Ben Chenoweth Email & Phone Number

Big Sky, Mt, Us

Chef De Cuisine, Baba-November 2019-Present● Opened as Chef of flagship celebrity Chef driven concept Baba by Ming Tsai● Established restaurant culture and successful opening including intensive R&D● Implemented training systems and structures for opening● Overseeing restaurant operations, creating restaurant systems, maintaining restaurant costs below designed budgets ● Involvement with successful debut and execution on worldwide Netflix iconic Iron Chef Legends with Chef Ming TsaiChef De Cuisine, Golf Clubhouse November 2016-November 2019● Developed modern Italian style fine dining menus for the Golf Clubhouse concept ● Responsible for product quality control, staff training, staff scheduling, establishing performance goals and necessities to staff, creating an environment of ownership and maintenance of improved service principles related to standards of the company ● Maximized efficiency for all services facilitating daily meetings with front staff re-enforcing product education and necessary steps of service● Maintained track record of organized structure and consistency to multiple kitchens throughout the company

Ritz Prime Seafood, Grill Concepts: April 2015- October 2016 Newport Beach, CA Executive Chef● Opened as Executive Chef and established restaurant from R&D stages to full operation including entire menu development, restaurant plate ware/smallware● Staffed, trained, supervised entire restaurant for 40+ employees from opening to current including coordinating cross training and employee reviews from team leaders● Created, implemented, enforced all standardized restaurant systems including BOH training manuals, recipes, HACCP management logging; safety, cooling, cleaning, and miscellaneous● Responsible for all budgeted costs through monthly P&L, labor, food cost, inventory, scheduling, R&M, production quality, ordering, and team moral● Responsible for fish butchery, protein breakdowns● Executed nightly featured specials, wine tasting menus, daily amuse bouche● Involvement in all local culinary school programs; events, mentorship, internships

● Opening Executive Chef of known San Francisco Michelin starred restaurant group with restaurant group founder Chef Bradley Ogden ● Opened first restaurant of the Michelin starred restaurant group collection in Southern California● Daily job responsibilities include ordering, inputting invoices, line checks, preparatory and par level management, expediting lunch and or dinner service● Developed on hand understanding to control management costs, labor, product and product inventory, profit/loss statistics● Implemented menus and recipe standards ● Involved with important representation of local restaurant events Newport Beach Wine and Food Festival, Orange County Food and Wine Festival, Table for Ten, Dux and Tux