MIDHUN M C
Belmont,Australia
Summary
Talented Chef with 17 years of experience preparing memorable dishes. Specializing in menus known for attracting and retaining customers. Provides culinary management skills to fast-paced kitchens. Dynamic Chef recognized for creating memorable dishes with fresh ingredients. Monitors and evaluates purchasing, staffing, production and inventory to control food and labor costs and waste. Maintains federal, state and local food sanitation and safety standards.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Chef
Bean & Base Cafe bar
Rippleside, Australia
10.2023 - Current
Chef
TLC Residential Aged Care & Arcare Aged Care (Contemporary Catering)
Geelong, Wallington, Point Lonsdale & Portarlington, Australia
05.2023 - Current
Sous Chef
Giraffe Meadow hall
05.2022 - 02.2023
- Assists Head Chef with menu planning, inventory, and management of supplies and placing purchasing orders
- Ensures that food is top quality and that kitchen is in good condition
- Monitor and record inventory, and if necessary, order new supplies
- Preparing, cooking and presenting food in accordance with restaurant standards
- Ensuring that all kitchen operations are in compliance with food hygiene (HACCP) and safety regulations
- Organizing kitchen staff work shifts
- Provide support to junior kitchen employees with various tasks including line cooking, food preparation, and dish plating.
Sous Chef
Las Iguanas Meadowhall
Sheffield
12.2021 - 05.2022
Acting Sous-Chef
Gate Gourmet catering Arabia LLC
12.2017 - 09.2021
- Maintain a comprehensive, current and get focused set of departmental standards and procedures and oversee their implementation
- Ensure training needs analysis of your departmental staff is carried out and training programmers are designed and implemented to meet needs
- Maintain training records for all direct reports and ensure they do the same for their staff
- Coach, counsel and discipline staff, providing constructive feedback to enhance performance
- Regularly communicate with staff to maintain good relations
- Maintain a high level of knowledge which affects the guest experience
- Taking appropriate action to resolve guest complaints
- Review and update existing standards to ensure competitiveness
- Demonstrate understanding the awareness of all company policies and procedures relating to health, hygiene and fire life safety
- Making sure that all the kitchen brigade works to the highest culinary standards
- Creating new menus and dishes on a guest request
- Checking the number of flight orders that have been made and then estimating how much food will be needed for those meals
- Making sure that all kitchen staff understands the duties and tasks they need to perform
- Planning, preparing and direction food operations in a kitchen or catering area
- Ensuring that the presentation of food is compliant with VIP standards
- Ensure all culinary offerings are of exceptional quality to maintain customer satisfaction
- Responsible for inventory functions, requisitioning, product costing
- Helping to train, develop and grow a kitchen staff.
Senior Chef de Partie
Gate Gourmet Catering Arabia LLC
11.2015 - 12.2017
- Responsible for supervising, coordinating and participating in the preparation, presentation and timing of the food in accordance with standard recipes of the company
- Cooking and presentation of different foods in all VIP flights like Presidential flights, Royal jets and all other private jets
- Coordinating with Catering operation regarding guest request, feed backs of food quality
- Consistently monitor standards & performance with Executive Sous Chef
- Logs specific incidents, issues irregularity report where necessary
- Prepares shift roasters and attendance
- Recommends probation period evaluation, analyzing training needs.
Chef De partie
Gate Gourmet Catering Arabia LLC
11.2013 - 11.2015
- Responsible for supervising, coordinating and participating in the preparation, presentation and timing of the food in accordance with standard recipes of the company
- Cooking and presentation of different foods in all VIP flights like Presidential flights, Royal jets and all other private jets
- Ensured that all food served in an arranged properly and met quality standard
- Consistently monitors standards and performance with Sous Chef
- Logs specific incidents, issues irregularity report where necessary
- Prepares shift roasters and attendance
- Recommends probation period evaluation, analyzing training needs
- Shares critical incidents, problems with Sous chef, team and discuss solutions.
Demi Chef De Partie
Holiday Inn Hotel Abu Dhabi
06.2012 - 07.2013
- In-charge of all day dining buffet at the restaurant
- Assigned in main kitchen, taking care of room service & banquets events
- Preparing buffet for breakfast, lunch and dinner as well for the coffee shop A-la-carte order
- Ensured that all kitchen work is completed within the timelines
- Maintained hygiene standards of kitchen and equipment
- Ensured food preparation procedures for quality, uniformity, and accurateness.
Commiss 1
Holiday Inn Hotel Abu Dhabi
07.2011 - 05.2012
- Maintaining high standards of hygiene
- Worked in all day dining restaurant checking all mise en place needed for all the services
- Preparing lunch, dinner service and room service A-la-carte
- In charge for preparing food for the banquet functions in the hotel
- Measuring dish ingredients and portion sizes accurately
- Dealing with deliveries and stock rotation.
Commiss 1
Media One Hotel Dubai
04.2010 - 06.2011
- Worked in all day dining Qwerty Restaurant in Media One
- Checking all mise en place needed for all the service
- Preparing for lunch, dinner service and room service A-la-carte
- In-Charge for preparing food for the banquet functions in the hotel.
Assistant Chef
Al Bustan Centre & Residence
12.2007 - 04.2010
- Worked in the fountain Restaurant, taking care of the breakfast, lunch & dinner buffets, also taking care the events happening at the restaurant, like barbeque nights, steak nights etc….
Education
Professional cookery -
Food craft Institute of Hotel Administration
Skills
- Equipment Maintenance
- Purchasing
- Staff Coordination
- Menu Development
- Dish Preparation
- Company Safety Standards
- Regulatory Compliance
- Kitchen Operations
- Verbal and Written Communication
- Kitchen Equipment Operations
- Recipe Development
- Banquets and Catering
- Food Safety and Sanitation
- Forecasting and Planning
- Menu Planning
- Waste Control
- Menu Supervision
- Food Service Operations
- Kitchen Equipment and Tools
- Grilling and Deep Frying Skills
- Food Preparation Techniques
- Knife Use
- Portion and Cost Control
- Pantry Restocking
Certification
- Food supervisor certificate
- Covid vaccination - 4 dose
- Flu vaccination
- Current police check
- HACCP Certificate
- Basic Chemical Training Certificate
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Chef
Bean & Base Cafe bar
10.2023 - Current
Chef
TLC Residential Aged Care & Arcare Aged Care (Contemporary Catering)
05.2023 - Current
Sous Chef
Giraffe Meadow hall
05.2022 - 02.2023
Sous Chef
Las Iguanas Meadowhall
12.2021 - 05.2022
Acting Sous-Chef
Gate Gourmet catering Arabia LLC
12.2017 - 09.2021
Senior Chef de Partie
Gate Gourmet Catering Arabia LLC
11.2015 - 12.2017
Chef De partie
Gate Gourmet Catering Arabia LLC
11.2013 - 11.2015
Demi Chef De Partie
Holiday Inn Hotel Abu Dhabi
06.2012 - 07.2013
Commiss 1
Holiday Inn Hotel Abu Dhabi
07.2011 - 05.2012
Commiss 1
Media One Hotel Dubai
04.2010 - 06.2011
Assistant Chef
Al Bustan Centre & Residence
12.2007 - 04.2010
Professional cookery -
Food craft Institute of Hotel Administration
- Food supervisor certificate
- Covid vaccination - 4 dose
- Flu vaccination
- Current police check
- HACCP Certificate
- Basic Chemical Training Certificate
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