Ketan

Experienced Restauranteur

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Location Montreal, Urban agglomeration of Montreal, Montreal (06), Quebec, Canada

Restaurant: Le Cheese Truck
Managing Partner Role 
-Managing daily operations & logistics for the food truck and the restaurant.
-Setting strategic goals & objectives; growing sales in restaurant and food truck, reducing expenses, increasing profit for share holders & growing business.
-Monitoring performance through P&L, sales and balance sheets.
-Performing daily, weekly and monthly P&L, calculating staff hours for the accountant, book keeping, filing receipts for quarterly taxes, scheduling, catering contracts, invoices & emails.
-Content creation for social media platforms: instagram, facebook 
-Executing marketing campaigns such as mac & cheese week 2016, 2017, 2018 with over 30 participating restaurants in Montreal, themed dinners, superbowl specials etc... 
-Creating pop up restaurants in various locations in Montreal to increase visibility, reach and drive sales.
-Collaborating with local restaurants & brands such as Riverside mtl, Le Gros Luxe, Mc Leans Pub & New Regime to increase reach, visibility & increase sales.
-Partnering with local graphic designer to create user friendly and easy to navigate website, create digital assets for online presence, labels for grocery store items, and merchandise. 
-Assuring consistent representation of branding through multichannel marketing and through diversification of products. 
-Maintaining client relationships for catering: CIUSSS Hospital, evenko, insight, Folkfest etc ...
Chef Role 
-Innovating: Implementing different techniques in food preparation to assure a consistent product with the highest quality in an efficient manner.
-Maintaining relationship with suppliers and assuring the use of the best ingredients for a superior and cost effective product. 
-Creating weekly specials to drive traffic to the restaurant. 
-Implementing policies and procedures for employees to follow. 
-Plan and direct food preparation for restaurant and food truck.  
-Consult with clients regarding catering contracts.
-Plan menus for events.
-Supervise sous chef and line cooks.
-Recruit, hire and train staff.
Expertise

Service Counter / Kitchen StaffCatererCook & Chef DishwasherManager / Supervisor Waiter / WaitressBusboyManager

Years of experience related to expertise

10 or more

Availabilities

Full time Part time

Last level of completed studies

Collegiate

Language

FrenchEnglish