Move Up From Restaurant Manager to Multi-Site Careers

About the Book

Tired of being a restaurant manager? Do you love the restaurant business but feel you have so much more to offer if you were promoted to a higher level. Do you want to positively impact many more customers and team members in a multi-site Area Management, Training or HR role? Do you want to make more money and have more control of your schedule? The author, Tony Petrucci, made it from Restaurant Manager to Area Manager to HR Vice President for a Fortune 500 company.

Move Up From Restaurant Manager to Multi-Site Careers is a complete Career Advancement guide that shows you how to achieve a life changing opportunity in Area Management, Training or HR. Move Up describes the rewarding careers in these areas of multi-site leadership. It describes a detailed model of what makes a great multi-site leader. It provides a roadmap to obtain the needed skills for promotion, develop a personal marketing plan, build a high impact resume and develop world class interviewing skills to help you land the opportunity of your dreams.

The authors have dedicated their careers to helping restaurant managers succeed in moving up or out of the restaurant business. Their website, restaurantmovement.com, has a host of affordable products for the restaurant manager to help them succeed as well as a free, fun and informative newsletter called the "Underground Restaurant".

About the Author

After four years in the US Army as a transportation officer, Tony went to work for Pizza Hut as the Restaurant General Manager for the Drake University Pizza Hut in Des Moines, Iowa. In a period of just seven years Tony went from Restaurant General Manager to Vice President of Human Resources for the Refreshment Services division of ARAMARK, a Fortune 500 company. In this role, some of his responsibilities were staffing, training, development and performance management for the sales force of the Refreshments Services division. Along the way, he held the positions of Restaurant District Manager, Restaurant Human Resources Manager, Human Resources Director and Senior Human Resources Director. Tony is currently the President of Career Movement, a staffing and career development company that specializes in sales and restaurant management.

Tony has been quoted, published or featured in publications such as Nations Restaurant News, HR Executive, Workforce.com, CBS Marketwatch, Yahoo Finance, Journal of Corporate Recruiting Leadership, Chief Learning Officer, HR.com, Veritude, Vending Times, OCS and Vending Magazine and Automatic Merchandiser.

In addition, Tony and his team have received awards from the American Society for Training Development for Performance Improvement, the Society of Human Resource Managers for their work in Career Branding and Selling Power magazine for being recognized as one of the top ten companies to sell for in the United States. He has also served as an awards judge for Chief Learning Officer magazine and the National Collegiate Sales Competition. He has been a featured speaker at international conferences such as the World Trade Group, HR Executives Summit, Melcrum's Strategic HR Summit and the National Automated Merchandisers Association (Refreshment Services Industry Organization) as an expert on career development, staffing, training, performance improvement and customer service management. Tony is also on the Board of Directors for the Kennesaw State University National Collegiate Sales Competition and sits on the editorial board for Chief Learning Officer magazine. He speaks frequently at various graduate and undergraduate classes.

He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering Technology from the University of Dayton. He received his MBA from the University of Louisville.