Experience

Grill Concepts, Inc.

• United States
• Restaurants
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Purchasing & Facilities Manager

  • Mar 2022 - Present

  Multi-unit and Multi-concept restaurant group featuring chef-driven gastropub, elevated American grill, and fine dining steakhouse concepts with units across 5 states Key accomplishments: - Utilized Pmix and item costing data to strategically re-engineer menus, directly resulting in a 7.6% increase in check averages without taking any price increases - Direct responsibility for over $8.8M in annual spend - Overhauled Gastropub concept’s draft beer program by implementing a comprehensive Core and Rotator strategy to bring in more craft and local offerings, directly leading to an increase in sales while simultaneously reducing costs by 10% - Oversaw RFP process for nationwide broadline distribution switch projected to yield 7.4% in annual savings while providing better quality and more reliable product availability - Worked with Hotel partners of managed and co-owned locations such as Marriott, Hilton, and Westin on substantial remodel, redesign, and procurement related projects Show less



Pinkbox Doughnuts

• United States
• Food and Beverage Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• F& B Purchasing Manager

  • Mar 2021 - Feb 2022

  Key accomplishments: - Led cross-functional New Restaurant Opening team, tracking and coordinating deliverables from all departments to ensure opening day deadlines were met which resulted in doubling the number of open units - Coordinated with executives from the Las Vegas Raiders and Vegas Golden Knights to develop officially licensed co-branded products to be sold in stadium and at our retail locations - Coordinated with health department to develop and obtain labeling approval on prepackaged products to be sold in C-Store and airport retail outlets - Oversaw implementation of predictive ordering program to streamline commissary operations, ensuring consistent fresh product for a 24/7 operation while reducing waste by over 15% - Rolled out a comprehensive signature beverage program that included developing private label artisanal roasted coffee for iced and hot drinks, training staff on proper recipes and barista techniques, as well as implementing upselling strategies that resulted in incremental sales increases of more than 15% - Leveraged supplier and distributor relationships to provide our company first right of refusal on products in our market that were experiencing severe supply chain shortages, insulating us from many of the out of stock pressures experienced by other operators - Regularly worked shifts in the retail operations to get a better idea of how initiatives developed at the corporate level impacted team members and customers to refine strategies and better alleviate pain points - Direct responsibility for over $4.5M in annual spend Show less



The Rock Wood Fired Pizza

• United States
• Restaurants
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Corporate Beverage Operations & Supply Chain Manager

  • Aug 2016 - Mar 2021

  Key accomplishments: - Leveraged supplier & distributor relationships to negotiate contract pricing, resulting in an 8% decrease in food costs in year 1 - Developed & rolled out a sales based theoretical food cost system resulting in an additional 4% reduction in food cost - Took over corporate beverage operations, inheriting a program coming off of 9 consecutive quarters of declining beverage sales & rising costs, & turning it into a program that saw costs reduced by 6% while simultaneously posting sustained sales increases of over 9% which according to Blackbox industry data was 1214 basis points higher than the Casual Dining segment average & 1194 basis points higher than Industry average - Developed most successful LTO in company’s 25 year history, resulting in a 25.6% YOY increase in sales, a 14.1% increase YOY in traffic, a 688% increase in social media profile visits, & an 82% ROI on marketing spend - Developed a Cause Marketing based LTO in partnership with Boston Beer Co. & Tito’s Vodka, raising thousands for charity partner - Wrote corporate training materials including bar standards books, recipe books for food & beverage, F&B menu rollout guides, as well as inventory & accounting system training guides; traveling to all corporate & franchise locations to conduct on-site trainings for management & team members - During COVID, leveraged supplier partnerships to stay on top of constantly changing state liquor laws to develop an innovative beverage strategy that was featured in both internal & external sales decks for companies such as Boston Beer, E&J Gallo, & Red Bull which led to 10% of sales coming from incremental beverage alcohol takeout purchases during the heart of lockdowns - Oversaw various aspects of Food and Beverage marketing including F&B photography, LTO development, production and distribution of printed POS materials, beverage marketing strategies, menu design and development, and social media content production Show less