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Jarrett Stevenson

Saint Joseph,IL

Summary

I want to be great. Not for my sake, but for the sake of everyone that I have ever worked with who have believed in me. Those who trust me, and want me to succeed. I want to give people great food, a wonderful experience, and a time to remember. My desire every time I make food, is that the person getting it, won't enjoy it, but will be happy when eating it. That is what I want to provide to any kitchen I can work in.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Line Cook

Roch's Place/Roch's Restaurant & Bar
Saint Joseph, IL
01.2026 - Current

- I prep the expected items you would typically need for a quick service bar food place daily.

- I try to lead the kitchen to the best of my ability when it is needed. The restaurant needs that sort of leadership when we are swamped with tickets, and need to get out of the weeds.

- I provide my best insight on kitchen organization, and cleanliness that I can. As in my mind, a clean kitchen, is the first step to being a great kitchen.

Line Cook

Sun Singer Restaurant, Wine & Spirits.
Champaign, IL
07.2024 - 08.2025

- I helped create, and serve dishes to the best of my ability in a timely manner, to the best quality I could provide to the diners.

- I applied creativity, artistic style, and flavor into specials we would serve under the supervision of my head chef, and with critiques of said chef.

- Lead the kitchen from expo, and line side under supervision of my head chef. Alongside such, running expo alone when the chef was not in house.

- Did everything I could to bring leadership, and organization to the kitchen on a nightly basis.

Shift Manager

Jimmy Johns Gourmet Subs
Champaign, IL
01.2023 - 07.2024

- I regularly trained, and aided new hires onboarding to ease the tasks on my general managers plate.

- I moved, and prepared food quickly, and cleanly to provide the customers a nice experience, as they always loved to see us move so quickly, while also being safe.

- I helped cater large orders on a daily basis, and made sure everything was in order so the customers were never missing anything.

- Provided food, and service to hundreds of people, on a daily basis with no complaints. On catering days we would serve close to a thousand people regularly.

Head Grill Cook, Line Cook, Prep Cook

Mercedes Restaurants LLC (Alexander's Steakhouse)
Champaign, IL
04.2018 - 03.2020

- Started in the front of house as a bus boy for one week, and I was moved to the kitchen.

- I cut our meat, prepped all of our desserts, and did any other necessary prep 5/6 days a week. Alongside working the grill in the evenings.

- For roughly 7 months I was our one, and only grill cook on staff. I am used to extremely high pressure situations, and extremely demanding hours being requested of me because of this job.

- I left due to covid and having my hours heavily limited because of it

Education

High School Diploma -

St Joseph-Ogden High School
Saint Joseph, IL
05-2020

Skills

    - Passion, and Obsession I put my all into what I do, and I always want to be the absolute best I can be for my peers, and those who are directing me

    - Understanding that I don't know everything If I need to ask a question, I am going to The idea of trying to figure it out on my own destroyed me early in my career

    - A desire to learn, and be better I am going to out work, and out want the next step more than my peers But I won't step over them, I want to see everyone around me succeed, and be the absolute best version of themselves they can be as well

    - Practical skills I work on the basics more than anything else, I believe having an incredible foundation in the fundamentals for anything you do, can make you great, even before you've really found out what you can really do

    - Speed I believe that being fast, while safe, and smart are some of the best traits I personally have to give to my work

    - Cleanliness I pride myself on keeping my station, and my place of work as clean as it can be I have not always been this way, but I've come to understand how important it is

    - Finally, leadership I listen to the people who surround me in my place of work, I believe all input is important Leaving things unsaid, can lead to resentment I believe people can come to me as a leader, to hear them out, and what they believe should be done about X, Y, and Z

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
Spanish
Limited Working

Interests

  • I enjoy helping others and giving back to the community
  • Cooking
  • Food Tourism
  • Team Sports
  • Reading

Timeline

Line Cook

Roch's Place/Roch's Restaurant & Bar
01.2026 - Current

Line Cook

Sun Singer Restaurant, Wine & Spirits.
07.2024 - 08.2025

Shift Manager

Jimmy Johns Gourmet Subs
01.2023 - 07.2024

Head Grill Cook, Line Cook, Prep Cook

Mercedes Restaurants LLC (Alexander's Steakhouse)
04.2018 - 03.2020

High School Diploma -

St Joseph-Ogden High School