Mr. Richard Robaix
International Consultant, Hotel Solutions Hospitality Nig. Ltd.
Mr. Richard Robaix was born in 1960. He holds an MBA of Hotel School of Glion French Baccalaureate-Economic section.
He started his professional career as food and beverage cost controller in Benin Sheraton Hotel,Republic of Benin between 1982-1984 where he actively set up all the accounting procedures for the opening of the hotel’s accounting department.
He moved to Novotel between 1984-1985 Abu-Dhabi United Arab Emirates as Assistant Food and
Beverage Manager, he changed the operation therein for better and opened a new outlet “Le Bistro”.
Between 1985 and 1987, he was the Assistant Food & Beverage manager of Novotel Dowe, Libreville,
Gabon. During this period, he worked as Duty Manager, training instructor; more so, he was on special
mission to Gabon where he was the Assistant Food and Beverage Manager at Sofitel Libreville and
Manager at Relais de l’lvindo. He was a co-controller at Caisieres Paquet M/S Memoz.
In 1987, he moved to Novotel Cayenne, French Guyana at Food and Beverage Manager till 1990. He was involved in the set up of the procedures, and ensuring high level of turnover for the F & B and maintained high level of profit margin through costs control.
Between 1990 and 1992, he worked at Kairaba Beach Hotel, Gambia where he opened the 5-star resort
and conference Center, a hotel of 120 rooms as a Food & Beverage Manager. He also worked with Goisieres Paquit and Cruise Ships of a 5-star standard.
He joined Eko Hotel (Le Meridian) Lagos, Nigeria in 1992 as Food & Beverage Manager till 1994, He
joined V-shops, Monaco between 1994 and 2000 where he served as Food & Beverage Manager till 1996
before he proceeded to Novotel Accra, Ghana to manage the Food & Beverage department of 175-bedroom hotel with 60 staffers under him.
He served as Food & Beverage Manager at Sofitel Cairo Maadi, Egypt and moved between the year 2000-2009 annual turnover of the hotel to 4 million Euros with 180, 000 covers. He equally improved the internal training of the staffers.
He later joined Hotel Solutions Hospitality Nigeria Limited as its international consultant.
