Five Iron Golf UAE

General Manager

Freelance Consultant

voco Bonnington Dubai

Food and Beverage Manager

Majid Al Futtaim

Multi Restaurant Manager

Expo 2020 Dubai

Multi Venue Manager

JA Resorts & Hotels

Overseeing ‘Eighty One’ all day dining restaurant (400 covers), lobby lounge and in room 
dining departments, with a total combined revenue of £4.5 million per annum. Reporting 
directly to the F&B Director I planned an executed the post-covid re-opening of Lake View 
Hotel (348 rooms / 800 guests) within the resort. I was fully accountable for the P&L for all 3 
outlets, all hiring, training and development of team members and supervisors.

Multi Outlet Manager

The Cheesecake Factory

Fully accountable for day to day operations of 500+ cover restaurant offering a complete freshly made food menu. Annual turnover in excess of £17 million and responsible for 320 team members. I worked in 8 sites across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar and Bahrain. My main goals here were to coach and develop our management team to the highest possible level, ensuring we could deliver world class hospitality consistently. 

During my time I was personally accountable for bar and bakery sales in my restaurant, this includes validating par levels, ordering, inventory and scheduling for sales around £6 million per annum. I worked closely with the bakery and beverages operations manager on recipe development and served as a ‘test kitchen’ for our GCC restaurants. I opened 4 new restaurants including the most lucrative in the history of the company when we opened our flagship restaurant in Doha, Qatar. My restaurant was awarded ‘Most Profitable’ restaurant award in the Alshaya Group 2018 & 2019.

Assistant General Manager - Alshaya Group

Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group

As general manager of Jamie’s Italian I was responsible for all business operations, budgeting and forecasting, team development, stock control, payroll, recruitment and HR. I was involved with many new restaurant openings in addition to running a 200-cover restaurant with over 80 team members and an annual turnover of £2.6 million.

My greatest achievements whilst here were managing to turn the restaurant around from loss making to profitable in my first year as general manager & winning the ‘Champions of Culture’ award for our restaurant. I was also personally recognized during the annual JORG awards for having the highest staff retention rate across the country.

Restaurant Manager

The Chester Arms - Gastro Pub

I opened this restaurant with the Chef Patron who was starting his first business. I used my skills and knowledge to help both kitchen and front of house operations to succeed in their first year. I was highly involved in menu development and food costing at this time.

Sous Chef

The Purple Goose - Fine Dining

Ranked the number one restaurant in Milton Keynes on ‘Trip Advisor’ during my time there. This was a small 55 cover fine dining restaurant with an annual turnover circa £800,000.

An experienced manager with a track record of launching new restaurants, growing 
established restaurants and turning around 
loss making restaurants.

Over 15 years of food and beverage management  experience throughout the United Kingdom, Qatar & UAE.

A career restaurateur who has expert 
knowledge of independent and branded 
restaurants. Strong food background and a 
huge passion for delivering world class 
hospitality



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