RESTAURANT PROFESSIONAL FOR HIRERESTAURANT PRO (director manager consultant) FOR HIRE Scott is an executive manager of luxury hotels, full service restaurants, nightclubs & bars with proven abilities in the most challenging turn-around and start-up projects in the U.S. and Internationally. Scott is a hands-on manager with has expert abilities in culinary, financial, management and training. Five of the past eight years have been spent as the Director of Operations in-charge of creating new restaurant companies, turning around existing “challenged” concepts and growing restaurant companies. Scott is an innovative hospitality professional who will provide the direction and leadership for change & growth with a reputation for exceeding expectations. Scott is an experienced hospitality professional who is able to “create” while understanding the business dynamics and direct financial effects. Scott proven abilities in concept development, operations, financial analysis, culinary development/execution and creates the business plans, operating culture & programs, operations manuals and all tools for start-up and on-going operations. Scott diverse experience includes; full responsibility for day-to-day operations of 600 employees in a restaurant company with the best sales per square foot in the U.S, managed one of the World’s top-rated hotels (Regent International Hotels/Hong Kong) and run companies with $25-30M in sales. Scott is a turn-around and start-up specialist with full responsibility for 28 unique restaurant and hotel property openings and 19 turn-around projects in 11 countries. Scott has worked as a consultant for the past 16 years, on over 420 projects throughout the World in all segments of Food Service. Areas of expertise include: Hotels, Restaurants, Theme Parks, Entertainment Centers, Casinos, Nightclubs, College & Universities, Airports and Business & Industry. Expertise in: Operations Management Turn-Around & Opening Properties Concept Plans / Business Plans Culinary Development Beverage Development Human Resources Site Selection Operations & Business Analysis Design Development Conceptual Development Manuals: Recipe Portion & Styling Operations, Training, Marketing, Franchising Training / Train the Trainer Master Planning for Major Projects Project Experience: Scott has consulted on more than 430 projects worldwide, including the following: ³ Harvard University, Cambridge Mass, Food Service Strategic & Conceptual review 13 Units ³ The Hotel Del Coronado, Coronado , CA, Analysis & Competitive Repositioning ³ Port Authority of NY / NJ, Windows on the World, World Trade Center, Master Plan ³ MCA/Universal Studios, U.S. & /Malaysia, Concept Development, Theme Park Master Plan ³ Los Cebollines, Guatamala, Commissary Design, Concept Review/Growth Strategy 8 Units ³ Peabody Hotels, Memphis, Little Rock, Business Strategy - Operational Analysis ³ Daily Grill Restaurants, Los Angeles, Concept Review, Business Strategy ³ Seattle's Best Coffee, U.S./International, Operational Manuals Review ³ Royal Caribbean Cruises, International, Concept Review & Development ³ IL Fornaio Restaurants, U.S., Marketing Research, Strategic Business Planning ³ City of Sparks Nevada, Downtown Master Plan ³ Ameristar Casinos, U.S., Concept Development at 5 Properties ³ Costa Maya Food Service, Mexico, Trained/Opened Facilities Serving 6, 000 People Per Day ³ Dennis Rodman, Fugu/Sutra Costa Mesa, CA, Nightclub/Restaurant, Concept Dev, Bus. Plan ³ Paramount/Viacom, Site Selection for Bubba Gump's Times Square, NYC ³ Luba Hati, Placencia, Belize, Site Review and Conceptual Dev for a new Oceanfront Resort ³ Country Music Café, Nashville Tennessee, Business Plan for a New Themed Chain Concept ³ Firehouse Char Grill, Irvine California, Business Plan/Recipe Development, Training/Opening ³ Hamburger Mary's, Complete Concept Rebuild, All Operating Materials, Managed 12 Units ³ Shaquille O'Neil, Shaq's Steak House, Los Angeles, Business Plan ³ Century Theatres, U.S., New Lobby Bar Concept, Operational Manuals, Training/Opening ³ WingNuts Restaurants, Costa Mesa, CA, Original Business Plan for a "Hot Concept" ³ St Moritz Hotel, NYC, Operational Analysis ³ The Irvine Company, Irvine CA, The Spectrum, Feasibility Study ³ MCS, Burbank Airport, Burbank CA, New Operating Materials/Trained & Opened Facilities Recent work includes rebuilding a unique full service casual restaurant company with franchised stores in 14 cities with $25M in sales. This job included complete re-development; conceptual, operating and new food & beverage as well as creating new concept prototype model, training and opening. Company average store sales of $1.3M moved to $1.75M and the new store average became $2.6M with the inception of the concept model at the company store. Hotel and casino operational analysis projects as well as complete development of a unique Last Vegas style nightclub concept in Southern California. Planning and directing celebrity catering events keeps Scott’s skills well-honed, with more than 260 celebrity functions to date. In order that you better understand that "hotels have been a big part of my career" I thought providing the names of hotels I worked in, or consulted for would be helpful. Some of those hotels, include the following: Boca Raton Hotel & Club, Boca Raton , FL Le Bel Age Hotel, Los Angeles , CA Hotel Pamilla, Los Cabos Mexico Regent International Hotels, Regent Beverly Wilshire, Beverly Hills, CA Peabody Hotels, Memphis , TN , Little Rock , AR Royal Palms, Scottsdale , Arizona L’Auberge Del Mar Resort and Spa, Del Mar, CA The Hotel Del Coronado, Coronado , CA The Argent Hotel, San Francisco , CA Royal Palms Hotel & Casitas, Phoenix/Scottsdale, AZ Vail Cascade Hotel & Club, Vail, CO Inverness Hotel & Golf Club, Denver, CO Sunriver Hotel & Resort, Bend , OR Ameristar Hotel Casinos, Las Vegas, NV, St. Louis, MO Vicksburg, MS, St Charles, MO, Council Bluffs, IA, Kansas City, MO St Moritz Hotel , NY , NY Luba Hati Hotel Resort, Placencia , Belize Airtel Hotel, Los Angeles , CA Silverton Hotel Casino, Las Vegas , NV Bluewater Hotel Resort Casino, Parker AZ Westin Rio Mar Hotel Resort, Puerto Rico Scott is the perfect forward-thinking candidate for the position. Thanks, Scott Kamalski |