls and many other areas that make up the profitability matrix in this type of operation.

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  Full House Taverns

  • Operations Manager

    • Dec 2008 - Oct 2009

    JOB DESCRIPTION: Please See attached Job DescriptionREASON FOR LEAVING: Operational Reasons.

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  Moyo Ushaka Pier

  • Executive Head Chef

    • May 2007 - Dec 2008

    JOB DESCRIPTION: Managing high volume kitchen, including service, production, staff wages, administration, food safety, food quality, maintaining agreed budgets for spending, cost of sales, labour, supervising service as a team member, Food safety, Health and safety, Health and HygieneREASON FOR ...

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  The Big Easy

  • Executive Head Chef

    • Jun 2006 - Dec 2006

    Full control of back of house operation, including but not limited to:Staff hiring and managementPurchasing - food including live seafood.Cost controlInventory controlHygieneQuality ControlRecipe development and implementationMenu item production - smoking cycles and fresh ingredient utilisationPOS input and ingredient control systems.

  • Executive Head Chef

    • Jun 2006 - Dec 2006

    JOB DESCRIPTION: Managing high volume kitchen, including service, production, staff wages, administration, food safety, food quality, maintaining agreed budgets for spending, cost of sales, labour, supervising service as a team member, CMI food safety, Health and safety, Health and HygieneREASON FOR LEAVING: Family emergency necessitated return to South Africa

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  Hard Rock Cafe - London

  • Kitchen Manager

    • Oct 2005 - Jun 2006

    JOB DESCRIPTION: Managing team of 6o+ people, all areas of production, service and execution. Includes costing, purchasing, labour control, hiring and firing, training, outside catering for approx. 1000 people a month. Administration such as budgeting, stock control, inventories, labour spend per...

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  Kusina Deli, Gateway Theatre of Shopping, Durban

  • General Manager

    • Nov 2001 - Jan 2005

    JOB DESCRIPTION: Cash management, staff management, cost management, ordering of food, stock rotation and daily running of the kitchen and front of House.Payroll management.REASON FOR LEAVING: Need further stimulation, as job became routine.

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  News Cafe - Musgrave

  • Kitchen Manager

    • Apr 1998 - Jun 1999

    JOB DESCRIPTION: Food ordering, stock control, staff management, cash management,stock rotation.REASON FOR LEAVING: Sale of business resulted in a retrenchment package was offered and accepted.; Manager, became General Manager after two years.Became partner, after buying shareholdingJOB DESCRIPTI...

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  Sharestaff - London

  • Forklift operator and general staff driver

    • Jul 1996 - Aug 1997

    in various warehouses as a sourced temporary worker.

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  NAME OF COMPANY

  • Forklift driver and driver

    • Jul 1996 - Mar 1997

    Counterbalance forklift driver - indoor and outdoorReach truck driver - indoorMovement of breakable goods withing the warehouse complex and in the loading and receiving bays.

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  Cattleman Steakhouse

  • FNB Manager

    • Jan 1994 - Jul 1996

    JOB DESCRIPTION: Staff Management, casual and permanent cash management, stock control.

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  Stax Steakhouse

  • Manager

    • Oct 1988 - Apr 1992

    Cash management, stock control, stock purchase and customer liaison. REASON FOR LEAVING: Store was sold.