Line Cook Prep
Resume:
Sammy Balsters
Tyler, TX *****
*************@*****.***
Work Experience
Cook
Catfish King-Tyler, TX
April 2025 to Present
Currently working the window and set ups
Prep Cook
Mercados
December 2024 to February 2025
Prepare guacamole,pico, cut all vegetables for fajitas and sauteed,, spicy butter, salad mix and whatever
else is needed on the prep list for that day
Line Cook
Cotton Patch Cafe-Tyler, TX
July 2024 to December 2024
Proficient at working the Fry and Batter station. Cooking various types of Seafood and Meat products on
the Flat top and Char grill.
Line Cook
Don Benito's-Tyler, TX
February 2024 to June 2024
100% Proficient in the Hot side which basically consists of dishing up the plates with the correct portions
and food items that went with that certain menu dish. Fried various food items in deep fryers. Cooked on
the flat top grill making quesadillas,cooking tortilla crusted chicken,hamburgers,and sauteed vegetables.
Cooked fajita beef and chicken meat on the Char grill. Expedited thel cold side which included calling
tickets out to the grill, and fry stations sending the correct plates out with the right ticket it was ordered
on.Also making and sending out the cold plates and set up plates.
Line Cook
BJ'S Restaurant & Brewhouse-Tyler, TX
July 2023 to February 2024
Operated the App station which was all the appetizers, fried foods, nachos, and dips.And various prep
work if working the morning shift.
Line Cook
Republic Icehouse-Tyler, TX
July 2023 to December 2023
Worked the fry and batter station.
Helped on the Char and Flat top grill.
Made pizzas, and sometimes washed dishes.
Line Cook
Don Benito's-Tyler, TX
May 2022 to June 2023
Proficiently worked the cold and Hot side operations. Which consisted of calling tickets out. Making the
cold plates which are the appetizer dishes or the setups that went with the meal ordered. Plating the
correct food items and portions of the dish ordered.
Operated the fry station. Cooked on the flat top and char grill various food items.
Line Cook
Jimmy's Egg Restaurant-Tyler, TX
October 2021 to May 2022
Grill cook on meat and potatoe grill preparing hamburgers, hashbrowns, home fries, sausage patties and
links,grilled chicken and various other meats. Made a variety of different types of pancakes, and all the
hot sandwiches on the pancake grill. Worked the fryer dropping various fried foods. Operated the waffle
makers,and prepped the pancake and waffle batter.
Production Worker
Regal Machine MFG-Tyler, TX
July 2015 to July 2020
Hardware Operator Installed pem nuts and bolts permanently into various parts so other parts could be
attached to those parts responsible for moving pallets with parts on it from my area to the next area
they had to be sent to,Forklift certified plus many various
Production work
Laborer Various Jobs
Express Employment Professionals-Tyler, TX
January 2010 to December 2013
Various job duties in production, janitorial, general maintenance, painter, machine operator.and
assembly work.
Education
High school diploma
Fountain Lake High School - Hot Springs, AR
1977 to 1991
Skills
• Kitchen Experience
• Assembly
• Cooking (8 years)
• Forklift
• Restaurant experience
• Meal preparation
• Grilling
• Lawn Care
• Custodial Experience
• Mowing
• Food handling
• Sanitation
• Food industry
• Cooking
• Basic knife skills
• Landscape Maintenance
• Communication skills
• Machine Operator
• Cleaning Experience
• Leadership
• Food Safety
• Busser
• Food Service
• Facilities Maintenance
• Packaging
• Food Preparation (8 years)
• Warehouse Experience
• Load & Unload
• Food service
Certifications and Licenses
Driver's License
ServSafe
Forklift Certification
Food Handler Certification
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