Laurel Dragonetti
Hasbrouck Heights,NJ
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Private Chef
Self-Employed
04.2022 - Current
- Chef Owner of catering company- Chef Laurel Dragonetti: Private Chef Services, LLC.
- Responsible for responding to client inquiries, menu development for meal preps, private parties and catering orders
- Responsible for planning, prepping, shopping, cooking, delivering all my client services- including but not limited to meal preps, dinner/ brunch parties, and catering.
- Maintain client relations and communications
- Maintain my own website and create content
Private Chef
Celebrity Contract
- Live-in private chef in summer home of well-known shoe designer
- Responsible for planning, prepping, shopping, cooking for family of 6 plus guests daily.
Private Chef
Celebrity Contract
04.2022
- Responsible for grocery shopping, cooking, plating, and cleaning up after actor
- Meal prep, breakfast/lunch/dinner, on-call meals after hours during shooting.
Private Chef
The Culinistas
04.2022 - Current
- Responsible for grocery shopping, cooking, plating, and cleaning up in various clients’ apartments.
Sous Chef
Loring Place
08.2020 - 03.2022
- Working knowledge of all (6) stations, responsible for recipe testing, menu development, and executing special events for the restaurant and chef owner
- Responsible for managing and coaching a team of line cooks, prep cooks, porters and FOH wait staff
- Responsible for ordering produce, paper goods, chemicals, and dry goods.
Lead Line Cook
Zahav
09.2019 - 07.2020
- Line Cook; working knowledge of all (6) stations in the kitchen
- Top sous chef candidate prior to having to close due to COVID-19.
Line Cook
Loring Place
12.2016 - 08.2019
- Trained to work the garde manger station, hot appetizer station, pasta, sauté, as well as the wood-fired grill
- Responsible for setting up and breaking down of the station as well as opening and closing procedures of stations.
Line Cook
17 Summer Restaurant
06.2015 - 09.2016
- Responsible for prepping entire line
- Responsible for sauté and garde manger stations
- Responsible for both opening and closing procedures
- Additional duties include training new employees and making family meal.
Production cook & line cook (internship)
ABC Kitchen
07.2014 - 11.2014
- Responsible for prep of the line
- Responsible for the garde manger station (setting up mise en place, reading tickets, plating dishes)
- Duties included closing the restaurant and cross-training new employees.
Prep Cook
Nordstrom Marketplace Café
01.2013 - 10.2013
- Responsible for preparing ingredients for chef’s recipes, slicing and portioning poultry and meats, setting up the line for service, grilling and roasting of ingredients, baking and decorating dessert items
- Prepared all meals and snack items for espresso bar
- Responsible for opening and closing the restaurant: set up, clean up, and safety procedures.
Education
Bachelor of Professional Studies - Culinary arts
The Culinary Institute of America
Hyde Park, NY05.2016
Diploma -
Wood – Ridge High School
Wood - Ridge, NJ06.2013
Skills
- Originality
- Knowledge of Cooking Equipment
- Passion for Culinary Arts
- Event Catering
- Inventory Management
- Professionalism
- Sanitation Practices
- Special Diet Accommodation
- Meal Preparation
- Adaptability
- Time Management
- Menu Planning
- Attention to Detail
- Cooking Techniques
- Recipe Development
- Culinary Expertise
- Kitchen Staff Management
- Safe Food Handling
Initiative
To obtain employment as a private chef.
Certification
NYC Department of Health Food Handler’s license, 2020
Timeline
Private Chef
Self-Employed
04.2022 - Current
Private Chef
Celebrity Contract
04.2022
Private Chef
The Culinistas
04.2022 - Current
Sous Chef
Loring Place
08.2020 - 03.2022
Lead Line Cook
Zahav
09.2019 - 07.2020
Line Cook
Loring Place
12.2016 - 08.2019
Line Cook
17 Summer Restaurant
06.2015 - 09.2016
Production cook & line cook (internship)
ABC Kitchen
07.2014 - 11.2014
Prep Cook
Nordstrom Marketplace Café
01.2013 - 10.2013
Private Chef
Celebrity Contract
Bachelor of Professional Studies - Culinary arts
The Culinary Institute of America
Diploma -
Wood – Ridge High School