Ankit Painuly

F&b professional with 10 years of experience in Food and Beverage. Hard-worker person who likes to challenge new things. Main focus on Teamwork, Standard Operating Procedure SOP. Developed skills in being innovative, generating revenue and multitasking ability.

Banquet Manager at Ramada By Wyndham (2024-10 – Present)

• Handling one of the biggest banqueting in the city
• Negotiate contracts and deals with vendors and suppliers, who are supplying their services to the event
• Assign roles and duties to the staff and ensure that the event goes as per the plan
• Raise and settle the checks as per FP instructions
• Converting guest queries into business

F&B Supervisor (Pre-Opening) at Rixos Al Mairid (2024-10 – 2025-08)

• Creating competitive menu
• Recruiting, Interviewing and training staff to follow the restaurant's SOPs
• Prepare rota for the team
• Ordering Capex for the restaurant
• Managing P&L of the restaurant
• Maintaining beverages stock and inventory
• Managing payroll for the team members through OAYSYS
• Creating the seasonal menu
• Improving revenue by bringing new ideas and increase the sales
• Handling the guests complaints and solving the issue immediately
• Achieving the KPI targets given by the management

Outlet Incharge at Rixos Al Mairid (2022-07 – 2024-09)

F&b Senior Assistant at Grand Hyatt Dubai (2021-08 – 2022-04)

• Worked at Italian restaurant 'Andiamo'
• Providing excellent wait service to ensure satisfaction
• Taking guests orders and delivering food and beverages
• Making menu recommendations, answering questions and sharing additional information with restaurant patrons
• Offer menu recommendations upon request
• Up-sell high end items from menu when appropriate

F&b Supervisor (Pre-Opening) at Dubai Expo 2020 - Zabeel Palace Hospitality (2020-02 – 2021-08)

• Meet and greet guests
• Oversee catered functions, in house and off site
• Responsible for making the function space visually appealing and presenting the menu offering for the event
• Responsible for consistently implementing the service standards and operating procedures in the banquet and Catering service
• Provide excellent customer service and ensure guests needs are met

F&b Captain at Stella Di Mare Dubai Marina (2018-11 – 2020-02)

• Looking after a busy all day dining restaurant with 240 indoor and 124 outdoor seating
• Assisting manager to prepare rota
• Ordering and issuing of items
• Handling guests complaints
• Incharge of all day dining restaurant in the absence of supervisor
• Focused on beverage sale
• Managing beverage inventory and ordering

F&b Assistant at The Oberoi Dubai (2017-02 – 2018-11)

• Worked in a Fine dining restaurant at 'Ananta'
• Preparing bar mise en place for the operation
• Handling One section of the restaurant
• Ordering beverages for the restaurant's
• Handling cashiering
• Always following LQA standards

F&b Assistant at The Address Dubai Marina (2016-08 – 2016-12)

• Handling one of the biggest and busiest banquet operation in Dubai marina
• Preparing meeting rooms as per BEO'S requirements
• Arranging coffee breaks
• Preparing mise en place for daily operation
• Handling guests complaints
• Taking payment as per head count

F&B Internship at Jw Marriot Dubai (2016-08 – 2016-12)

• Worked in one of best Marriot property in UAE
• Got trained from some of the best professionals
• Learnt F&b operation and challenges

Hospitality Management – Uei Global Institute (2015 – 2018)

Level 1 in In Wines – Wine & Spirit Education Trust