Tara Born
Bartender/F&B Manager
Leland,NC
Summary
Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong worth ethic, adaptability and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills. Innovative Restaurant Manager with more than 13 years of food preparation and service experience. Motivates team members to meet challenging customer demands in fast-paced environments. Never sacrifices quality, safety or cost control measures vital to sustainable business operations.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Bartender
Edgewater 122
Southport, NC
01.2023 - Current
- Greet customers and provide excellent customer service
- Prepare alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages according to recipe standards
- Ensure proper sanitation of bar area, glassware, utensils, and equipment
- Process payments accurately and efficiently with POS system
- Develop good working relationships with fellow employees through effective communication
- Complete regular bar inventories and daily requisition sheets
- Create new cocktails and bar menus for each season/local events
Food and Beverage Operations Manager
Tailwind Concessions
Wilmington, NC
02.2023 - 05.2023
- Traveling to multiple locations across the country to assist in the training of new employees, set up new locations, recognition of problem areas and creating and conducting solutions, etc.
- Auditing POS systems across all locations
- Creating spreadsheets for multiple purposes to maintain an organized and effective business
- Implementation of localized branding for new bar locations
- Creating new cocktails and bar menus for each location
- Taking inventory and placing orders for each location
Bartender
Texas Live!
Arlington, TX
04.2022 - 11.2022
- Provide exceptional service to customers and bar patrons
- Maintaining a good track record of punctuality and going above and beyond with what was expected of me as a bartender
- Help management with correcting issues within the facility using my prior experience in restaurant management
HVAC CSR/Property Manager
Team Enoch
Fort Worth, TX
07.2021 - 02.2022
- Answering and forwarding phone calls/messages
- Scheduling service-call and installation appointments for multiple departments: HVAC, Plumbing, Electrical and Roofing
- Keeping up with multiple email accounts, responding accordingly and/or forwarding to the proper departments
- Creating and updating shared spreadsheets to help with the efficiency of the workflow in multiple different areas
- Managing customer memberships; organization in spreadsheet, coming up with incentives, etc
- Sending out past-due invoices
- Posting/showing/renting out rental properties for "Enoch Properties"
- Managing the leases for 30+properties: accepting rent payments, responding to/scheduling appointments for service calls, cleaning and general maintenance of the properties.
Food and Beverage Manager
Texas Golf Center
Fort Worth, TX
02.2020 - 07.2021
- Checking in customers, accepting payments and providing answers to questions related to the golf course and facility
- Hosting, serving and bartending for customers within the facility
- Coming up with cocktails/drink recipes for bar menu
- Training new-hires within the bar and restaurant
- Managing events, setting up pop-up bars and establishing an appealing environment and enjoyable experience for all patrons
- Ordering liquor, beer and bar/restaurant supplies
- Closing out reports and balancing the books at the end of each day.
Bar Manager
The Ginger Root
Fort Worth, TX
04.2019 - 02.2020
- Provide exceptional service for all customers and bar patrons
- Sales of products and services within the bar and restaurant
- Training of new-hires
- Maintaining a clean and functional work environment
- Taking inventory and placing orders for bar/restaurant supplies as needed
- Accepting payments, closing tickets, running reports and balancing the books at the end of each day.
Assistant General Manager
Bottlecap Alley
Fort Worth, TX
05.2012 - 06.2019
- Provide exceptional service to all restaurant/bar patrons
- Create new cocktails/recipes for the bar and restaurant
- Photography of food and beverages and posting them in an appealing manner across social media in order to promote the business
- Conducting interviews, hiring and training of new employees
- Maintaining a clean, efficient and productive work environment
- Taking inventory and placing orders of bar/restaurant supplies as needed
- Running reports and balancing the books at the end of each day, as well as making daily deposits and documenting sales and income activity for each day
Medical Receptionist
North Hills Family Medicine
Keller, TX
05.2007 - 06.2010
- Checking in patients, requesting necessary paperwork and documentation, as well as accepting and verifying customer's medical insurance
- Answering phone calls, scheduling appointments and answering basic questions regarding the facility
- Assist doctors and nurses in daily tasks and paperwork
- Running, organizing and maintaining patient charts with all required/necessary information
- Receiving payment for services after proper verification of patient insurance and input of accurate medical codes
- Balancing and closing reports at the end of each day.
Education
Associate of Arts - Basic
Tarrant County College District
Fort Worth, TX12.2011
Some College (No Degree) - Biology
University of North Texas
Denton, TXSkills
- 13 years of experience in restaurant customer service
- 9 years of experience in food and beverage management
- 3 years of experience as a medical patient coordinator
- Experience as an HVAC customer service representative
- Experience in property management
- Certified with TABC and Managerial Food Handler's
- Skills in Microsoft Office, QuickBooks and POS management
Certification
- TABC
- Managerial Food Handler's
Languages
Spanish
Limited
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Food and Beverage Operations Manager
Tailwind Concessions
02.2023 - 05.2023
Bartender
Edgewater 122
01.2023 - Current
Bartender
Texas Live!
04.2022 - 11.2022
HVAC CSR/Property Manager
Team Enoch
07.2021 - 02.2022
Food and Beverage Manager
Texas Golf Center
02.2020 - 07.2021
Bar Manager
The Ginger Root
04.2019 - 02.2020
Assistant General Manager
Bottlecap Alley
05.2012 - 06.2019
Medical Receptionist
North Hills Family Medicine
05.2007 - 06.2010
Associate of Arts - Basic
Tarrant County College District
Some College (No Degree) - Biology
University of North Texas
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