TIMOTHY DRESSEL

Director of Food & Beverage Hospitality Leadership Beverage Strategy

Hospitality.

Without Compromise.

Hospitality

Hospitality is built on trust, consistency, and stewardship. I've led restaurants, hotel bars, beverage programs, and operational turnarounds—from luxury hotels to chef-driven restaurants.

My work combines financial discipline with thoughtful guest experience, building systems that earn trust, strengthen teams, and create places guests return for years.

Expertise

  • Great hospitality is built on disciplined operations. I create systems that allow teams to execute consistently across every shift, balancing guest experience with labor efficiency, profitability, and accountability. Whether opening a new concept or improving an existing one, my focus is building processes that continue delivering results long after implementation.

  • Design beverage programs that balance creativity, profitability, and operational consistency—from neighborhood cocktail bars to luxury hotels.

  • Improve beverage cost, purchasing, inventory control, menu engineering, and labor efficiency without compromising the guest experience.

  • Develop hospitality systems that increase guest satisfaction, encourage repeat business, and strengthen brand reputation.

  • Lead new concepts, reposition struggling operations, and implement scalable systems that continue performing after launch.

  • Work alongside ownership, general managers, chefs, designers, and vendors to align operations with long-term business objectives.

Selected Work

Recognition & Results

My work earned Best Bartender recognition in consecutive years—first at Cobalt Smoke & Sea, then at Noto, where the restaurant was also recognized in the Best New Restaurant category during the pandemic.

Concepts
Cobalt + Noto Italian

Year
2019 - 2020

What They Said

“Tim is seriously the best and he never complains.”

‍ ‍Ben Poremba

James Beard Finalist

‍ ‍Bar Moro

“Amazing creative talent. Great Work!”

‍ ‍Jose Hernandez

Top Chef Finalist

Radio Milano

“He’s a beast. His skills are insane!”

Ja’Nel Witt

Hell’s Kitchen Winner

Sonoma