Food Manager

GURDEEP KUMAR CHOUDHARY

Contact No.:+91-981*******

E-mail: *******************@*****.***,

Seeking challenging assignments to Plan & Manage Business operations with a frontline organisation.

Professional profile:

Determined, result oriented professional with 18 years of experience in food Process Operations, Quality Training and Client Servicing.

Functional Skills include

- - Team Management/ Leadership

- Quality Management

- Product Launches & Promotion

Extensive knowledge of, procurement, inventory maintenance, menus & prices, understanding of hygiene & health, safety regulations. Excellent communication, inter-personal & troubleshooting skills with ability to work in multi-cultural environment.

Core Competency

Food and Beverages Operations

Ensuring profitability of operations and supervise all aspects of Kitchen management including menu-planning, monitoring food production to ensure compliance with quality & hygiene standards.

Developing and implementing procedures, control systems for maintaining hygiene and quality standards ensuring profitability of operations.

Handling all aspects of Kitchen Management including production, presentation & portion-control of food .

Managing Inventory for food items and other supplies based on their shelf life and budgeted requirements.

Quality Management

Ensuring a high-quality customer experience, elevating customer satisfaction, while adhering to the SLAs (Service Level Agreement) and work processes and thus managing cost-effective operations.

Setting out quality standards for various operational areas & ensuring adherence to quality standards.

Career contour :

Nov 2011 to till Now: Basil Tree (multi cuisine restaurant & bar three stores in Delhi NCR)

Working as Head Chef

April 2008 to Oct 2011: Frec co (Lite Bite foods) Worked as Production Head:

Over all responsible for day –to-day operation

Responsible for food ordering, Managing staff, Food Cost and maintaining Billing.

Responsible for quality control and standards.

Managing Inventory for food items and other supplies based on their shelf life.

Oct 07 to april2008: Sbarro, New Delhi

Worked as production kitchen Head (commissary kitchen)

Over all responsible for day –to-day operation

Responsible for food ordering, managing staff, Food Cost and maintaining Billing.

Responsible for quality control and standards.

Managing Inventory for food items and other supplies based on their shelf life and budgeted requirements for seven outlets.

Apr2001-Apr’07 The Upper Crust - Gourmet and Pizzas, Bermuda.

Formerly known as 4 Star Pizza, Village Grill and The Curry House .A Multi branded Company in 1990 started as Four Star Pizza and introduced, pizza delivery to Bermuda delivering island wide with five stores. Now renamed as Upper Crust with dine in facility serving Beer, Wine and variety choices of specialty food like Indian, Local Cuisine, Pastas and Pizzas.

Career Graph

Mar’06 – Apr’07 Restaurant Chef Manager

Sep’04 – Mar’06 Asst Chef Manager

Apr’01 – Sep’04 Chef de Partie (CDP)

Over all responsible for day-to-day operation starting from store marketing plan to achieve sales budget and profitability.

Demonstrated success using current best practices in recruitment; familiarity with competency based recruitment and recruiting practices.

Playing key role in supervising all phases of in-store production: Order Taking, Pizza Making, Oven Tending, Routing and Delivery.

Spearheading a wide range of operations encompassing kitchen, food ordering, managing staff, Food Cost and maintaining Billing

Sep: 99 – April 2001: Grand Hyatt (New Delhi)

Worked as commis Chef .

Apr’96 – Sep’99 The Oberoi, New Delhi as an Apprentice in F&B Production

Distinction of handling over all responsible for day-to-day operation of the entire F&B department and all other outlets

Palms - Multi Cuisine Coffee Shop.

La Rochelle - french Cuisine.

Kandhar – Indian Cuisine

Belvedere - Multi Cuisine

Academic Credentials

1996-99 Diploma in Apprenticeship Training (Kitchen) Food and Craft Institute, Delhi

1995-97 Bachelor of Arts Dayal Singh College, D.U., Delhi

Certificate Course in First Aid Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

(St. John Ambulance Association),

Delhi (India)

Personal Minutiae

Date of Birth 1st February 1975

Address H-61, Laxmi Nagar, Garhwali Mohalla, Sreet No -3

New Delhi 110092

Passport No U 1604621

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