Perry Hall
Purfleet
Summary
Accomplished culinary professional with extensive expertise in kitchen operations optimisation and menu planning proficiency. Demonstrates strong organisational skills and efficient scheduling, ensuring seamless shift coordination and staff motivation. Adept at supplier relationships management, stock control expertise, and cost control strategies, contributing to effective budgeting and purchasing. Passionate about the food industry with a commitment to hygiene standards enforcement and allergen awareness. Career goals include advancing in catering coordination while maintaining excellence in food safety certification and HACCP guidelines familiarity.
Experienced Kitchen Manager excelling in team leadership and operational efficiency. Spearheaded menu innovations and optimised kitchen workflows, leading to significant improvements in customer satisfaction and staff performance. Known for fostering collaborative and high-energy environment, driving both culinary excellence and business growth.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work history
Kitchen Manager
Whitbread PLC
London
08.2011 - 05.2026
- My daily roles consist off organising and bringing a kitchen team together making sure they are meeting targets and working in a safe friendly environment complying to food and safety standards. My role also consist of keeping within targets and budgets and training and providing high food standards. Creating rosters for a team of 12 to carry out weekly tasks/shifts and enabling the smooth running of a busy kitchen. ordering of food, consumables , liquor and any other essential materials needed.Supporting the general manager to meet budgets , forecasts and keeping budgets inline to keep the business in a profitable position. My main goals as a manager and the person I am was always investing my time into others to get the best out of them to encourage there progression throughout the kitchen different job roles.
Grill Chef
Whitbread Hotels & Restaurants
London
08.2010 - 07.2011
- Day to day tasks would be preparing food ready for service to enable a smooth running service. during service it would be cooking and plating dishes to specifications and leasing with other chefs to bring dishes together and to produce checks within company time frames, always cooking to the highest standards and maintaining food hygiene and food safety standards.
Education
Cheffing -
Barking and Dagenham college
Romford 09/2007 - 07/2010
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Skills
- Organisational skills
- Budgeting and purchasing
- Passion for food industry
- Supplier relationships management
- Trained in first aid
- Familiar with menu development
- Portion control understanding
- Kitchen operations optimisation
- Food safety certification
- Kitchen equipment use
- Able to prioritise tasks
- Efficient scheduling
- Clear decision-making
- Stock control expertise
- Calm under pressure
- Cost control strategies
- Food preparation techniques
- Allergen awareness
- Staff motivation
- Catering coordination
- Waste management
- HACCP guidelines familiarity
- Menu planning proficiency
- Management expertise
- Shift coordination
- Culinary proficiency
- Hygiene standards enforcement
Certification
- Nvq level 1,2,3 food
- Food Safety and Hygiene, Level 2
Affiliations
- football
- gardening
- family time
- cooking
References
References available upon request.
Additional information
I am a career driving guy who always puts his heart and soul into any challenge or job I do. I love getting the best out of people and training and encouraging people to better themselves including myself. I love spending time with my family in my free time.
Timeline
Kitchen Manager
Whitbread PLC
08.2011 - 05.2026
Grill Chef
Whitbread Hotels & Restaurants
08.2010 - 07.2011
Cheffing -
Barking and Dagenham college
09/2007 - 07/2010
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