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Ahmed Alaaeldin

Ahmed Alaaeldin

Operations Management | Hotel | Catering | Restaurant | Café | Lounge | Events
Jeddah, Riyadh

Summary

Passionate hospitality professional with a mission to exceed expectations and deliver outstanding results. Experienced in leading operations, driving customer service performance, and improving operational efficiency, Bringing innovation to the table, and driving success through creative solutions.
Helping brands reach their goals through creative solutions, I specialize in menu engineering, quality control, and creating brand audit systems to ensure the sustainability of business standards to Increase revenue and sustainability at the same time, let's make your business reach its highest potential.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
2
2
Languages
7
7
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Director of Operations

Nahez Company
Taif, SA
03.2021 - Current
  • Monitor budgets and payroll records, and review financial transactions to ensure that expenditures are authorized and budgeted
  • Establish standards for personnel performance and customer service
  • Plan menus and food utilization based on anticipated number of guests, nutritional value, palatability, popularity, and costs
  • Test cooked food by tasting and smelling it to ensure palatability and flavor conformity
  • Organize and direct worker training programs, resolve personnel problems, hire new staff, and evaluate employee performance in dining and lodging facilities
  • Order and purchase equipment and supplies
  • Review work procedures and operational problems to determine ways to improve service, performance, or safety
  • Review menus and analyze recipes to determine labor and overhead costs, and assign prices to menu items
  • Create specialty dishes and develop recipes to be used in dining facilities
  • Identifying profits and losses and operating within the allotted budget
  • Conducting quarterly Brand Audits to ensure the following of the brand standard
  • Understanding the key revenue drivers and identifying areas for improvement
  • Creating a contingency strategic plan during a crisis.

Restaurant General Manager

Bateel International L.L.C
Jeddah, SA
11.2018 - 03.2021
  • Managing the Café team and retail Boutique in an efficient operation
  • Providing the highest standard of food and beverage quality and retail S.O.P
  • Manage the catering deals with high-end Clients like (Royal Protocol, Private Affairs, Aramco, Petro Rabegh, etc.)
  • Participation in the events of the Diriyah Formula
  • Improving presentation and customer service standards aiming to delight and exceed guests' expectations
  • Being responsible for meeting the outlets revenue and profitability goals
  • Driving sales proactively to generate revenue growth
  • Ensuring consistent warm, thoughtful and sincere guests' experience through a personalized approach and attention to details
  • Responding efficiently to customers' queries and concerns
  • Maintaining sensitivity, politeness and professionalism at all times
  • Observing the managers control in minimizing wastage and product Damage
  • Conducting monthly Brand Audits to ensure maintaining the brand standard.

Restaurant General Manager

Arabian Entertainment Co. Ltd, SEDCO Holding | Applebee's, Ocean Basket
Jeddah, SA
11.2015 - 11.2018
  • Training newly hired staff according to the brand standard for FOH & BOH through the training manual & Recipes including all operation procedures
  • Responsibility for handling restaurant petty cash & food cost and P&L
  • Managing the Inventory, setting up the Par-level and re- ordering quantity for each item
  • Daily checking food quality and keeping on high-quality food and beverage
  • Standardizing products processing methods to match and comply with the concept-level standards
  • Responsibility for leading daily operation and handling complaints & guest satisfaction
  • Responsible to be as a guest relation for reflecting that on restaurant revenue
  • Maintaining issues and reporting to the maintenance department
  • Following up with any challenges or contests coming from the brand office
  • Maintaining the restaurant through cleanses and facilities and Assessment standards for each quarter, yearly international audit & assessment
  • Conducting weekly managers meetings, monthly expert severs meetings, and general meetings to deliver the instructions and strategic business plan
  • Participate in American Embassy Events through catering services
  • Achievement: maintaining excellent food quality and a high score of international brand assessment

Sales & Marketing Director

ALIDRISSI Group | PAUL depuis 1889
Jeddah, SA
04.2013 - 11.2015
  • Creating a new database for potential guests
  • Launching Luxury catering services
  • Starting new marketing campaign (magazines – social media - emails)
  • Participation in an international book fair at Jeddah
  • Increasing the company revenue by delivery service & catering Services
  • Providing luxury catering services to (Al Haramain Train
  • Project - one of the prince's Palaces – SABB Bank, etc.)
  • Following up guests' satisfactions through call back for guest feedback
  • Finding new sources to increase the dining guest and the catering clients
  • Creating offers to attract potential guests
  • Achievement Increased the sales by 15% within 3 months

Education

Bachelor of Tourism And Hotels Management - Business Administration

Higher Institute of Tourism And Hotel Management, Alexandria
09.2003 - 05.2007
  • Completed AP course in International Computer Driving License (ICDL) 2009 by Alexandria University

Certified Restaurant Server - Hotel Management Course

AHLEI - American Hotel & Lodging Educational Insti, United States
04.2018 - 02.2019

Foundations of Project Management - Project Management

Authorized By Google, Coursera
04.2021 - 11.2021

Communication And Interpersonal Skills At Work - Communication Skills

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, United Kingdom
09.2021 - 09.2021

Digital Marketing -

Accenture, Unuited Kingdom
10.2021 - 10.2021

English For Career Development MOOC - Career Development

(U.S. Department of State, U.S
07.2022 - 07.2022

DESIGNING A FUTURE WHERE LEARNING IS A LIFESTYLE - Self-Development

SAMSUNG, Future Learn
09.2021 - 09.2021

Diploma - Business Communication

CTCHD, Egypt
10.2011 - 10.2012

Diploma - Sales & Marketing

CTCHD, Egypt
05.2010 - 05.2011

Oracle Material Control - Inventory Management System

Oracle, Saudi Arabia
02.2021 - 02.2021

Safety Food at - undefined

Azure Hotel
2007

Skills

  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Strong verbal communication
  • Leadership engagement
  • P&L Administration
  • Coordination
  • Positive attitude
  • Self-confidence
  • Relationship Building
  • Business Growth Initiatives
  • Operations Oversight
  • Job Assignments
  • Finance and Accounting Oversight
  • Motivational Leadership
  • Business Management
  • Quality Assurance
  • Budget Controls
  • Improve Performance
  • Operational Leadership
  • Facility Improvement
  • Business Policies and Procedures
  • Cost Control
  • Inventory Tracking and Management
  • Performance Analysis
  • Strategize Business Plans
  • Policy Development and Enforcement
  • Waste Management and Reduction
  • Leadership Training
Ahmed AlaaeldinOperations Management | Hotel | Catering | Restaurant | Café | Lounge | Events