Elizabeth Williams
Mount Kisco,NY
Summary
Experienced food service manager with 20+ years of success in building strong relationships, leading teams, and delivering key initiatives. Skilled in collaboration, project management, and ensuring on-time, budget-conscious execution.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Culinary Systems Analyst
SSP America
01.2018 - Current
- Collaborative Menu Development: Partnered with the Commercial Team and Operations to identify the most cost-efficient menu offerings that align with consumer preferences and company profitability. Implemented a structured approach to ensure financial targets and operational feasibility are met.
- Inventory Management and POS Support: Enter recipes, ingredients, vendor bids, costs, cooking procedures and nutrition into multiple software systems (Excel, and Crunch Time Restaurant Management Software). Conducted site visits to streamline inventory organization and manage POS programming, ensuring accuracy while minimizing impact on management's time and resources.
- Recipe Development: Assist with the preparation, development, and testing of SSP recipes in coordination with SSP’s Research & Development Chefs. Analyze recipe cooking techniques, ingredient quantities, assembly procedures and recipe yield to identify potential errors in recipes
- Recipe Analysis and HACCP Compliance: Professionally write culinary specific preparation methods and HACCP procedures for food service style recipes.
- Managed Order Guides: Collaborate with business supply management team to source all ingredients for recipes from SSP Vendors to ensure, cost and quality control. Input, and maintain all bid pricing into Crunchtime Database.
Food Service Director
Aramark Education
01.2004 - 01.2018
- Team Leadership: Sole Unit Manager; P&L accounts consisting of 3-5 schools with 1800-2800 students
- Labor Management: Manage hiring, training, and evaluations for 30-35 staff employees, including supervisory and hourly staff. Ensured that target meals per labor hour were met.
- Menu Planning: Menu planning with strict adherence to all state and federally mandated Child Nutrition guidelines. Increased meals by 16% in 2 years and bottom line by 400%.
- Financial Reporting: Prepare annual budget, forecasting, and financial reports. Manage purchasing, inventory, payroll, cash control and preparation and analyzing of accounting reports
Conference Catering Director
Culinart Inc.
01.2000 - 01.2004
- $1.6 Million-dollar subsidized account hosting 1001-5000 employees
- Managed catering department, which handles all food service functions for daily meetings and special events. Purdue houses 74 conference rooms ranging in size from 6–200-person capacity
- Managed Executive Dining Room and Executive Wing which caters to Purdue Owners, Vice Presidents, and Executive Directors
- Managed purchasing, inventory, menu planning, billing, staff training and preparation of reports for the catering department
- Human Resource functions for staff of 60
- Performed all functions of Food Service Director in their absence
Education
Bachelor of Science - Hotel, Restaurant, And Travel Administration
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MAAssociate of Occupational Science - Culinary Arts
Johnson & Wales University
Providence, RISkills
- Proficient in Inventory Management
- Analytical skills used to analyze product usage, costs, and standardized best practices
- Microsoft desktop applications, including MS Word, Outlook, Excel, Adobe Acrobat Pro
- Experienced in financial support including budgeting, forecasting, cost analysis, business plans, account goals and objectives
Certification
- ServSafe Cerifucation - Expires 2028
- PCQI - Certified 2023
Timeline
Culinary Systems Analyst
SSP America
01.2018 - Current
Food Service Director
Aramark Education
01.2004 - 01.2018
Conference Catering Director
Culinart Inc.
01.2000 - 01.2004
Bachelor of Science - Hotel, Restaurant, And Travel Administration
University of Massachusetts
Associate of Occupational Science - Culinary Arts
Johnson & Wales University
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