Assistant Manager - Gulf Coast Jacks DBA Jack in the Box - Houston, TX
(2025-06 - 2026-06)
Assistant Manager for multiple stores with annual sales as much as $2.5M.
- Oversee day-to-day restaurant activities, ensuring food is prepared quickly, correctly, and safely
- Monitor drive-thru and front counter performance while meeting sales targets and operational goals
- Track performance metrics (speed of service, food quality, etc.) to maintain high customer satisfaction standards and speed of service goals
- Supervise crew members and shift leaders
- Motivate staff and maintain a positive work environment
- Handle employee issues and discipline at store level
- Manage cash registers and daily deposits
- Track sales, labor costs, and budgets to help control costs (food, labor, inventory)
- Ensure accurate reporting of daily/weekly financials
- Ensure customers receive fast and friendly service
- Handle complaints and resolve issues professionally
- Maintaining accurate inventory of food, beverages, and supplies while reducing waste
- Ensure proper storage and food quality
- Follow food safety and sanitation regulations
- Ensure employees follow hygiene rules (handwashing, food handling)
- Maintain compliance with company policies and local laws
- Team player flexible in shifts and stores worked – often at short notice - to cover needs of franchise
Assistant Manager - Fajita Pete's - Hedwig Village, Houston, TX
(2024-06 - 2025-06)
Assistant Manager for a delivery- and catering-focused Tex-Mex restaurant concept built around convenience, quality, and simplicity. Fajita Pete's offer primarily delivery, takeout, and catering, with limited or no dine-in seating. Strong focus on corporate catering, events, and large group orders with streamlined kitchens for high-efficiency production rather than dine-in experience. Responsibilities included usual management functions as well as catering planning, execution and support.
Assistant Manager - Harris County Smokehouse - Cypress, TX
(2018-06 - 2024-06)
Assistant Manager for front and back of the house in a cafeteria style barbeque restaurant with annual sales of $2.4M.
- Coordinating communication between front and back of the house staff
- Supervised kitchen and wait staff and aided, as needed; trained in all roles
- Arranged for new employees' proper onboarding (completing paperwork, filing documentation and scheduling/providing training)
- Monitored compliance with safety and hygiene regulations
- Gathered guests' feedback and recommended procedures to minimize service issues
- Received and checked in meat and produce orders
- Trimmed and seasoned briskets and ensured quantity was sufficient for future shifts
- Assisted in kitchen during peak business as expediter
- Provided back up to catering team, assisting with delivery, setup and service on orders up to $15K
Restaurant Operator - Frankie's Gourmet Hotdogs - Multiple Locations, Houston, TX
(2013-01 - 2013-12)
Also worked for a brick and mortar version of this concept in 2013 providing miscellaneous maintenance services for the owner of this business, including power washing, working on equipment, cleaning food trucks, etc.
- Performed all necessary duties to set up and run a propane powered hot dog cart kiosk, usually alone
- Cooked food, took orders and payments, cleaned and closed
- Prepped food for future shifts
- Set up and tore down cart daily and cleaned parts
Restaurant Operator - Frankie's Gourmet Hotdogs - Multiple Locations, Houston, TX
(2020-01 - 2021-12)
Beck's Prime
(2018-01 - 2018-12)
IHOP
(2016-01 - 2017-12)
Multiple Roles (Counter Help, Cook, Maintenance, Shift Leader, Manager Trainee) - Jack in the Box 3603 - Katy, TX
(2014-01 - 2016-12)
- Take and prepare orders for completion within the given time period
- Prep food for back of house
- Food prep/cook (grill, fry, expedite)
- Trained on Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) used to monitor and ensure food safety
- Maintained fryers
- Power washed as needed
- Completed all available training modules up to Assistant Manager
- Disassembled and cleaned shake machine daily
- Deep cleaned refrigerators and freezer quarterly
Fuzzy's Pizza
(2013-01 - 2015-12)
Adams Tree Service
(2011-01 - 2012-12)