John A. Faraone

Dependable Career Server successful providing fast, high-quality customer service to guests in restaurant settings. Adaptable professional with expertise in personnel development, team collaboration and resolving issues with customers, waitstaff and management, while delivering excellent, anticipatory customer service individually tailored to each guests needs during their dining experience.

• Food Allergy Training, 360 Learn 2 Serve - 11/2023 - 11/2026
• Alcohol Training, 360 Learn 2 Serve - 11/2023 - 11/2026
• Food Safety Training, 360 Learn 2 Serve - 11/2023 - 11/2026
• AED,BLS,CPR,ALS,First Aid for infants, children, and adults in the workplace, Red Cross - Still attending - Will provide expiration dates as I get them.

• Collaborated with team of Servers in the development of restaurant success after Covid..
• Supervised team of several staff members.
• Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets.
• Achieved emptying a 4000 package backstock of inventory in 4 months before my first inventory as a manager in that location by implementing my own plan and hiring employees to help see my vision through - working 14 hour days - working while store was closed overnights - and fostering great team work and communication during the process with accuracy and efficiency.

• Kitchen Coalition Volunteer
• Aliveness Kitchen Volunteer
• Shadow Hills Ranch Equine Therapy for Veterans with P.T.S.D and Children with Disabilities

Serving is a passion of mine for many years now throughout my life. I love to be around people, kids, guests. I enjoy figuring out what makes people tick and how combine my energies with theirs to enhance their experience. The fast pace and hustle and bustle of it all keeps me engaged and excited! I am attending school to become an MRI technician with thoughts of possibly also becoming a Cath Lab Tech - which administers the IV for cardiac patients into their hearts. I enjoy school and while I attend I also take design classes for fashion as I love to sew and make clothing. I also love to fill my off time with writing screen plays - plays, and books. I just recently started to dabble with the idea of stand up comedy and have begun writing bits to put together to possibly try on stage. So many interests here as you can see. But the most rewarding is the many different volunteer positions I have been fortunate enough to have been gifted to be a part of. veterans with P.T.S.D and children with disabilities providing equine therapy. Or working in the kitchen at food shelves and organizations from California to Washington all the way to Florida and New York and everything in between. Its been a gift! Life is short - explore all the interests and have fun with it and make it meaningful for the short precious time we are here. That would sum up my attitude towards life - and if you can make someones day better by doing this - then its simply the cherry on top of it all in this crazy thing called life!