Nishan Aberathna

Passionate and skilled culinary professional with extensive experience in food preparation, menu development, and kitchen management. Excels in leveraging creativity, leadership, and attention to detail to deliver exceptional dining experiences. Seeking a dynamic kitchen environment to continue growing and refining culinary expertise while contributing to a team dedicated to excellence.

• Preparing, cooking and presenting dishes according to their station.
• Assisting the head chef to create new dishes for the menu.
• Following, and ensuring the team follows, food hygiene and occupational health and safety measures.
• Taking care with portions and waste to ensure profits remain positive.
• Managing staff, including rostering, timesheeting and giving direction.

• Rostering staff and ordering.
• Training and team building knowledge.
• Food preparation knowledge.
• Nutritive value knowledge.
• Strong customer service skills.
• Kitchen organisational and time management skills.
• Ability to motivate multidisciplinary teams and achieve significant results.
• Ability to work on own initiative and under pressure to meet challenging deadlines.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills at all levels.
• Adapt well to challenges, resilient and tenacious.