Christopher Baumhour

Background

About Christopher Baumhour

Management • 20 years of management experience • QSR/FSR/lounges and pub experience • Multi unit experience • Wedding and Event Planning • Catering and Banquet Leadership Traits • Confident, well spoken, teacher, listener, balance work load, fair, team builder, open door, equal opportunist, hands on, time manager, functional, dependable, learns from mistakes philosophy Sales/Catering/Banquets • Accustomed to $80-600k in sales volumes per week • Very involved in menu development • Eager to learn the wine business • Builds multi unit sales projections regularly • Leads with a common sense sales mindset Profit/Reporting • Core labor, food costing and cost controls, beverage costing, budgets, controllables, variance reports, scheduling, investment analysis – new concepts, opening budgets and forecasting and P&L's. Training Experience • 15+ years of training experience • Trained multiple managers through the system to F&B manager level positions • Spends 40% of time with new employee training and 60% hands on functional training • Aggressive results based trainer • Train the trainer experience Recruiting • Responsible for all front line, supervisor and screening high level managers • Exposed to orientations – large scale, performance reviews and promotional movement decisions • 15 years of recruiting experience • Experienced with high turnover, 24/7 business