Christopher Smith-Burnette
San Antonio,TX
Summary
Energetic Kitchen Manager enthusiastic about working with high-performance teams. Personable, responsible and hardworking professional. Dedicated to innovative dishes, effective budgeting and top-of-the-line customer service. Skilled Kitchen Manager knowledgeable about best practices, safe food handling and inventory management.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Executive Sous Chef
Compass Group
Altoona, IA
04.2022 - Current
- My day started at 5 AM
- I will do my orders start cooking breakfast, making sure every one got everything ready for breakfast and lunch
- Go back to the office and start the schedule
- See what the executive chef need help with do my inventory for the week do like a couple meetings and go back and help the staff with service.
Cook
Omni Hotels
Dallas, TX
05.2020 - Current
- My new lease was making sure the line was in order doing inventory, coming up with daily specials, helping my team prep for the next day for events and catering
- Improved menu offerings, incorporating seasonal ingredients and innovative cooking methods.
- Prepared meals efficiently under time constraints for timely service during peak hours.
- Prepared multiple orders simultaneously during peak periods with high accuracy rate, maximizing customer satisfaction, and repeat business.
- Set up and prepared cooking supplies and workstations during opening and closing to maximize productivity.
- Reduced food waste significantly by implementing proper portion control and storage techniques.
Personal Chef
Chef Holdings LLC
06.2017 - Current
- Cooked 12 meals per day and served at residences or delivered to requested locations.
- Received consistently positive feedback from clients for exceptional taste and presentation of prepared meals.
- Improved overall efficiency by coordinating seamless communication between staff members during larger events or catering services.
Kitchen Manager
Element management hotel
Iowa City, IA
08.2022 - 06.2023
- I will come in every morning at 4 AM to prepare breakfast for the customers then prepare brunch and wine before I leave the things we will prepare for breakfast was all up to me
- It will be omelette bar pancake bar but every day we had fresh eggs, fresh sausage, fresh pastries that was every day thing that we must have out
Executive Chef/Kitchen Manager
WesleyLife
, Iowa
04.2022 - 06.2023
- My daily duties, ordering new ingredients for the patients going over recipes with the dietary department, coming over new menus, going over meetings with the employees and the patients
Line Cook/Prep Cook
Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen
Fort Worth, TX
06.2019 - 01.2021
- Prepping my station helping out dishwashers going up and down the line, helping all the other stations making sure everyone else was OK so I was more of a floater
Line Cook
03.2018 - 08.2020
- Pf changs - downtown forth worth TX, I was making sushi in doing sauté side in Grill
- And i was in i was in the process of becoming a supervisor.
Kitchen Manager/General Manager
Romano's Macaroni Grill
Fort Worth, TX
02.2014 - 08.2017
- My duties was making sure inventory and payroll was done before the end of the week making sure prep was done daily
- Everything was clean
- The front of the house was good and everybody was on top of their job.
Line Cook/Dishwasher/Prep Cook
North Texas Job Corps
McKinney, TX
04.2013 - 06.2015
- This was my first job
- I was working at my school, so I was in charge of the dish pit, helping my teacher prepare food for the students washing dishes cleaning up the cafeteria, doing what I was told.
Education
Associate's degree - Baking and pastry
Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts
April 2023
Associate's degree - Culinary Arts
Tarrant County College
June 2021
Skills
- Kitchen Management
- Purchasing
- Supply Ordering
- Scheduling
- Food Safety
- Cost Control
- Staff Supervision
- Menu Development
- Safe Food Handling
- Recipes and Menu Planning
- Equipment Condition Evaluations
- Performance Monitoring
- Order Accuracy
- Staff Coaching
- Process Improvement
- Performance Improvement
- Expediting Orders
- Vendor Relationship Management
- Food Production Management
- Strategic Planning
- Equipment Maintenance
- ServSafe Certification
Certification
- Culinary Experience (6 years)
- Kitchen Management Experience (5 years)
- Banquet Experience (2 years)
- Catering (4 years)
- Cooking (10+ years)
- Restaurant Experience (6 years)
- Menu Planning (5 years)
- Cake Decorating (1 year)
- Management (7 years)
- Food Preparation (6 years)
- Supervising Experience (8 years)
- Food Production (9 years)
- Leadership (5 years)
- Food Safety (10+ years)
- Restaurant Management (8 years)
- Budgeting
- Kitchen Experience (10+ years)
- Time Management (10+ years)
- Food Service Management (10+ years)
- Meal Preparation (5 years)
- Purchasing (3 years)
- Cleaning Experience (10+ years)
- Employee Orientation (3 years)
- Retail Sales
- Hotel experience Certifications and Licenses Food Handler Certification TABC Certified ServSafe
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Timeline
Kitchen Manager
Element management hotel
08.2022 - 06.2023
Executive Sous Chef
Compass Group
04.2022 - Current
Executive Chef/Kitchen Manager
WesleyLife
04.2022 - 06.2023
Cook
Omni Hotels
05.2020 - Current
Line Cook/Prep Cook
Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen
06.2019 - 01.2021
Line Cook
03.2018 - 08.2020
Personal Chef
Chef Holdings LLC
06.2017 - Current
Kitchen Manager/General Manager
Romano's Macaroni Grill
02.2014 - 08.2017
Line Cook/Dishwasher/Prep Cook
North Texas Job Corps
04.2013 - 06.2015
Associate's degree - Baking and pastry
Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts
Associate's degree - Culinary Arts
Tarrant County College
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