Teresa Borik
Summary
Personal Chef with 22 years of experience cooking in commercial and residential kitchens. Delivers deep passion for food, large repertoire of ethnic and classic dishes and self-motivation to learn new recipes. Creates menus built around client preferences to cultivate satisfaction and drive referrals.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Personal Chef
Personal chef company
Beaverton, Oregon
09.2024
- Provides weekly meal plans for private clients in the comfort of their home.
- Grocery shopping, Daily recipes for meals, Clean up.
Private Chef
Catered Events
Seattle
01.2024 - Current
- Provides intimate dinner party catering, meal plans drop off and in home.
Private Chef
Food Fire Knives
Portland/ Seattle
06.2023 - Current
- Outsourced Chef to Provide Dinner Parties in people’s homes
- Menu Planning, Grocery Shopping, Cleanup
On Call Catering Sous Chef
Stillwater
McMinnville, Oregon
01.2022 - Current
- On-site Sous Chef
- Weddings, Private Dinners, Vineyard Openings
- Seasonal
Dessert Chef / Catering of Events, Concession
HOPS Stadium
Hillsboro
04.2024 - 09.2024
- Prepared Weekly Desserts to High End Box holders, Working team of three employees.
- Sous Chef to Executive Chef , Game night Concessions and Box Seat Catering
- Seasonal
Manager / Cheese Monger
Murray’s Cheese Department
01.2023 - 01.2024
- Opening, Maintaining Departments Displays, Purchasing, Scheduling
- Production team of five under me
Private Corporate Chef
Kindercare Nutrition Program
Brooklyn, New York
- 03.2021
- Creating menus, Maintained / Organized Kitchen
- Daily meals Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks
- Fed 40+ infants and toddlers
- Past New York Experience
Peter Callahan Catering LLC
NYC & Hamptons
01.2018 - 01.2019
- Sous Chef on-site, Dinner parties, Mitzvahs, Feeding 250 to 2000 people if not more.
Head Chef
Point O’Woods Community
Fire Island, NY
- 01.2014
- Executed Catered events, Maintained purchase orders , Maintained walkins (FIFO), knowledge of all stations, Dinner, Lunch and Dessert menus.
- Assisted Executive Chef as needed.
- Contracted Season
- Private Community, 5 cook team interns
Education
Associate of Science - Cuisine | Restaurant Management
French Culinary Institute
Manhattan, New York01.2001
Skills
- Catering of Events, Dinner Parties, Cooking lessons, Daily Meal Plans & Menu Planning
- Management of small teams Restaurant Experience (front and back of house)
- Specialty in Plant-based and Mediterranean Cuisine
- Nutrition in Plant-based , Gluten free, Diabetic
Certification
- Certificate Food Protection, New York, NY
- Certificate in Nutrition, Austin Peay State University
- Food Handlers Certificate, Oregon
- Food Handlers Certificate, Washington
Timeline
Personal Chef
Personal chef company
09.2024
Dessert Chef / Catering of Events, Concession
HOPS Stadium
04.2024 - 09.2024
Private Chef
Catered Events
01.2024 - Current
Private Chef
Food Fire Knives
06.2023 - Current
Manager / Cheese Monger
Murray’s Cheese Department
01.2023 - 01.2024
On Call Catering Sous Chef
Stillwater
01.2022 - Current
Peter Callahan Catering LLC
01.2018 - 01.2019
Private Corporate Chef
Kindercare Nutrition Program
- 03.2021
Head Chef
Point O’Woods Community
- 01.2014
Associate of Science - Cuisine | Restaurant Management
French Culinary Institute