JOHN VICTOR ARULANANDU
Dublin,CA
Summary
F&B operations and cost-control professional with broad hospitality experience across multiple markets. Manages restaurant operations, labor planning, COGS reporting, recipe costing, inventory checks, and POS controls to reduce variance, improve pricing accuracy, and support better decisions.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Operations Manager
Anjappar Chettinad Cuisine
Dublin, CA
11.2023 - Current
- Manage daily restaurant operations.
- Coordinated staff schedules, shifts, and floor coverage based on sales trends and operational needs.
- Ensure labor cost in line with sales trend.
- Train service staff on guest handling and menu knowledge.
- Resolve customer complaints in a timely manner while ensuring customer satisfaction remains at optimal levels.
- Support sales mix, menu performance, and profitability reviews to guide pricing and menu choices.
- Assisted in preparing cost of goods sold (COGS) reports for financial analysis. and supported cost-reduction efforts across food inventory and operating controls.
- Reviewed discount and promotion activities to identify revenue leakage and enhance transaction controls.
- Assisted in recipe costing, pricing updates, and inventory waste tracking to improve stock-control processes.
- Work with technology teams to improve POS and inventory processes, reporting, and system controls.
- Adhered to health and safety standards to maintain a safe working environment. and operational procedures.
Senior Cost Controller
Kaykroo Foodtech LLC
Dubai
10.2022 - 10.2023
- Managed F&B cost-control activities with focus on COGS.
- Circulated monthly COGS report and compared theoretical cost against actual consumption to investigate variances
- Managed data and ensured accuracy of recipes and raw materials through regular reviews
- Ensured purchase items are linked with proper vendor and pricing to arrive at accurate theoretical cost
- Supervised physical stock count at the locations
- Verified purchase orders and invoices for proper pricings
- Conducted audits on POS items to ensure proper recipe linking and selling prices for proper recipe linking and selling prices
- Prepared analysis reports to support management decision-making
- Audited transfers from central kitchen to verify accuracy of stock module entries
Cost Control Manager
HWH Cafes LLC
Dubai
02.2019 - 01.2021
- Managed F&B cost-control activities to optimize COGS.
- Compared theoretical costs with actual consumption to identify variances.
- Ensured purchase items are linked with proper vendor and pricing to arrive at accurate theoretical cost
- Reviewed purchase orders for accuracy in pricing and vendor details. and invoices for proper pricings
- Implemented inventory module and brought visibility on COGS
- Worked on ERP implementation and prepared complete database for migration
- Audit POS items for proper recipe linking and selling prices
- Prepared analysis reports to help management on decision making
Cost Controller
Landmark Group
Dubai
10.2014 - 02.2019
- Managed F&B cost-control activities across territories including UAE, Kuwait, KSA and Qatar
- Published bi-weekly COGS report, comparing theoretical cost to actual consumption to identify and analyze variances
- Linked purchase items with appropriate vendors and pricing to establish accurate theoretical costs
- Cross verified daily sales posting and identified any item not linked with the recipes and link it.
- Conducted spot checks in the outlets.
- Verified purchase orders and invoices for proper pricings
- Audit POS items for proper recipe linking and selling prices
- Audit the transfers from central kitchen and ensure accuracy of transfer entries in stock module
- Prepared analysis reports to support management in informed decision-making
Cost Auditor
Park Hyatt Chennai
Chennai
12.2012 - 09.2014
- Audited daily stock transactions and approved entries in ERP to ensure accuracy and compliance.
- Published daily COGS report to the operations team and sent comparison against actual vs budget
- Conducted weekly stock take for all F&B items, providing variance reports for inventory oversight.
- Analyzed expenses for apartment events, assessing financial feasibility to inform budget decisions.
- Conducted monthly linen inventory, OE inventory and Mini Bar inventory
- Maintained liquor register and did a daily stock take
- Conducted spot check at the outlets for open check, complimentary checks
Team Leader – F&B Controls
Sky Gourmet Catering Pvt Ltd
Chennai
08.2009 - 12.2012
- Executed F&B control activities to maintain operational compliance, monitor cost efficiency, and deliver accurate reporting.
- Supervised meal assembly for airline catering standards and schedules.
F&B Controls Executive
The Ambassadors Sky Chef
New Delhi
12.2007 - 08.2009
- Coordinated F&B control processes, enhancing reporting and monitoring of operational costs.
Education
B.Sc. - Hotel Management & Catering Science
Bharathidasan University
Tiruchirappalli04-2006
Skills
- COGS Analysis
- Recipe Costing & Menu Pricing
- Menu engineering
- Revenue Leakage & Discount / Promotion Controls
- Wastage control
- Inventory control
- Labor scheduling
- Management analysis
- POS & inventory system implementation
- Preopening and stock module migrations
- POS / Inventory: Supy, Toast, SAP, FMC, Micros, My Inventory, iScala, Sage X3
Personal Information
Title: F&B COST CONTROLLER | COST CONTROL & OPERATIONS
LANGUAGES
English, Tamil, Hindi
Timeline
Operations Manager
Anjappar Chettinad Cuisine
11.2023 - Current
Senior Cost Controller
Kaykroo Foodtech LLC
10.2022 - 10.2023
Cost Control Manager
HWH Cafes LLC
02.2019 - 01.2021
Cost Controller
Landmark Group
10.2014 - 02.2019
Cost Auditor
Park Hyatt Chennai
12.2012 - 09.2014
Team Leader – F&B Controls
Sky Gourmet Catering Pvt Ltd
08.2009 - 12.2012
F&B Controls Executive
The Ambassadors Sky Chef
12.2007 - 08.2009
B.Sc. - Hotel Management & Catering Science
Bharathidasan University