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Experienced Food and Beverage Manager and Executive Chef
Christopher Clawson
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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As a classically trained chef my key focus has always been fresh food and during my time in London I co-created and launched Burger Craft, a fresh burger brand, on behalf of PubLove.
I took that brand to the National Burger Awards where I was a finalist, won the Development Chef of the year at the Eat Out Awards and came in the top ten burgers in London two years in a row with Twenty Something London.
I also moved the PubLove brand towards a craft and premium offering transforming their position in the market place.
Together we launched three new pubs in central London and successfully relaunched four of the pubs in the estate post refurbishment.
Hugely passionate about the hospitality industry as a whole, I have many years of experience both front and back of house, training, recruitment and financial management with a good track record of building successful offers that engage with the customers and staff.
I took that brand to the National Burger Awards where I was a finalist, won the Development Chef of the year at the Eat Out Awards and came in the top ten burgers in London two years in a row with Twenty Something London.
I also moved the PubLove brand towards a craft and premium offering transforming their position in the market place.
Together we launched three new pubs in central London and successfully relaunched four of the pubs in the estate post refurbishment.
Hugely passionate about the hospitality industry as a whole, I have many years of experience both front and back of house, training, recruitment and financial management with a good track record of building successful offers that engage with the customers and staff.
Markets
United Kingdom
Language
English
Fluently
Ready for
Larger project
Ongoing relation / part-time
Full time contractor
Available
My experience
2017 - ?
job
FOOD AND BEVERAGE MANAGER
unknown.
PUBLOVE
Publove is a pub and hostel chain seven sites strong based in central London. As the Food and Beverage Manager it was my job to drive forward sales across both revenue streams while maintaining strong financial controls to manage the GP and controllable costs.
Main responsibilities include:
• Drive sales through innovation, events and strong focus on staff training
• Creating stretching budgets and responsible for achieving targets on the P&L including wage control, revenue and EBITDA
• Recruit and engage team members of all levels in the brand and products
• Create and deliver effective training and inductions for team members
• Manage procurement of all food and drink for the business ensuring GP targets are met, budgets hit and new and interesting products were available in the pubs
• Development of a Chef Academy to ensure retention and promotion of internal candidates to senior positions
• Coordinate with the Marketing Manager to come up with new events and promotions to drive trade
• Create fresh food menus that ticked all the required boxes while touching on current trends in the industry
• Created and launched a pizza offer in Pimlico
• Curate a core drinks list that promoted a strong London focus, hit GP targets and included new and upcoming breweries
• Instrumental in all new openings and post refurbishment launches. Responsible for installing the food and drink offering, recruitment, training, diligence and budgeting
Publove is a pub and hostel chain seven sites strong based in central London. As the Food and Beverage Manager it was my job to drive forward sales across both revenue streams while maintaining strong financial controls to manage the GP and controllable costs.
Main responsibilities include:
• Drive sales through innovation, events and strong focus on staff training
• Creating stretching budgets and responsible for achieving targets on the P&L including wage control, revenue and EBITDA
• Recruit and engage team members of all levels in the brand and products
• Create and deliver effective training and inductions for team members
• Manage procurement of all food and drink for the business ensuring GP targets are met, budgets hit and new and interesting products were available in the pubs
• Development of a Chef Academy to ensure retention and promotion of internal candidates to senior positions
• Coordinate with the Marketing Manager to come up with new events and promotions to drive trade
• Create fresh food menus that ticked all the required boxes while touching on current trends in the industry
• Created and launched a pizza offer in Pimlico
• Curate a core drinks list that promoted a strong London focus, hit GP targets and included new and upcoming breweries
• Instrumental in all new openings and post refurbishment launches. Responsible for installing the food and drink offering, recruitment, training, diligence and budgeting
Marketing, Innovation, Training, Procurement, Sales, It, Recruitment, Development, Retention, Manager, UP
2013 - 2017
job
EXECUTIVE CHEF AND TRAINING MANAGER, PUBLOVE
unknown.
My key objective when recruited for Publove was to convert the food offering in the five sites from frozen pizza to fresh food.
Main responsibilities include:
• Creation and launch of Burger Craft, our fresh food offering, responsible for menu creation, costings and designed easy to follow spec's for the Chef team
• Recruit, train and develop a team that could deliver a fresh food offer to a high standard
• Design kitchens that that would fit into existing pubs with limited space
• GP management
• Procurement
• Future proof Chef recruitment through a strong induction and engagement package
• Follow food trends to ensure we were in line with the industry
Previous employers include Geronimo, Fullers and Boisdale in London where I had various senior kitchen roles. I'm happy to provide detail if needed.
Main responsibilities include:
• Creation and launch of Burger Craft, our fresh food offering, responsible for menu creation, costings and designed easy to follow spec's for the Chef team
• Recruit, train and develop a team that could deliver a fresh food offer to a high standard
• Design kitchens that that would fit into existing pubs with limited space
• GP management
• Procurement
• Future proof Chef recruitment through a strong induction and engagement package
• Follow food trends to ensure we were in line with the industry
Previous employers include Geronimo, Fullers and Boisdale in London where I had various senior kitchen roles. I'm happy to provide detail if needed.
Design, Training, Procurement, Management, Recruitment, Detail, Manager
My education
NEWTONABBEY INSTITUTE
N/a, FOOD SAFETY AND HYGIENE LEVEL THREE
N/a, FOOD SAFETY AND HYGIENE LEVEL THREE
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