Chef/Manager

DENISE EATON

*** ****** ***;

ORLANDO, FLORIDA 32825

Mobile: 407-***-****

Video Phone: 407-***-****

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

POSITION: Chef/Manager

EXPERENCE:

Present: in New York: LORRAINE’S /COASTAL CATERING

777 CULVER ROAD

ROCHESTER, N.Y. 14609 585-***-****)

POSITION: CONCERT EVENT CHEF

SUPERVISOR: Keith King, Executive Chef

Cater East Coast Concerts Events, New York State Fair Etc.

Catered for various production companies & artist including

Barbara Steisand, Black Eyed Peas, Allman Brothers, Linkin Park, Hinder, Papa Roach, Brad Paisley, Kenny Chesney, James Taylor, Jesse McCartney, Rascal Flatts, Alice Cooper, Cheap Trick, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, Brooks & Dunn, Motley Crew, Nickelback, 3-Doors Down, Coldplay, Keith Urban, Hillary Duff etc…

In Orlando: Puff-N-Stuff Event Catering

250 Rio Drive

Orlando, Fl.32810 407-***-****)

Position: Supervisor/Lead Road Chef

Supervisor: Terry Finley

Supervisor Catered Events Around Central Florida.

Train New Road Chefs the Number One Caterer In Central Florida.

01/02/2002-08/13/2004 Frogger’s Bar & Grill

27 ALAFAYA WOODS BLVD.

OVIEDO, FLA. 32765 407-***-****)

POSITION: MANAGER

Supervisor: Joyce Casey,

Introduced H.A.C.C.P.

Reduce purchasing by $96,000.00 the first year. Reduced food cost from 65%

Down to 31% , Cleaned House.

12/25/01-12/01/02- LOGAN’S BISTRO

802 VIRGINA DR.

ORLANDO, FLA .32803 407-***-****)

POSITION: Executive Chef/Manager

Supervisor: Sonya Condry-Owner

Responsible for setting up restaurant. Creating menu & recipes for successful new Euro-American bistro. Training Staff & All Food Preparation.

10/07/98- 09/17/01- WOLFGANG PUCK’S

1780 E. Lake Buena Vista Dr; Lake Buena Vista, Fl.32830

407-***-****)

POSITION: Sous Chef/Manager

Teresa Della Piazza

In charge of P.M. operations (front & Back) which includes; hiring, training, purchasing and scheduling of employees, food preparation/quality control, maintaining food & labour cost (P&L) Guest relations.

Awarded best cogs in Wolfgang Puck Food Corp. 1999,2000 &2001

12/1995-03/1997 – DEXTER’S OF THORNTON PARK

800 E. Washington

Orlando, Florida 407-***-****)

POSITION: Sous Chef

Ran P.M. operations, menu development, which changed monthly. Training & staffing of restaurant. Set up gourmet market. Preparation of fresh soups, sauces, butchering of meats, poultry & handling of fresh seafood. Puchasing.

Wine tasting’s.

11/1993-11/1995- Rockledge Country Club

1591 S. Fiske Blvd;

Rockledge, Florida 32955 321-***-****)

POSITION: Sous Chef

Operation of P.M. dining, all aspects of food preparation & catering banquet functions. Ordering & inventory control.

04/1991-11/1993- Bervard Hotel

911 Riverside Drive

Rockledge, Florida. 32922

POSITION: Sous Chef

All aspects of food preparation for catered events that included functions such as; weddings, corporate parties, sit down luncheons & dinners (fine dinning).

10/89-04/1991- Puff & Stuff Catering

407 W. Fairbanks Ave;

Winter Park, Florida

POSITION: Executive Sous Chef

Food preparation for the # 1 Catering company in Central Florida. Menu planing & ordering for events were anything from small sit down dinner’s & dinner’s up 5,000 guest, grand opening’s for corporations, banks etc…

06/1984-10/1989 -Publix Supermarkets

Orlando, Fla.

POSITION: Culinary specialist/ Manager

Staffing, training, scheduling of employees. Ordering & maintaining food cost & merchandising of food products. P&L’s & inventory control. Also set up first gourmet deli’s with Culinary Specialist Inc; of N.Y.C.

Fully bonded.

06/1983-06/19-84 -94th Aero Squadron

Orlando, Florida.

POSITION: Prep Cook/Pantry/Line Cook

10/1978-1981 –-Worked in various restaurants in & around the Los Angles area, while playing music with bands.

POSITION’S: Sauté grill, prep, pantry etc…

EDUCATION: High School Grad, some college, grew up traveling around the world lived in England, Italy, Spain & around the U.S.

References available upon request.

Additional Info:

 Food Sanitation (Cornell 1988)

 H.A.C.C.P Certified Valencia Community College 12/13/1998

 Certified Food Manager since 1990

 Member Pure Food Campaign 1993

 Computer Skills: Word, Excel, POS system’s

 Manager/Employee Relations

 Guest Services

 Food Merchandising

 Purchasing & Receiving

 Product Marketing

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