Muhammad Mahmood

Development of Restaurant, Takeaway, delivery and catering business.
Planning new marketing strategies/promotions to attract and bring in more customers.
Keeping regular contact with all the 3rd parties order providers discussing ways to increase sales whilst maintaining excellent relationships with all of them.
Dealing with any customer complaints ASAP.
Business to consumer (B2C) sales experience.
Identify new sales leads - targeting companies to help get corporate clients on board hence developing and generating more revenue.
Maintain good relationships with existing customers and at the same time bring new customers in.
Plan and execute strategies to help grow the business, both residential and corporate.
Organise catering events.
Coach new staff.
Menu costing and pricing with help of executive chef.
Ensure all required standards, internal policies and procedures are followed.
Ensure food safety/food hygiene standards are followed.
Reduce the food cost and at the same time making sure the quality and standards are not compromised.
Lead and maintain excellent working relationships ensuring a happy working env

Development of Restaurant, Takeaway and delivery business of a very busy restaurant chain (5 branches) based in the City.
Developed and increased Takeaway sales by over 60 percent and delivery business by over 80 percent within a few months.
Business to consumer (B2C) sales experience.
Identify new sales leads - targeting companies to help get corporate clients on board hence developing and generating more revenue.
Meet with corporate managers, pitching for the products and services on offer.
Maintain good relationships with existing customers and at the same time bring new customers in.
Plan and execute strategies to help grow the business, both residential and corporate.
Organise catering events.
Coach staff to effectively manage labour cost, food cost, inventory systems and cash control.
Menu costing and pricing with help of executive chef.
Ensure all required standards, internal policies and procedures are followed.
Ensure food safety/food hygiene standards are followed.
Reduce the food cost and at the same time making sure the quality and standards are not compromised.
Senior managers recruitment / final payroll approval.
Drive the managers to make sure weekly/monthly/quarterly revenue targets are met.
Lead and maintain excellent working relationships ensuring a happy working environment.

K10 City sushi was a part of K10 modern Japanese cuisine until its closure in early 2017 due to
development works in the building and as a result all the offices/businesses in the building had to move
out. It was also a conveyor belt restaurant with eat in, takeaway and food delivery options. It was the
very first restaurant that started under the K10 Modern Japanese Cuisine banner.
Job Responsibilities:
▪ Development of takeaway and delivery business.
▪ Manage day-to-day activities of the restaurant.
▪ Meet corporate managers helping increase corporate sales.
▪ Recruitment of staff for takeaway and delivery operations.
▪ Deal with staff issues, requests, staff rotas/ staff holidays.
▪ Inventory count and inventory control.
▪ Stock ordering as and when required.
▪ Make sure labour laws are followed whenever any changes occur.

Cupcake Mum is a company for new and young mums providing café, creche and spa services.
Job Responsibilities:
▪ Preparation of Monthly/Annual financials & other reports as required by Management (e.g.
budgets, financial analysis, Projections, project and product wise costing)
▪ Manage financial operations, Supervision & authorisation of all transactions and resolving
discrepancies if any.
▪ Effectively and efficiently, manage the company's finances and investments.
▪ Calculation of monthly and quarterly mark-up against running finance.
▪ Development of internal control systems and SOP's for the company and its Projects.
▪ Recommend improvement in the system & ensure the timely input of the data.
▪ Monthly Bank Reconciliations, daily bank position report along with payables status.
▪ Look after tax matters. tax calculations and returns including VAT returns.
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▪ Ensure the proper charging of expenditures to relevant heads of Accounts & Reviewing the
Trial Balance & General Ledger time-to-time basis.
▪ Manage and reconcile the Account payables & receivables, also to ensure the adjustments of
prepayments and advances.
▪ Coordination with the auditors, to help conduct the external and internal audit
▪ Successful implementation of Inventory Resource Management & Fix Asset registers.

Red hot restaurants limited was a parent company for Pizza Lupa and K10 City Sushi Limited. It had 3
branches of Pizza Lupa and 1 branch of K10 sushi until Pizza Lupa was sold.
Job Responsibilities:
▪ Preparation of Monthly/Annual financials & other reports as required by Management (e.g.
budgets, financial analysis, Projections, project and product wise costing)
▪ Manage financial operations, Supervision & authorisation of all transactions and resolving
discrepancies if any.
▪ Data entry on daily basis, invoice processing, daily bank reconciliation.
▪ To identify the areas of control weakness and develop procedures to overcome the risk
raised.
▪ Assist in Finalisation of quarterly, yearly & group consolidated accounts.
▪ Work on Sage line 50.

Pizza Lupa was an Italian style pizza delivery outlet with 3 branches in London and it was a part of
Red-hot restaurants until it was sold to Firezza Pizza.
Job Responsibilities:
▪ Manage evening food delivery making sure the whole operation runs smoothly.
▪ Make rotas and deal with staff requests for days off and holidays.
▪ Deal with customer complaints over the phone if the food was late or any missing item.
▪ End of day cashing up.
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Cucina SE1 was a Italian style pizza delivery unit which was merged into Lupa in January 2010.
Job Responsibilities:
▪ Manage evening food delivery making sure the whole operation runs smoothly.
▪ Make rotas and deal with staff requests for days off and holidays.
▪ Deal with customer complaints over the phone if the food was late or any missing item.
▪ End of day cashing up.
▪ Work on Sage line 50 for bookkeeping purposes.
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