Luis Lara
Laredo,Texas
Summary
Detail-oriented Owner with proven success building relationships and maintaining partnerships with top accounts to increase overall productivity and grow profit channels. Expands network connections by effectively determining and meeting customer needs, implementing price models and optimizing inventory control procedures.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Owner/operator
Projecto Humo
- Rotate through various stations
- Managed employees including hiring, terminating, scheduling
- Conducted inventory and orders
- Supervise and assist in food production
- Weekly inventory of both FOH & BOH
- Handle Guests issues
- Contribute to maintaining food cost standards
- Promote safety and proper sanitation
- Act as a replacement worker when short staffed
- Control food waste
- Train and coach all staff.
Owner/operator
El Puesto Taqueria & Cantina
01.2021 - 01.2023
- Rotate through various stations
- Managed employees including hiring, terminating, scheduling
- Conducted inventory and orders
- Supervise and assist in food production
- Weekly inventory of both FOH & BOH
- Handle Guests issues
- Contribute to maintaining food cost standards
- Promote safety and proper sanitation
- Act as a replacement worker when short staffed
- Control food waste
- Train and coach all staff.
General Manager
Mambos Sports Pub
02.2017 - 01.2018
- Supervise and assist in food production
- Weekly inventory of both FOH & BOH
- Handle Guests issues
- Contribute to maintaining food cost standards
- Promote safety and proper sanitation
- Act as a replacement worker when short staffed
- Control food waste
- Train and coach all staff.
Owner/operator
El Puesto Food Truck
08.2016 - 01.2018
- Rotate through various stations
- Managed employees including hiring, terminating, scheduling
- Conducted inventory and orders
- Supervise and assist in food production
- Weekly inventory of both FOH & BOH
- Handle Guests issues
- Contribute to maintaining food cost standards
- Promote safety and proper sanitation
- Act as a replacement worker when short staffed
- Control food waste
- Train and coach all staff.
General Manager
The International Office Sports Bar and Grill
02.2016 - 04.2016
- Supervise and assist in food production
- Weekly inventory of both FOH & BOH
- Handle Guests issues
- Contribute to maintaining food cost standards
- Promote safety and proper sanitation
- Act as a replacement worker when short staffed
- Control food waste
- Train and coach all staff.
Tacos Kissi
- Supervise and assist in food production
- Weekly inventory of both FOH & BOH
- Handle Guests issues
- Contribute to maintaining food cost standards
- Promote safety and proper sanitation
- Act as a replacement worker when short staffed
- Control food waste
- Train and coach all staff.
Education
Associate of Applied Science in Culinary Arts -
Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts
Austin, TexasSkills
- Operations Management
- Documentation And Reporting
- Hiring
- Business Planning
Certification
- HACCP ServSafe Certificate 2017
- Manage First Certification 2017
- Certified Pizzaiolo in Neopolitan and Classic Italian Pizza 2014
Features
- Femina Magazine, 2022, https://feminalaredo.com/el-lugar-en-la-frontera-con-autenticos-tacos-artesanales-1262/
- Texas Monthly, 2023, https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/proyecto-humo-tacos-laredo/
Languages
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
English
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Owner/operator
El Puesto Taqueria & Cantina
01.2021 - 01.2023
General Manager
Mambos Sports Pub
02.2017 - 01.2018
Owner/operator
El Puesto Food Truck
08.2016 - 01.2018
General Manager
The International Office Sports Bar and Grill
02.2016 - 04.2016
Owner/operator
Projecto Humo
Tacos Kissi
Associate of Applied Science in Culinary Arts -
Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts
- HACCP ServSafe Certificate 2017
- Manage First Certification 2017
- Certified Pizzaiolo in Neopolitan and Classic Italian Pizza 2014
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