Jonathan ‘Jay’ Ricketts
**** ********* ***. *******, ** 23508
***********@*******.*** 253-***-****
Line cook with 30+ years’ cooking in the restaurant industry. Experience in high-volume casual as well as fine dining establishments. 2+ years Management experience. Professional Experience in Restaurant/Management Industry* Food Lion
(Norfolk, VA) November 2020-Current
• Assistant Deli Manager. Responsibilities include opening, closing deli. Checking GNG, and BOGO products. Checking and printing deli invoices, helping crew to stock product to floor. Maintenance walkthrough at end of every shift. Aramark
(Norfolk, VA) September 2020 -November 2020
• Manager for The Den by Denny’s. Responsibilities include supervising breakfast, lunch, and dinner shifts. Filling out and filing waste management, htc, prep, on-hand, and temperature paperwork.
• Checking walk-in cooler and freezer for proper storage and labels and removing any past date products.
Pine Cone Café
(University Place, WA) March 2006 -February 2012
• Responsibilities included carving chicken into breasts, wings, legs, and thighs for lunches and dinner fried chicken.
• Making dinner specials, gravies, and sauces from scratch.
• Expediting in a high-volume establishment. Cleaning fryers, grills, and broiler nightly for close. Tanglewood Grill
(Lakewood, WA) July 2000 – February 2006
• Lead breakfast, lunch, and dinner cook throughout time at business in a high-volume bar and grill.
• Responsible for making soups, gravies, and specials daily from scratch. Pine Cone Café
(University Place, WA) May 1998 – February 2000
• Lead Breakfast cook.
• Responsible for opening, prepping, and cooking breakfast/lunch in a high-volume establishment.
*Other employment outside the restaurant industry available upon request.