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Richard Mitchell  
118 W. Sunnyslope Dr.                                                                                                                          623.555.1212 
 
Objective:  Bakery Manager 
 
Summary of Skills: 
Customer Service: 
•  Achieved awards for excellent customer service, going above and beyond expectations with every customer 
•  Maintained high standards of customer service, adopting the attitude of “the customer is always right” 
•  Utilized merchandising, customer service, sales focus and shrink control to increase sales from $18,000 
weekly average to $22,000 
 
Supervisory Skills: 
•  Motivated employees to succeed by building strong teams and sharing accountability for the department, this 
led to winning almost 70% of the contests in the district 
•  Organized time and maintained efficiency to run a clean shop and meet all deadlines 
•  Dependable supervisor, maintained a record of no lost days in 6 years with a team that rarely called in sick 
 
Shrink Control: 
•  Reduced shrink levels from 16% to 8% and maintained this low shrink percentage throughout the department 
•  Brought the gross profit up from 38.25% to 41.02% by reducing shrink, utilizing end caps, keeping high 
grossing items full on the tables and reducing items that did not sell 
•  Able to recognize areas of improved efficiency to reduce shrink and save the company a minimum of $80,000 
in shrinkage annually 
•  Gave the customer the freshest possible product by organization and rotation for maximizing sales 
 
Ordering/Inventory Management: 
•  Developed ordering skills to keep inventory down while never running out of product 
•  Maintained no back stock, which required more frequent ordering and better tracking 
•  Ordered high volume for ads and holidays, returned levels to normal when promotions were over 
•  Scheduled the proper employees when receiving loads to maximize rotation and code dating 
•  Prepared inventory throughout the department to insure proper counts which created a higher gross 
•  Knowledgeable in the use of Telzon gun in ordering and price scanning to prevent pricing errors 
•  Consistently had a record of no errors during Weights and Measures audits 
 
Experience: 
Fry's Food & Drug                                                                                                                 Phoenix, AZ 
Bakery Manager                                                                                            October 2005 to December 2010 
 
Gai's Northwest Bakeries                                                                                                                Seattle, WA 
Bakery Supervisor                                                                                                July 2001 to June 2005