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Canmore, Ab, Ca

Banff, Alberta, Canada

• Prepare and cook complete meals, ensuring that all orders - appetizers, sandwiches, pastas, salads, pizzas, and desserts - are delivered promptly and meet high-quality standards, while strictly adhering to safety procedures.• Supervise opening and closing procedures for kitchen operations, ensuring smooth transitions and operational readiness.• Prepare food items in advance when opening the restaurant, ensuring they are ready for the final cooking stages, and train new staff on these… Show more • Prepare and cook complete meals, ensuring that all orders - appetizers, sandwiches, pastas, salads, pizzas, and desserts - are delivered promptly and meet high-quality standards, while strictly adhering to safety procedures.• Supervise opening and closing procedures for kitchen operations, ensuring smooth transitions and operational readiness.• Prepare food items in advance when opening the restaurant, ensuring they are ready for the final cooking stages, and train new staff on these procedures.• Maintain a clean and organized workspace, ensuring compliance with sanitation standards.• Oversee end-of-day operations, ensuring all equipment is turned off or set according to safety guidelines. • Prepare overnight cooking processes and verify proper temperatures.• Regularly assists with receiving supplier deliveries, verifying that items, quantities, and temperatures are correct, and ensuring FIFO stock rotation.• Check stock levels of semi-finished products at the end of the shift and determine production needs for the following day.• Provide on-the-job training and coaching for new employees, focusing on hygiene, cleaning, kitchen techniques, safety protocols, and dish preparation.• When in charge, oversee kitchen operations, coordinating with front-of-house and management to ensure accurate and timely order fulfillment, including special requests and dietary restrictions.• Build positive team relationships, support team goals, and report any unsafe conditions or incidents to the general manager.• Developed a "Featured Pizza" based on guest tastes and cost analysis, which was successfully tested, and approved by the corporate chef, managers, and customers.• Recognized as “Mountain Mover” for performance and dedication. Show less

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil

• Supervise staff on their job responsibilities, such as food preparation and portioning.• Coordinate the work on proper sanitation, and safety procedures and ensure high-quality control and food service.• Hire and train new culinary staff.• Create and manage work schedules to ensure efficient operations and maintain productivity.• Keep detailed records of inventory, repairs, sales, and waste.• Management and control of raw materials, packaging, and finished product… Show more • Supervise staff on their job responsibilities, such as food preparation and portioning.• Coordinate the work on proper sanitation, and safety procedures and ensure high-quality control and food service.• Hire and train new culinary staff.• Create and manage work schedules to ensure efficient operations and maintain productivity.• Keep detailed records of inventory, repairs, sales, and waste.• Management and control of raw materials, packaging, and finished product inventory.• Establish work methods and supervise pre-preparation, preparation, packaging, distribution, and transportation of food.• Development of recipe cards, menus, and food labelling.• Responsible for ensuring the proper functioning of the industrial kitchen and the delivery restaurant and for the conservation and proper handling of all equipment and operating utensils.• Customer service (B2B and B2C), addressing concerns, complaints, and special requests.• Coordinate all administrative steps related to industrial kitchen and restaurant delivery management, such as estimating and ordering ingredients and supplies, planning the purchase of raw materials, and planning and controlling production.• Manage suppliers of food, packaging, equipment, and utensils, as well as hiring partners.• Responsible for marketing and communication strategies, as well as negotiation and definition of third-party partners.• Implementation of continuous improvements using the lean methodology, aiming to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and optimize service quality.• Great performance, achieving a score of 4.9/5.0 based on customer evaluations.• Participated in the biggest food service fair in LATAM “Fispal” as an exhibitor. Show less

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil

• Recipe selection, development of class content, support materials, and recipe cards.• Instruction and supervision of the support team for food and space prep, as well as during training sessions.• Conducting classes on Italian cuisine for adults and children.• Consistently receiving excellent post-class evaluations.