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

• 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

• 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