Senior kitchen operations

• Feb 2023 - Present

We are here to elevate delivery food. By selecting the most beloved recipes from global food hotspots. By creating memorable flavors, styles and textures. By developing meals that are perfectly fit for delivery. We are here to elevate delivery food. By selecting the most beloved recipes from global food hotspots. By creating memorable flavors, styles and textures. By developing meals that are perfectly fit for delivery.

Senior kitchen development & expansion

• Jan 2022 - Feb 2023

Huuva Kitchens turn local communities into culinary hotspots by catering the best dishes from the hottest restaurants worldwide. Lunches, brunches, suppers or dinners. Local favourites and international specials. Pop-ups and fresh drops. With Huuva, there’s always something new that you can mix-and-match to be delivered to your door with superior convenience and quality. Our kitchen technology enables our chefs to focus on the most important thing in the kitchen - the quality and joy of making the best dishes. All curated and cooked by people with the passion for great food and appetite for what comes next. This is the power of the most advanced kitchen platform ever created. - Building, developing and managing robust and scalable kitchen operations based on data, customer feedback and own observations to meet the quality and kitchen operations targets. - Operational management of kitchen operations projects, including but not limited to new kitchen openings, new restaurant brand implementations, procurement, and process development. - Enabling the efficient scaling of Huuva’s kitchen operations in Germany, starting from Berlin. - Creating Huuva kitchens as motivating and safe workplaces for talented venue managers and kitchen crew. - Hiring, training and leading a team of venue managers and supporting them to lead their kitchens independently without you micro-managing every detail. Identifying and delivering the most interesting food experiences to customers by implementing up-and-coming culinary trends and hero restaurant brands in Huuva kitchens. Communicating Huuva OS feature requests and feedback from the kitchens to the product team and vice versa. Show less

Senior Kitchen Operations

• Jan 2020 - Jan 2021

Lani is a young Food-Tech Startup in Berlin with the ambition to revolutionize the European convenience food market. Lani Coffee is the destination for sustainable food and coffee. - Product development - Direct contact with supply chain - Manage staff task distribution - Manage staff schedule - Staff training - Ensure staff follows system procedures and operating protocols - Manage kitchen operations - Ensure safety and proper food handling in kitchen HACCP - Ensure compliance with health and safety regulations - Maintain up-to-date inventories of restaurant supplies - Control kitchen and restaurant costs - Monitor revenue and PNLS - Ensure restaurant service is according to guidelines - Monitor and manage the restaurant budget - Coordinate requirements for private events and catering Show less

Senior Operations Manager

• Aug 2018 - Nov 2019

- Manage staff task distribution. - Manage staff schedule. - Staff training. - Ensure staff follows system procedures and operating protocols. - Manage kitchen operations. - Ensure safety and proper food handling in kitchen HACCP. - Ensure compliance with health and safety regulations. - Maintain up-to-date inventories of restaurant supplies. - Control kitchen and restaurant costs. - Monitor revenue and PNLS. - Menu quality and costing per season. - Manage changes to menu in coordination. - Ensure restaurant service is according to guidelines. - Monitor and manage restaurant budget. - Coordinate requirements for private events and catering. Show less

Operations Manager & expansion

• Feb 2018 - Aug 2018

Keatz is the first “delivery-only” restaurant chain focusing exclusively on food which is made for delivery. We are currently operating in 2 countries with 7 delivery-only food brands from fresh salads to authentic Thai food, which are sold on food delivery marketplaces such as Delivery Hero, Deliveroo, and others. - Responsible for expansion kitchen lead to Barcelona - Responsible for daily operations - Responsible for ordering and performing inventory assessments for six restaurants brands - Hiring kitchen team and take care of on boarding and continuous training - Ensuring that all hygiene and HACCP standards are maintained - Coordinate weekly Catering's - Coordinate stock and storage management to achieve the target F&B cost - Sourcing and supplier relation management - Staff schedules Show less

Events and Marketing Consultant

• Oct 2017 - Feb 2018

- Manage daily social media activity. - Created a series of events to promote the brand and locations around Berlin. - Optimized website to bring increase traffic to the online shop. - Manage customer database with profile information, order data and contacts for Mail Chimp. - Created a line of products for the stores and online. - Brought GooglePixel 2 as a private client for an event at the Roastery. - Improvements of recipes and menu choices. - Weekly meetings to discuss upcoming events and current events. Show less

Management Consultant

• Aug 2017 - Oct 2017

Head of day-to-day operations responsible for ordering planning and implementation optimization of all processes and workflows. Employee coordination and planning recruiting, instruction and training of employees. - Daily management of prep, ensuring prepared stations for service. - Responsible for the acceptance of goods deliveries and inventory - Ensuring HCCAP standards. - Weekly Staff rosters, time keeping and management of kitchen and front of the house team. - Training in of new employees. - Improvements of recipes & menu choices. Show less

Events Manager

• Oct 2004 - Jul 2015

Responsible for planning, running and directing events for corporate executives, political figures, diplomats and other foreign dignitaries. Key Achievements - Successfully planned and coordinated commemorative event to mark the 100 years of Carnegie Council attended by more than 100 foreign dignitaries. - Coordinated and ran up to three events a day, including breakfast events, morning conferences and evening banquets. - Partnering with food & beverage vendors to create special menus for events. Description of Responsibilities - Acting as a front House Manager for several events, ensuring that the highest possible levels of hospitality standards are met. - Post-event evaluation and keeper of a calendar of events for effective long term planning & management. - Working closely with key stakeholders at every level of the business to ensure the effective delivery of events. - Coordinate logistics for all events, including arranging for space, catering (food & beverage), room set-up, audio- visual equipment and scheduling. - Coordinating staffing requirements and staff briefings. Show less

Founder/ Creative Director

• 2003 - Jul 2015

Founder and creative force behind the events and management company that conceptualises, directs and runs events held in exclusive hotels. Strong expertise in the field of promotions utilising both physical and social media. Key Achievements: • International Presence - Autobrennt has hosted events in the following cities: New York, Berlin, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Bogotá, Miami, Medellin, Chicago, Santo Domingo. • Autobrennt has cultivated relations and partnered with the following hotel groups: Thompson Hotels (thompsonhotels.com), Ace Hotel (acehotel.com/newyork), The Standard Hotel (standardhotels.com/new-york-city), Tribeca Grand (tribecagrand.com), Hotel on Rivington (hotelonrivington.com), Sax Hotel Chicago (HotelSaxChicago.com). • Autobrennt currently has 10,000 newsletter subscribers and a combined following of 7,000 on facebook and twitter. • Autobrennt employs 5-10 freelance contributing editors, writers, journalists, photographers in New York, London, Leeds, Bogota and Berlin. Show less

Marketing Director

• Jun 2014 - Feb 2015

Managed all social media channels Managed all promotions and special eventsTalent booking

Manager Marketing

• Jan 2013 - Jan 2015