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Barryville, NY

Complete responsibility for running two summer-camp kitchens, including menu planning, production, inventory controls and staffing. Developed menus for gluten free and vegan customer. Mentor college-bound student staff as they transitioned from campers to motivated team-player employees able to work effective with their international colleagues. Provide.

Ridgewood, New Jersey

Responsible for on-site production at Ben Franklin Middle-School and satellite production for six elementary schools, feeding up to 1,000 students daily. Assist manager with monthly inventory.Accomplishments: reduced left-overs by implementing forecasting and batch cooking procedures. worked with faculty to improve faculty dining room offerings..

Milford, PA.

Ran three different kitchens during eleven summer seasons, including upscale production and service at the Kislak Senior Adult Center (Lake Como, PA), camper-sensitive production at Round Camp (Lake Como, PA) and specialty Sephardic cooking at the Center Sleep Away (Milford, PA). Provided daily assistance to Food Service Manager (Director) with production.

Fairfield, New Jersey

Ran resident kitchen at home for senior citizen residents. Responsible for maintaining the budget, controlling inventory, purchasing food and non-food items and managing kitchen personnel.Accomplishments: Ran unit well within budgetary guidelines without sacrificing health or quality standards. Implemented better-controlled inventory procedures and staff.

New York, New York

Ran primary and largest campus kitchen serving quality breakfasts and dinners daily to 1,500 members of the college community, including students, faculty and staff. Created diverse seasonal, specialty and theme menus that allowed for high quality products at low cost. Supervised production by unionized kitchen staff in a friendly, but professional manner..

Teaneck, New Jersey

Ran student dinning facility, two cash operations and catering in a profitable manner while meeting the diverse needs of the university community. Supervised menus, food production, purchasing, budgets and personnel management.Accomplishments: Instituted personal-touch follow-up for all catered events on campus ensuring that customer needs and.

Hoboken, New Jersey

Manager of Dining Services and Center Operations (Board Plan Administrator/Client Liaison and Special Events Meeting Planner)Oversaw the food service vendor ensuring that high quality standards were maintained and that the student dining operation and the campus-wide catering operation were operated efficiently and economically. Planned, coordinated, and.

Drew University Madison NJ / Fairleigh Dickinson University Rutherford, NJ

Created and enhanced menus. Improved quality while controlling and reducing costs. Trained and supervised kitchen staff. Purchased all food and non-food items.Accomplishments: Maintained an overall plate cost of $1.32 Organized storerooms to coincide with inventory ordering guides that resulted inminimum inventory levels and expedited inventory and.

Providence, Rhode Island

Prepared all hot foods for banquets, oversaw cold production staff and ran kitchen in chef's absence. Assisted executive chef in kitchen management including payroll management. Purchased food items for restaurant, banquets and employee dining room. Controlled inventory and maintained food costs.

Bachelor'S Degree, Food Service Managment

Associate'S Degree, Culinary Arts/Chef Training