I am an eager, professional and committed Chef, who is passionate about great food and whom when working in a kitchen always maintain my finger on the pulse of the heart of establishment. I am committed in developing my personal and culinary abilities to the fullest extent. I have vast long termed experience in cooking high quality breakfast, lunch, and evening meals, while driving food values forward. I am now seeking a suitable position with a company that offers a truly unique environment to work in along with excellent career development opportunities.
Enhanced customer satisfaction level up to 60% by demonstrating fine culinary and management skills in the kitchen and dining area.
Created signature main course dishes and a dessert that are on the menu till date.
Reduced order service time by 30%, through effective order and synchronization in implementation of timely prep exercises at the main course work stations.
• Mentoring, training and supporting junior chefs.
• Prepared and cooked, nutritious and well balanced meals for patrons. • Managed basic preparation of food together with Head Chef.
• Created and decided design of menus with careful management of the quantities of food to be cooked and size of portions to be executed.
• Created dishes for patrons with special dietary or cultural needs.
• Supervised kitchen staff to maintain safety, ensuring personnel always wore appropriate clothing and head wear in accordance with the relevant guidelines.
• Supervised back of the house staff on their daily tasks, created and maintained staff scheduling optimizing in house personnel ensuring and satisfying cost efficiencies.
• Negotiating with sales representatives on the price of orders and supplies.
• Hotline management.
• Created menus by producing taste samplers presented to owners satisfaction which were implemented as part of our daily menu specials.
Completed and graduated with a 3.8 GPA in Associates degree to applied science of Culinary Arts.
Held an internship at the New Jersey performing arts center. Newark, N.J.
Culinary attributes
• Strong desire to instill good practice and procedures in those working with you.
• Mentoring, training and supporting junior chefs.
• Ability to bring creative and commercially viable new lines to the market before any competitors do.
• Physically fit and able to lift heavy goods and stand for long periods of time.
• Able to communicate well with both superiors and subordinates.
• Can accurately estimate food and labor costs.
• Enforcing strict health and hygiene standards in the cooking & food preparation area.
• Assisting head chef in the basic and full preparation of food.
• Management of meal preparations by properly overseeing the quantities of foods to be cooked and the size of portions to be served.
• Creating dishes for clients with special dietary or cultural needs.
• Management of health and OSHA regulations by making sure that kitchen staff always wore appropriate clothing and head wear in
accordance with the relevant state and local law guidelines.
• Negotiating price and productivity of supplies with sales representatives upon purchase orders.
• Maintaining the correct level of fresh, frozen and dried foods in the "walk-in" as well as store room.
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