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Rajesh Gharmalkar

Kansas City,MO

Summary

Dynamic General Manager with a proven track record at Yard House. Expert in strategic planning and training, fostering team development and culinary excellence. Adept at maximizing profitability through effective scheduling and labor cost controls, while motivating teams to achieve exceptional performance.

Strong leader and problem-solver dedicated to streamlining operations.

Looking for my next career with growth opportunity and a sound operational culture.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

General Manager

Yard House
03.2022 - 03.2025
  • Managed budget implementations, employee reviews, training, and schedules.
  • Drove year-over-year business growth while leading operations, strategic vision, and long-range planning. Sales growth of 1.5 million in 3 years.
  • Reduced turnover from 240% to 84%
  • Maximized efficiency by coaching and mentoring personnel on management principles, industry practices, and company procedures.

General Manager

Yard House
02.2021 - 03.2022
    • Scheduled employees for shifts, taking into account customer traffic and employee strengths.
    • Trained and guided team members to maintain high productivity and performance metrics.
    • Diamond Club Award for top 5% of company for the first time in locations 18 year history.
    • Promoted a culture of internal growth. Promoted 4 TM to management. Promoted 8 TM to become travel trainers to help build company growth.

General Manager

Yard House
11.2018 - 01.2021
    • Recruited, hired, and trained initial personnel, working to establish key internal functions and outline scope of positions for new restaurant opening.
    • Hired 200 team members for initial opening.
    • Set Sales record for a YH NRO with 340k opening week.

General Manager

Rock & Brews
03.2017 - 11.2017
  • Developed and implemented strategies to increase sales and profitability.
  • Updated and resolved incidents and managed accessorial charges objectively while maximizing profit.


NRO Coordinator

Yard House
03.2015 - 03.2017
  • Successfully opened 5 Yard House openings in multiple markets across the nation.


  • Manager a traveling team from across the nation to work as one unit to successfully train new staff on systems, standards and product knowledge.
  • Manage travel and travel expenditures for traveling team.
  • Train and develop managers, team members and create a training team for new locations.

Assistant General Manager

Yard House
03.2012 - 03.2017
  • Managed budget implementations, employee reviews, training, and reviewed all schedules.
  • Motivated, trained, and disciplined employees to maximize performance.
  • Bar Manager for 2 years.
  • Set Sales record of 104k in a single shift.
  • Set sales record of 434k in a week.
  • Managed 260 team members and 12 other managers to run a 18 million dollar restaurant in the heart of LA.

Server/Corporate Server Trainer/ Traveling Trainer

Yard House
01.2007 - 03.2012
  • Cultivated warm relationships with regular customers.
  • Explained menu items and suggested appropriate options for food allergy concerns.
  • Trained managers in operational skills of a server for the corporate training location.
  • Opened and trained servers for multiple locations across the country.
  • Created systems and standards for the entire company to utilize.

Education

No Degree - Business Management

California State University, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

Skills

  • Sales- Increasing sales through guest engagement, building events outside the 4 walls, creating efficiency through maximizing throughput, and develop stronger salesmanship from team members
  • Motivation- Training and developing team members and managers
  • Culinary expertise- Driving food quality through high level engagement in Kitchen operations Trained and worked in all stations in the kitchen Reduce waste through proper ordering, quality checks and proper recipe adherence
  • Schedule management- Manage high level teams, maximizing profitibilty, team member happiness and guest satisfaction through effective scheduling
  • Multimillion-dollar P&L management
  • Strategic planning
  • Labor cost controls
  • Training and development
  • Leadership
  • Inventory control
  • Problem resolution

Certification

  • ServSafe Alcohol Certification - National Restaurant Association.
  • Certified Food Safety Manager (CFSM) - National Restaurant Association.

Timeline

General Manager

Yard House
03.2022 - 03.2025

General Manager

Yard House
02.2021 - 03.2022

General Manager

Yard House
11.2018 - 01.2021

General Manager

Rock & Brews
03.2017 - 11.2017

NRO Coordinator

Yard House
03.2015 - 03.2017

Assistant General Manager

Yard House
03.2012 - 03.2017

Server/Corporate Server Trainer/ Traveling Trainer

Yard House
01.2007 - 03.2012

No Degree - Business Management

California State University, Los Angeles

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