About Us

Company Profile

We are a Nationwide Hospitality Placement Firm, with our main offices in New Jersey. We work exclusively in the Hospitality Industry, placing people at all levels of management, culinary and corporate positions. We work with Restaurants, Food Service, Clubs and Hotels throughout the entire country and in several International markets. We are a contingency fee paid agency, licensed by the State of New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety.

Our purpose is to live up to our motto "Creating futures for Candidates and Profits for Clients".

All of our candidates and clients will be treated with dignity, courtesy and respect; even in the most difficult of circumstances.

Our function is to make introductions of candidates to companies for selection, based on experience in the hospitality industry. We must be able to ascertain not only the mechanical responsibilities of a given
position but the underlying personality necessary for productive performance in a position that will lead to growth and increased earnings potential. If we understand a candidates true strength and understand
the different concepts of our industry we can begin the process of creating an opportunity. Good companies are always looking for good candidates.

Understand that we cannot make a company hire an individual any more that we can make an individual accept any offered position. What we can do is help them see the positives and negatives, to understand
the "Big Picture", and illustrate the potentialities.

The success of our endeavors lies in positive interviews.

The People

Our company is operated and led by three divisional heads:

Mark Chernin, President - whose formal Culinary education (Culinary Institute of America '75) and past experience as a Corporate Executive Chef for a Chain of High Volume, Waterfront, Fresh Seafood Restaurant 's from New Jersey to Florida, and years as an R&D Chef and General Manager for Stouffer's Restaurant Corporation, as well as a Chef for Hyatt Hotels, give him a specialization with Culinary, Unit and Multi-Unit level Managers as well as all other aspects of restaurants, clubs, hotels, and contract feeding. Mark spent several years with another recruiting firm at the Vice President level prior to founding NHA in 1992.

Justin Babula, Executive Vice President - comes to us with a very strong operations background with Centerplate, providing Foodservice in several of the most prominent Minor and Major League Baseball parks in the Northeast; Yankee Stadium, FedEx Field and FirstEnergy Park to name a few. Justin is a born and raised New Jersey native attending high school in Phillipsburg and went on to earn a degree from Mount Saint Mary's College in Maryland where he studied Latin amongst other things (when you talk with him be sure to ask him how the Latin thing is helping out today). Justin will be specializing the Contract Feeding arena of the office but will also have an active role in all other segments as well.

Michael DiDonato,Vice President - Mike's background is extremely diverse with over 25 years of experience in all aspects of restaurant operations including Owner Operator of an Award Winning Fine Dining Restaurant in New Jersey and many years of experience in High Volume Chain Restaurants as an Opening General Manager with Olive Garden, Hungry Hunter and others on the West Coast. Mike's most recent restaurant venture was as the New Store Opening Coordinator for the then owned McDonalds Corporation-Donatos Pizzeria where he was instrumental in the successful opening of several stores in a short period of time. Since then Mike founded a direct marketing company which his wife is running and is the CEO. Mike's high energy, strong experience and passion to excel make him a welcome addition to NHA's recruiting staff.

These individuals head a staff of associates with a variety of operational backgrounds in the various sectors of the hospitality industry. This depth of experience prior to independent recruiting gives us the edge to more quickly and accurately access the skills and abilities of candidates and the needs of our diverse variety of clients.

All correspondence to our NJ Office

10 Allen Sreet, Suite 2A

Toms River, NJ 08753

Ph. 732-736-0017 Fax 732-736-0051

e-mail: info@nhajobs.com

website www.restaurantmanagerjobs.com