DENNIS KNOX
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Performance Summary:
Ambitious, results-driven Cook with 20+ years’ hands-on experience working at popular restaurants. Track record of providing leadership, guidance, and support to culinary staff. Well-versed in preparing menu items and recipes in keeping with production and quality standards. A dynamic individual who effectively allocates resources to staff, monitors food production needs and ensures requirements are met. Recognized for adhering to food handling and sanitation guidelines.
Summary of skills
•Strongly familiar with different types of meats and their cooking times
•Well versed in planning menus, establishing size of food portions, estimating food requirements and costs, and ordering supplies
•Skilled in preparing food for cooking and adding appropriate seasoning
•Highly experienced in performing food quality inspections to ensure that all food items conform to hygiene standards
•Well-honed aesthetic skills aimed at arranging and presenting food in a manner pleasing to the eye
•Solid knowhow of carving and preparing different types of meats for boiling, frying, and steaming
•Strong background of handling kitchen functions such as supplies and inventory management and cooking staff schedules and records
Work history
Helping Up Mission, Baltimore MD March 2016 to present
• Run day-to-day operations of kitchen
• Oversee and participate in food preparation and production
• Determine quantities to be cooked and servings to be served
• Coach, teach and train kitchen staff
• Ensure that the kitchen staff is attired properly and in accordance with the institution’s guidelines
• Ensured proper sanitation standards
Seaside Restaurant Feb 2010 to Dec 2014
Line Chef
• Assisted the executive chef with all areas of food production for 100 seat dining facility
• Prepared daily grilled food at poolside restaurant for 150+ guests
• Oversaw team of seven servers
• Planed, coordinated and implemented special events and holiday functions
• Performed cleanliness and hygiene duties in timely manner
Giibby’s Seafood Restaurant March 1995 to Nov 2009
Line Cook
Cooked and prepared all menu items made soups, and stocks from scratch.
Operated all kitchen equipment, and stations.
Followed all guidelines on proper food handling procedures, and qualifications.
Education
Walbrook Senior High School Baltimore, Maryland