Catering by Creative Events

Phone (352) 536-2599   Fax (352) 243-9690

Highlights of Qualifications 

• Punctual, highly organized and committed professional.
• Specializing in over 20+ years in the many facets of the culinary field including, but not limited to the hotel banquet, hotel restaurant, room-service, location catering, and cafeteria; while providing proved stability, kitchen management, preparation, personnel management and offering excellent presentation and thorough customer service skills.
• Self-motivated Chef able to work in a fast-paced environment; overseeing and trained in all phases of food handling and sanitation procedures.
• Creative, innovative, team leader, detail-oriented, decision maker and problem solver.
• Fluent in Spanish.

 Professional experience as banquet cook / restaurant cook / sous chef / caterer

 10/1999 – 11/2006  Doubletree Hotel, Orlando, FL

Responsible for opening banquet and restaurant kitchen,  preparing breakfast, lunch, dinner buffets and running, restaurant line while leading co-workers in an orderly fashion.  Supervised line staff or 8 line cooks and prep cooks while inspecting quality of food preparation, storage, temperature, appearance, cleanliness, and solving any issues that arose on a daily basis.  Prepared meals serving anywhere from 1,000 to 3,000 guests within the catering events and served meals from 200 to 500 guests at the hotel on a daily basis.

 05/1985 – 05/1999  Babylon Beach House, Babylon, NY  Head Chef responsible for planning, ordering meals, developing menu, creating American and Italian dishes  for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for 130 elderly tenants; supervised 2 sous chefs and dish washer attendant; meals served but not limited to meat loaf, mash potatoes, rice, pork chop, roast beef, beef stews, all types of soups such as clam chowder, chicken noodle, tomato, and created deserts from scratch such as cakes, pies, cookies, etc.

 Education / Skills

05/1985 – 05/1999  Required to attend Cooking Academy, Long Island every three years to be certified as required by the State of New York.