roy sullivan

Lead Cook for upscale retirement community in San Francisco. Prepared breakfast, lunch and dinner meal for residents using fresh local ingredients. Expidite during meal period to ensure quality meals are served to residents, Supervise cooks and wait staff.

Performs preliminary food preparation procedures. Prepares and/or cooks menu items listed on the production schedule. Bakes, fries, braises, boils, simmers, steams and saut 's as prescribed by recipes. Sets up serving lines, garnishes food items, and applies food protection and sanitation measures in field and garrison environments. Receives and stores subsistence items. Performs general housekeeping duties. Operates, maintains, and cleans field kitchen equipment. Erects, strikes, and stores all types of field kitchens. Performs preventive maintenance on garrison and field kitchen equipment. Provides technical guidance to lower grade personnel in garrison and field kitchen operations. Ensures that proper procedures, temperatures, and time periods are adhered to during food preparation. Directs safety, security, and fire prevention procedures. Performs limited supervisory and inspection functions including shift supervision.

Implement and maintain production system. Hold Weekly production meetings. Conduct daily sanitation audit of kitchen. Review Blast chiller log for proper cooling procedures are followed. Ensure daily production recipes and work sheets are complete for all cooks for each menu cycle. Accurately forecast menus for Retail and patient Foodservices. Monitor all daily food production to ensure quality and food safety compliance. Develop or change recipes as necessary. Test new recipes for quality and feasibility. Control production inventory and food cost. Assist staff in kitchen when necessary and appropriate. Head bi-weekly menu meeting for patient foodservices.