Owner-Operator/Executive Chef/CEO
Le Giverny Bistro
Total years of experience :29 years, 5 Months
Le Giverny Bistro, Atlanta, Georgia 1993- May 2013
Owner-Operator/Executive Chef
Controlled all aspects of day-to-day operations including: • Creating monthly menus and wine lists targeted at a sophisticated mature dining residing within the prestigious Emory university community
• Managed all wine and food inventory systems
• Maintained less than 30% food cost and 32% labor cost for the last ten years
• Hired, trained and managed kitchen and dining room staff- 22 employees
• Provided room service for one hundred rooms hotel since relocation in 2002
• Created quarterly wine and beer tastings and special events dinners for 50 guests
• Manage vendor negotiations and all food, wine and supplies procurement
• Annual sales revenues peaked at over $1 million in 2007
• Zagat rated since 1996
• One of the longest continuously operating restaurant in Atlanta, with a 21 year run
Sage On Sycamore, Historic Downtown Decatur, Georgia 1999-2009
Owner-Operator/Executive Chef
• Envisioned and started original American Bistro concept (150 seats + 50 banquets)
• Designed and created all floor plans, including dining-rooms and kitchen schematics.
• Hired, trained and led start-up team of 48 kitchen and service professionals
• Wrote and created all menus and wine list of more than 200 wines
• Evaluated, selected and managed POS and accounting systems (Aloha & QuickBooks Pro)
• Propelled annual sales revenues from zero in 1999 to $2.25 millions in 2001
Violette Restaurant, Atlanta, Georgia 1987-1993
Chef de Cuisine/ General Manager
•Worked as Chef de Cuisine at newly opened casual French bistro from 1987 to 1991 under the tutelage of famed French Chef Guy Luck
•Promoted to General Manager in 1991
•Created all marketing materials and established inventory and accounting systems
•Controlled food cost (less than 30%) and labor cost
•In charge of ordering, hiring, training and all scheduling
•Led a team of 6 employees in the kitchen and 16 on the floor
•Served as captain and wine stewart at this 5-star Buckhead Life Restaurant Group's flagship property
• Georgia State University: Bachelor of Science - June 1985 Major: Mathematics/Information Systems
