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TOUR CHEF AVAILABLE "Have Knives Will Travel"

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Location:
Orlando, FL

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DENISE EATON

ORLANDO, FLORIDA

E-mail: deatonpl@yahoo.com

POSITION: Tour Chef

EXPERENCE:

Present: in New York: LORRAINE’S FOOD FACTORY/Coastal Catering

777 CULVER ROAD

ROCHESTER, N.Y. 14609 (585-442-6574)

POSITION: CONCERT EVENT CHEF

SUPERVISOR: Keith King, Executive Chef

Cater East Coast Concerts Events, New York State Fair Etc.

Catered for various production companies & artist including

Barbara Steisand, Black Eyed Peas, Allman Brothers, Linkin Park, Hinder, Papa Roach,Brad Paisley, Kenny Chesney, James Taylor,Jesse McCartney, Rascal Flatts,Alice Cooper, Cheap Trick, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, Brooks & Dunn, Motley Crew, Nickelback, 3-Doors Down, ColdPlay, Hillary Duff etc…

In Orlando: Puff-N-Stuff Event Catering

250 Rio Drive

Orlando, Fl.32810 (407-629-7733)

Position: Supervisor/Lead Road Chef

Supervisor: Terry Finley

Supervisor Catered Events Around Central Florida.

Train New Road Chefs the Number One Caterer In Central Florida.

01/02/2002-08/13/2004 Frogger’s Bar & Grill

27 ALAFAYA WOODS BLVD.

OVIEDO, FLA. 32765 (407-359-8388)

POSITION: MANAGER

Supervisor: Joyce Casey,

Introduced H.A.C.C.P.

Reduce purchasing by $96,000.00 the first year. Reduced food cost from 65%

Down to 31% , Cleaned House.

12/25/01-12/01/02- LOGAN’S BISTRO

802 VIRGINA DR.

ORLANDO, FLA .32803 (407-898-5688)

POSITION: Executive Chef/Manager

Supervisor: Sonya Condry-Owner

Responsible for setting up restaurant. Creating menu & recipes for successful new Euro-American bistro. Training Staff & All Food Preparation.

10/07/98- 09/17/01- WOLFGANG PUCK’S

1780 E. Lake Buena Vista Dr; Lake Buena Vista, Fl.32830

(407-828-0107)

POSITION: Sous Chef/Manager

Teresa Della Piazza

In charge of P.M. operations (front & Back) which includes; hiring, training, purchasing and scheduling of employees, food preparation/quality control, maintaining food & labour cost (P&L) Guest relations.

Awarded best cogs in Wolfgang Puck Food Corp. 1999,2000 &2001

12/1995-03/1997 – DEXTER’S OF THORNTON PARK

800 E. Washington

Orlando, Florida (407-648-2777)

POSITION: Sous Chef

Ran P.M. operations, menu development, which changed monthly. Training & staffing of restaurant. Set up gourmet market. Preparation of fresh soups, sauces, butchering of meats, poultry & handling of fresh seafood. Puchasing.

Wine tasting’s.

11/1993-11/1995- Rockledge Country Club

1591 S. Fiske Blvd;

Rockledge, Florida 32955 (321-636-6022)

POSITION: Sous Chef

Operation of P.M. dining, all aspects of food preparation & catering banquet functions. Ordering & inventory control.

04/1991-11/1993- Bervard Hotel

911 Riverside Drive

Rockledge, Florida. 32922

POSITION: Sous Chef

All aspects of food preparation for catered events that included functions such as; weddings, corporate parties, sit down luncheons & dinners (fine dinning).

10/89-04/1991- Puff & Stuff Catering

407 W. Fairbanks Ave;

Winter Park, Florida

POSITION: Executive Sous Chef

Food preparation for the # 1 Catering company in Central Florida. Menu planing & ordering for events were anything from small sit down dinner’s & dinner’s up 5,000 guest, grand opening’s for corporations, banks etc…

06/1984-10/1989 -Publix Supermarkets

Orlando, Fla.

POSITION: Culinary specialist/ Manager

Staffing, training, scheduling of employees. Ordering & maintaining food cost & merchandising of food products. P&L’s & inventory control. Also set up first gourmet deli’s with Culinary Specialist Inc; of N.Y.C.

Fully bonded.

06/1983-06/19-84 -94th Aero Squadron

Orlando, Florida.

POSITION: Prep Cook/Pantry/Line Cook

10/1978-1981 –-Worked in various restaurants in & around the Los Angles area, while playing music with bands.

POSITION’S: Sauté grill, prep, pantry etc…

EDUCATION: High School Grad, some college, grew up traveling around the world lived in England, Italy, Spain & around the U.S.

References available upon request.

Additional Info:

Food Sanitation (Cornell 1988)

H.A.C.C.P Certified Valencia Community College 12/13/1998

Certified Food Manager since 1990

Member Pure Food Campaign 1993

Computer Skills: Word, Excel, POS system’s

Manager/Employee Relations

Guest Services

Food Merchandising

Purchasing & Receiving

Product Marketing

After leaving Dexter’s I was executive Chef at Café Europa on Church St, downtown Orlando until my mother’s illness, then I took off 11 months to care for my Mother until her passing in August of 1998.
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