Nui is a family friend dining restaurant, the perfect destination for a magnificent experience
The Nui Restaurant is surrounded by lush gardens, rooftop seating on the terrace, sunset dinner specials, award-winning wine list.
• Nui Restaurant specializes in Italian cuisine and provides our guests with 207 seats
• Managed back of the house employees , making sure our AOS scores remain high
• Designed and wrote the Seasonal menu, taking into consideration the location and type of cuisine
• Responsible for all administrative aspects of Nui team members, including scheduling and documentation practices
• Establishes and maintains open, collaborative relationships with employees and ensures employees do the same within the team.
• Solicits employee feedback, utilizes an "open door" policy and reviews employee satisfaction results to identify and address employee problems or concerns.
• Provides information to executive teams, managers and supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
• Ordering, purchasing, and quality control
• Maximizing kitchen productivity and staff performance
• Provides direction for all day-to-day operations.
• Understands employee positions well enough to perform duties in employees' absence or determine appropriate replacement to fill gaps.
• Utilizes interpersonal and communication skills to lead, influence, and encourage others; advocates sound financial/business decision making; demonstrates honesty/integrity; leads by example.
• Encourages and builds mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
• Establishes and maintains open, collaborative relationships with employees and ensures employees do the same within the team.
• Supervises and coordinates activities of cooks and workers engaged in food preparation.
• Demonstrate new cooking techniques and equipment to staff.Exhibits culinary talents by personally performing tasks while leading the staff and managing all food related functions. Works to continually improve guest and employee satisfaction while maximizing the financial performance in all areas of responsibility. Supervises all kitchen areas to ensure a consistent, high quality product is produced. Responsible for guiding and developing staff including direct reports. Must ensure sanitation and food standards are achieved. Areas of responsibility comprise overseeing all food preparation areas banquets, room service, restaurants,• Develops and implements guidelines and control procedures for purchasing and receiving areas.
• Manages department controllable expenses including food cost, supplies, uniforms and equipment.
• Participates in the budgeting process for areas of • Observes service behaviors of employees and provides feedback to individuals and or managers.
• Manages employee progressive discipline procedures for areas of responsibility.
• Ensures disciplinary procedures and documentation are completed according to Standard and Local Operating Procedures (SOPs and LSOPs) and supports the Peer Review Process.
Executive Sous Chef Santa Clara Marriott
• Serving International cuisines from around the world, accommodating weddings such as: Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Hispanic, Kosher, Thai, American New, Italian, French, Greek, Spanish, European and etc.
• We cater to many sold out banquet functions including celebrity guests, NFL teams as well as small corporate or group meetings taking into consideration the groups budget
Banquet operations, up to 1300 Guests
• Managed Food and beverage operations with 46 employees, making sure that our AOS scores always remain high
• Designed and implemented a new menu for the following outlets: room service, pool side, Characters and banquets
Using California’s local and freshest ingredients, shopping from local farmers and making sure our products were organic and sustainable
Catering to weekend family travelers as well as the “high end” mid-week business traveler.
• AAA Four -Diamond Award; "for providing exceptional guest accommodations, excellent service and elegant atmosphere,"
• Oversee staffing of venues and scheduling according to business levels to make sure that our scheduling forecast coincides with our monthly labor cost/budget
• Monitor the quality of food products and consistency of plate presentation to insurance highest quality to guests
Executive Chef JW Marriott Hotel- Palm Desert/ Tuscany Restaurant 2008-2010
• Tuscany is a fine dining Palm Desert restaurant, the perfect destination for a magnificent Tuscan-style dining experience
The villa is surrounded by lush gardens, rooftop seating on the terrace, sunset dinner specials, award-winning wine list.
• Tuscany Restaurant specializes in Italian cuisine (north Italian to be specific) and provides our guests with 237 seats
• A cigar bar with revenue that averages monthly 280,000.00 USD for both food and beverage/ 7 nights a week
• Participated in the Palm Desert food and wine festival, as well as: Palm Spring life magazine Fox TV shows and cooking demos.
• Banquet operations for up to 4,000 Guests
• Managed back of the house employees (15), making sure our AOS scores remain high
• Designed and wrote the Seasonal menu, taking into consideration the location and type of cuisine
• Responsible for all administrative aspects of Tuscany team members, including scheduling and documentation practices
• Establishes and maintains open, collaborative relationships with employees and ensures employees do the same within the team.
• Solicits employee feedback, utilizes an "open door" policy and reviews employee satisfaction results to identify and address employee problems or concerns.
• Provides information to executive teams, managers and supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
• Ordering, purchasing, and quality control
• Maximizing kitchen productivity and staff performance
• Zagat 2008 Quality food score 26
• AOS 100 % QA 100 %
Executive Chef Biltmore Hotel/ Restaurant Fontana 2006-2008
• Reviews comment cards, guest satisfaction results and other data to identify areas of improvement.
• Worked and held cooking classes and Interactive luncheons for new employees and for guests who wanted to learn cooking skills.
• Ensures employees receive on-going training to understand guest expectations.
• Improves service by communicating and assisting individuals to understand guest needs, providing guidance, feedback, and individual coaching when needed.
• The Biltmore Hotel is accredited as a AAA Four-Diamond Award winner, for providing exceptional guest accommodations
• They have held this standing, since 1998 and provide excellent service as well as an elegant atmosphere
• Managed back of the house with 36 employees, utilized marketing skills and guest relations
• Designed and wrote the new menu, focusing on using only the freshest ingredients available
• Worked with the Cellar Club each month for demonstrations on culinary skills.
• Also responsible for Room Service with 250 rooms, two restaurant bars located inside the Hotel, inside the restaurant.
• Participated in several events and TV Channels like Food Network, Telemundo, NBC Channel
• Banquet operations, up to 1500 Guests
• Cooking Tour 2006 and the Miami
• Food and Wine festivals.
Muranos Italian Chef Caesars Casino
2004-2006
• Caesar’s Casino was deemed one of the Best new Italian Restaurant’s according to Jackpot Magazine in 2003
• Fine Dining Restaurant with 145 seats, revenue over 250,000 monthly and Guest checks averaging 45.00 USD
• Serving our guests 5 nights a week with additional banquet operations, up to 3000 Guests
• Managed 16 kitchen associates along with 28 front of the house servers
• Wrote new menu concepts and implemented a serve safe concept, knowing and implementing the brand's safety standards
• Held staff meetings daily with all kitchen staff as well as server staff and produced schedules weekly
• Responsible for daily food orders, inventory of all merchandise, as well as participated in the budgeting process for areas of responsibility
• Manages department controllable expenses including food cost, supplies, uniforms and equipment
• Demonstrate new cooking techniques and equipment to staff
• Ensures compliance with food handling and sanitation standards
• Follows proper handling and right temperature of all food products