Dynamic culinary professional with extensive experience at IHOP, excelling in food preparation and team leadership. Proven ability to enhance customer satisfaction through exceptional service and efficient operations management. Skilled in food safety oversight and staff training, fostering a collaborative environment that drives productivity and success. ServSafe certified and committed to maintaining high standards.
• Food Preparation: Prepares ingredients, including chopping vegetables, measuring spices, and portioning food items.
• Cooking: Cooks food items to order, following IHOP recipes and procedures, using various cooking methods like grilling, frying, and baking.
• Plating and Presentation: Arranges food attractively on plates and ensures proper portion sizes.
• Equipment Operation: Operates and maintains kitchen equipment, such as grills, ovens, and fryers.
• Food Safety and Sanitation: Maintains a clean and sanitary work area, follows proper food handling procedures, and adheres to health and safety regulations.
• Inventory Management: Assists with stocking and organizing food items, and may be involved in placing orders.
• Teamwork: Collaborates with other kitchen staff, such as servers and other cooks, to ensure smooth and efficient service.
• Following Procedures: Adheres to all IHOP Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and guidelines.
• Overseeing daily business operations
• Training managers and staff.
• Creating and managing budgets
• Improving revenue
• Hiring employees
• Maintain budgets and optimize expenses
• Set policies and processes
• Ensure employees work productively and develop professionally
• Oversee recruitment and training of new employees
• Evaluate and improve operations and financial management
• Prepare regular reports for upper management
• Ensure staff follows health and safety regulations
• Provide solutions to issues (e.g. profit decline, employee conflicts, loss of business to competitors
• Calculating weekly numbers
• Payroll
• Scheduling
• Execute the MIC (Manager-In-Charge) Success Routine and ensure responsibilities under People, Customers and Service are completed.
• Ensure that all Team Members complete their Shift Excellence tasks for their assigned position(s).
• Ensure that all employees present a neat clean appearance and wear company uniform. • Personally demonstrate the Customer needs are the highest priority.
• Ensure food safety, quality and accuracy of orders.
• Resolve customer complaints quickly while maintaining positive customer relations.
• Greets customers with a smile, is polite and pleasant when speaking with customers.
• Works with urgency.
• Works with management and fellow staff
• Demonstrates a positive and enthusiastic attitude with everyone
• Takes action without being told, goes beyond what is simply required and maintains a high activity level.
• Provide regular feedback to the RGM on the performance of Team Members.
• Provide ongoing constructive and complimentary feedback to Team Members.
• Actively participates in the training of Team Members
• Manage transactions with customers using cash registers
• Scan goods and ensure pricing is accurate
• Collect payments whether in cash or credit
• Issue receipts, refunds, change or tickets
• Redeem coupons
• Upsell products and introduce new ones
• Resolve customer complaints, guide them and provide relevant information
• Maintain clean and tidy checkout areas
• Track transactions on balance sheets and report any discrepancies
• Bag, box or gift-wrap packages
• Handle merchandise returns and exchange