F&B Head of department
shalawi international company
Total years of experience :11 years, 6 Months
head of department for restaurants
Concept creator.
-Pre-opening Lebanese concept fine dining restaurant “Zankil”
Budgeting, manning, Payroll, P&L monitoring, action plan for opening
Recruiting suitable staff, training, standards setting, new service ideas, trending menu, kitchen directing, pre-opening from A to Z, market study, planning for long-term plans, knowing market needs, location specifying
-Cloud kitchen concepts
-HACCP manual standards
Managing operational, procurement, marketing, finance, HR and recruiting departments which is related to F&B department
Consutling different kinds of restaurants, operating concepts, setting restaurants rules and regulations,
Suppliers following, kitchen development and managing,
Creating menu with market needs,
-Pre-opening 2-branches Lebanese fast food concept "SH.M.L"
-Pre-opening Russian concept "Wafl"
Recruiting suitable staff and train them
-Pre opening concept restaurants general manager,
lebanese restaurant concept "Fatte W Snobar" 7 branches managing
-4 branches in saudi arabia kingdom " Khobar, Dammam, Hafer Baten, and Abha "
-3 branches in Turkey Istanbul "Beilykduzu, Bashak Shahir, Fateh"
job description: -making restaurants yearly budget.
-Manning
-p&l monitoring
-preparing restaurants from A to Z.
-directing the restaurant operation managers and executive chefs
-working between Saudi Arabia and turkey region
- procurement experience in the saudi and Turkish market for operating restaurants
-motivating and implementing the employees
-interviewing suitable staff for their right places
-keep the good reputation for our company's brand
- making visual identity for the brand
-managing social media bloggers for continuous boosting
-make sure to give best quality of food and service for the brand.
-long-term expansion vision for the company.
f&b outlet manager in kempinski hotel
-Managed a lounge "sky lounge" and 2 small boulangerie :job description: training staff for kempinski standards, motivate staff, marketing plan advising, p&l managing, daily meetings for providing always new ideas and developing the outlet, menu engeneering and pricing, increasing profit in different ways.
-Pre opening spanish fine dining restaurant "Aceite" : job description: training staff for pre opening stage, menu knowledge, service experience, increasing profit in many ways, give good reputation for the outlet, motivating employees, menu engeneering managing, p&l managing ...
-Pre opening lebanese with twist restaurant "Beit Misk" Dammam city
job description: p&l managing, target achieving, scheduling, training staff for better service, customer relation, catering managing, events managing, motivation for the staff and implementation, give good reputation to the restaurant...
-Pre opening lebanese franchise restaurant "Semsom" located in kuwait as restaurant supervisor promoted to assistant manager
job description: opening and closing checklists, inventories, provide best service and make sure of following Semsom standards, handling guest complains, suggestive and upselling training, hygiene, scheduling...
Fine dining restaurant “Le Grill” my job was, customer care, suggestive and upselling training, closing and opening checklists, inventory, staff monitoring...
international hospitality management certified then business administration