Wallace Shaw
West Orange, NJ *****
*********@*****.***
Willing to relocate to: Lexington, SC
Work Experience
Director of Dining Services
Healthcare Services Group - Englewood, NJ
March 2022 to Present
I order food and nutritional items for a 60 bed unit, over watch the dietary staff . I am incharge of counseling, developing and training new employees and enforcing the company and federal guidelines for the kitchen staff . I also work side by side with the staff, as well as keep the paper work bills and all other managerial duties up to date
Kitchen Manager/General Manager
Curry Up Now - Hoboken, NJ
April 2021 to Present
I am incharge of ordering, inventory and the consistency of the franchise brand . Cross training and initial training of all staff . Making sure all of our orders are correct for in store and delivery consumers, personally interacting with all of our guests at every level . Assisting with marketing, food and labor costs, as well as tracking the trends of what products are selling and necessary changes that need to be made in our store. I then communicate with corporate and see what other products we can add or replace to make our menu more profitable.
Executive Chef/Manager
POMPTONIAN FOOD SERVICE - South Orange, NJ
September 2016 to February 2018
I was the traveling Chef in South Orange for the South Orange maplewood school district. In charge of making sure the school chefs adhered to the budget, menus, labor costs as well as following state guidelines for school lunch program
Chef Supervisor
Compass Group - Montclair, NJ
September 2006 to June 2016
I was AM Exec Sous Chef at Montclair State University. Left there in 2010 to be Head Chef for Montclair Kimberly Academy's I ran those schools for 5 yrs lost the contract in bidding . Moved to Kean University as Asst Chef of Campus dining .
Education
Associate in Arts (AA) in Culinary Arts
New york school of restaurants - Manhattan, NY
Skills
• Kitchen Management Experience (10+ years)
• Culinary Experience (10+ years)
• Food Preparation (10+ years)
• Cooking (10+ years)
• Kitchen Experience (10+ years)
• Banquet Experience
• Supervising Experience (10+ years)
• Food Safety (10+ years)
• Catering (10+ years)
• Restaurant Management (10+ years)
• Meal Preparation (10+ years)
• Leadership (10+ years)
• Restaurant experience (8 years)
• Labor Cost Analysis (10+ years)
• Profit & Loss (10+ years)
• Meat Cutting
• Retail Sales
• Pricing (10+ years)
• Food production (10+ years)
• Inventory control (10+ years)
• Microsoft Office
• Food service management (2 years)
• Purchasing (10+ years)
• POS
Military Service
Branch: United States Army
Service Country: United States
Rank: E6
June 1987 to September 2003
I ended my career as an E6 US Army Drill Instructor, I was incharge of retraining soldiers for combat readiness, for overseas missions .
Commendations:
Drill Sgt of the year 1997
Certifications and Licenses
ServSafe Manager
ServSafe Management Certificate
Food Handler Certification
Additional Information
Food Service Manager's certificate