Dennis Berkowitz - South San Francisco, CA (Click for CV)
Untitled Document
Dennis Berkowitz
120 East Grand Avenue
South San Francisco, CA 94080
Telephone: (650) 873-6297
Fax: (650) 872-6461
Email: Berkonut@maxsworld.com
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Professional Restaurateur and Restaurant
Consultant
Owner & President of San Francisco
Bay area's largest independent restaurant company
Over 40 years of food and beverage
production and service experience
Design and development experience
for food and beverage operations in hotels and free standing restaurants from
Bally's and The Palm in Las Vegas to Hyatt Hotels & Resorts around the globe
Over 40 years of drafting standards,
training and supervising food and beverage employees
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
MAX'S WORLD, SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO
Founder and President, 1978- Present
San Francisco Bay Area restaurant
company currently operating 14 restaurants with one under construction in Skokie,
Illinois
HYATT HOTELS & RESORTS, CHICAGO,
IL
Vice President, Food and Beverage Operations, 1971-1978
Designed and developed 40 hotels
and 200 restaurants
Responsible for concept design,
image, menus, recipes and opening of all food and beverage facilities chain
wide
Responsible for food, beverage and
service standards, training, supervision and quality control chain wide
FAIRMONT HOTELS, SAN FRANCISO,
CA
Vice President, Food and Beverage Operations, 1967-1971
Responsible for concept design,
image, menus, recipes and opening of all food and beverage facilities chain
wide
Responsible for food, beverage and
service standards, training, supervision and quality control chain wide
HOTEL CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Now
Sonesta Hotels & Resorts)
Food and Beverage Director, 1963-1967
Somerset Hotel, Boston, MA
Charter House Hotel, Euclid, OH
Charter House Hotel, Newton, MA
MILITARY SERVICE
UNITED STATES ARMY
Achieved rank of First Lieutenant, 1961-1963
Caterer for Department of Defense
Officers Club, Washington, DC
Club Officer, Fort McNair, Washington,
DC
EDUCATION
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, EAST LANSING, MI
B.A. Restaurant Management/Business,
1961
ASSOCIATIONS / DISTINCTIONS
Youngest winner of IFMA - Food Operator
of the Year (Silver Plate) most prestigious food service industry award
Board Member, San Francisco Convention
& Visitors Bureau
Member, California Restaurant Association
Instructor, San Francisco City College,
School of Restaurant & Hotel Management
| |
.jpg)
THE HOTEL EXPERTS