
Food and Beverage professional with 8+ years extensive experience and skills cross-functionally between service roles and management. Primarily, experience in fine dining service and multi department operations. Highly proficient in food and wine pairing with an exemplary mixology background and spirits knowledge, particularly whiskey and bourbon. Ability to lead and efficiently cover extremely high volume bartending and service operations with repeated history of being highest sales employee. Broad management experience between fine dining establishments, high volume bar/event centers, country clubs, workout facilities, and self-managed as a freelance esthetician. Known for fostering team collaboration and initiating systems for efficiency, cost reduction, and overall service operation improvement. Specializing in growing and enhancing employee skill sets and level of service by learning, coaching, and teaching about food and wine knowledge, how to pair with menu, to upsell products or specials, proper bartending techniques, and table service rules and order. Dedication to providing highest level of service to customers and creating pleasant work environment for staff.
Self employed as a freelance esthetician, specializing in wedding/special event make-up applications and updos.
Oversaw clubs dining service, beverage cart and snack house staff and operations, banquets, and various special events ensuring high-quality service and customer satisfaction. Primary duties of member engagement, training staff in best practices in service excellence and product knowledge, and managing staff schedules while maintaining fair coverage for shifts. Motivated staff to perform at peak efficiency and quality with daily mentorship and learning during pre-shift and post-shift meetings.
Oversaw daily bar and dining operations, ensuring high standards of service and customer satisfaction while supervising, bartending, and serving. Lead bartender and promoted supervisor. Developed and implemented inventory management system to maintain stock of liquor, ingredients, bar tools, glassware, etc. Batch daily cocktail mixes and garnish prep for bartender use. Closed out cash register and prepared cashier report before closing business EOD. Hiring, training, and coordinating schedules of staff.
Handcrafted cocktail lounge at The Kindler Hotel with duties of bartending, serving, room service, and more. Daily preparation of fresh ingredients for cocktail recipes including syrups, purees, garnishes, and food menu. Mixology focused.
Pop-Up bar at The Railyard entertainment center. Extremely high volume bartending for nebraska husker gamedays. Entire bar set up and take down of entire venue, per game.
Upscale restaurant and golf club with duties ranging from bartending, banquet bartending/serving, banquet/tournament prep and beverage cart.
Extremely high volume bar and restaurant bartending, serving, dishwashing, cocktail waitress, etc. Repeated leader in highest sales/earnings both bartending and serving.
Overseeing the front desk staff, handling customer service questions/complaints, membership sales, setting employees day to day schedules for the upkeep of the club, monthly maintenance, hiring employees.
Member focused private country club with a primary goal of perfect hospitality. Job obligations here include bartending, knowledgeable food & wine pairing, cleaning and banquet bartender.
While managing, duties include bartending, serving, training new employees, event planning, inventory and orders, bus tables, hosting, cash handling, catering events, cleaning, etc. Extremely high volume during concerts & events.
The “First Impression Team” position includes product merchandising, retail sales, customer service calls, scheduling, cleaning, point of sale, etc.