valerie musto
Address: 520 McLaws St.
City: Savannah
State: ga
Zip: 31405
Country: United States
objective
Are you in need of a strong server whose top priority is dedication to her guests? One who strives to exceed any and all expectations, works well under pressure, does not allow herself to be overwhelmed by difficult situations and is always eager to work and will give up personal time to help the right company?
Willing to go above and beyond and am in search of a service position located in a positve atmosphere, amongst like minded and team oriented co workers.
Work Experience
Server (08/02/2010 – 08/05/2013)
Last Employer: Veni Vidi Vici
Contact Person: Leonardo Moura/404-875-8424
Responsibilities: serve guests food and beverages, wine knowledge recommendations to pair with food, maintain side work. answer phones, greet and seat guests, take and confirm reservations, set up tables. worked a lot of private dining functions and large group parties as well as normal dining section,usually at same time.
Accomplishments: gained a lot of Italian wine knowledge.
Server (05/31/2006 – 01/04/2007)
Dining room server, bar area cocktail server, banquet server. Open table. Micros.
Last Employer: Maggiano's
Contact Person: Shannon Earley/770.799.1580
Responsibilities: Dining room server provided full service dining experience and wine service as well as maintaining side work and a clean work environment. Cocktail server in the bar area as well as the bar patio. Provide full dining service to guests in the bar area as well the entire outside patio. Keeping up drink maintenance for standing guests and those at the islands and high tops. Banquet server provided service as set forth by guest itinerary and usually brought on to work these functions on a prior encounter with the guest.
Server (10/01/2007 – 05/19/2010)
Day 1 employee, helped set up and open this franchise.Extensive initial training over a month long as well as continuous training to boost knowledge and selling tools.Open Table.Micros system.
Last Employer: Ruth's Chris
Contact Person: Jim White/706.202.5194
Responsibilities: deliver Ruth's Chris standard of service to guests dining accompanied by full wine service as well as in depth wine knowledge and food pairing. Maintain a clean work environment while side work and general duties kept up to ensure a smooth running shift.
Accomplishments: consistently held highest check average as well as ability to put a bottle of wine on almost every table. won many wine sales contests. Also volunteered to work many Ruth"s Chris sponsored functions such as St. Patrick"s day event as well as SSU sponsored homecoming.
Server (07/01/2006 – 07/07/2007)
dining room server, cocktail server and occasionally hostess using Open table program.
Last Employer: McCormick & Schmicks
Contact Person: Keith Jones/404.521.1236
Responsibilities: Full dining experience to guests as well as keeping up with food expediting and running as well as restaurant cleanliness practices.
server (08/19/2013 – 03/24/2014)
gained valuable wine, liquor and food knowledge
Last Employer: ecco
Contact Person: Peter Chachere/ 404-354-9555
Responsibilities: Provide excellent, well-rounded guest service including wine and food recommendations while maintaining duties to keep restaurant running smoothly throughout shift
Education
Establishment: Georgia State University
Degree: Chemistry
Education Period: 01/03/2001 - 08/04/2005
Speciality: Bachelor of Science
Average Grade: 4.0 - 2.8
Details: Degree not yet received. Not sure if I will pursue career in this field anymore.
Skills
over 13 years experience in various types of restaurants bars and clubs. very comfortable using opentable and doing jobs outside my specified requirements in restaurants to help out when necessary.
Computer Skills: basic computer skills,ACT, EXCEL, basic clerical office skills.
Foreign Language Skills: completed 5 years French and 2 years of Spanish in high school. Better reading/writing than spoken.