For the tasting, Florence Fabricant and I were joined by Chase Rabenn, assistant beer director at Colicchio & Sons, and Kirk Kelewae, dining room manager at Eleven Madison Park, who oversees the restaurant's beer list.
When Jennifer Edwards, 21, graduates from Lasell College this spring, she said, she will miss her job as a dining hall manager at Lasell Village, the retirement community.
For the tasting, Florence Fabricant and I were joined by Rick Pitcher, the sommelier and dining room manager at Gotham Bar and Grill, and Mary Ewing-Mulligan, a wine educator and writer who is also a Master of Wine.
Add to this a good 30 years spent in and around the Bay Area restaurant world — she is married to chef and salumiere Christopher Lee, and was dining room manager at Chez Panisse for years — and the result is a uniquely informed eye and palate.
"I've packed up my sentimental stuff, cause you never know what the wind is going to do," said Lisa Pyles, dining room manager for the West Glacier Cafe, which has remained open even though the entrance to the park is closed here.
The restaurant management literature does not provide fine dining restaurant managers with the tools that enable them to evaluate and make changes to wine list selections, pricing and inventory levels in order to improve the returns from the investment in wine inventory.
Economizing was only one objective in the beekeeping proposal submitted by two of Mr. Pierce's food service employees — Amy Gronus, a production chef and backyard beekeeper, and Steven Anthony, a dining services assistant manager.
Afterward, she studied to be a chef at the Florida Culinary Institute in West Palm Beach, Florida, and subsequently worked as the dining room manager and activities director at an assisted living community for seniors.
Mrs. Grande became the dining room manager of their new restaurant, Il Capriccio.
In 2002, the club's dining room manager pleaded guilty to stealing $163,000 that was supposed to go for sales taxes on meals.
