Robert Davidian, Senior Executive Chef

Robert Davidian

Senior Executive Chef

Touristic Enterprises company - Kuwait towers

Lieu
Koweït - Hawali
Éducation
Etudes secondaires ou équivalent, High-school
Expérience
35 years, 4 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :35 years, 4 Mois

Senior Executive Chef à Touristic Enterprises company - Kuwait towers
  • Koweït - Al Koweït
  • octobre 2014 à janvier 2019

Selecting and preparing menus for all restaurants (Set menus, a la carte, buffets and special events.)
Costing, Training the new kitchen staff.
Selecting a part of the equipment's and utensils for the new reopening.
Guiding purchasers to the right high quality brands.
Providing new culinary tips and techniques to the crew as much helping helping creating new recipes.
Ensuring the application of HACCP and safety regulation.
Ensuring goods quantities to be as per recipes.
Helping in the new recruitment and guiding the recruited to follow the system.
Supervising the quality of the produced items.
Checking daily all storage area's for expiry and right temperature.
Preparing weekly staff roaster.
Dealing with purchasers.
Checking daily received items.
Controlling the yearly expenses upscale relatively to the budget.
Achieving successful catering experiences.
Maximising kitchen productivity and staff performance.
Teaching, training and developing .
Experience with million -dollar, upscale landmark establishment such as Kuwait towers.
Successful catering experience.
Contributing in food and beverages management (Feasibility, lay out, equipment, inventory's, depreciation's, stockings, etc ).
Quality assurance for food & beverages divisions.

Operations Manager à Elite International for banquets
  • Koweït - Al Koweït
  • novembre 2012 à novembre 2013

Purchasing, Costing, Creating menus, Banqueting, and some of the budgeting.
Dealing with customers and preparing contracts, controlling store keeping and maintenance . Accomplishing some tasks of Executive Chef.
Managing food and beverages stocks.
Controlling used goods quantities and packaging for bulk production.
Supervising the multiple outlets for distribution on time and in a healthy way.Ensuring that the fleet is in good condition by following the maintenance process.
Improving profitability of the catering by cost control v/s sales prices.
Goods stores inventory's including service stores.
Limiting expenses and waste.
Training the staff on new menus.

Operations manager à Royal food Catering
  • Koweït - Al Koweït
  • août 2010 à juin 2012

Operations control, Costing, dealing with customers for events, applying HACCP regulations and rules, training the crew on new menus, supervising the bulk cooking consistency in kitchens, solving contracts problems in banquets and events .maintaining menus standards.

Unit Head Accommodation à Heavy Engineering Industries & Shipbuilding Co
  • Koweït - Al Koweït
  • mars 2007 à mai 2010

Select accommodation camps for more than 4000 employees and negotiate contracts.
Plan and manage all accommodation requirements(including maintenance, catering, security and other areas.
Manage, monitor and distribute work for camps personnel and contractors.
Plan and conduct audits for quality assurance and compliance.
Approve purchase and work orders related to camps requirements including(equipment, furniture, maintenance, catering and other)
Plans for budgets of camps requirements and ensure compliance with the budgets and planned time line.
Controlling employees allocations and daily reports.
Controlling catering allocations and implementing HACCP regulations.
Planning new strategies for catering and canteens to minimize the expenses.
Making feasibility studies for commercial central kitchen and studying the impact of the project (cost & profit ).

Operation Manager à Quality Food Co.(Danish Bakery)
  • Koweït
  • juillet 2005 à février 2007

Handling All the F&B related requirements in the company of 4 outlets .
Costing, Budgeting, Purchasing, Marketing, training the crew, applying HACCP rules and regulations, creating new menus for restaurants.

Executive Chef à Beit 7 Restaurant
  • Koweït - Al Koweït
  • juillet 2000 à juin 2005

Introducing new menus, gave relevant training to the staff, and manage some of the F&B tasks.

Executive chef and F&B by interim à New Park Hotel
  • Koweït
  • février 2000 à juin 2000

Introducing new menus, Banqueting, Costing, Giving relevant training to the staff.

Partner and Executive chef à Elite for catering
  • Liban - Beyrouth
  • octobre 1996 à février 2000

Banqueting, Cooking, Purchasing, budgeting, controlling all the operations and applying HACCP regulations. Creating new menus.

Restaurant Partner and Executive Chef à Societe D'Expansion Touristique et Hoteliere ( SETH )
  • Liban - Beyrouth
  • octobre 1989 à octobre 1996

Cooking creating new menus, costing, Purchasing and Budgeting.
Training the crew on consistency and banqueting, controlling inventory's .
As much the restaurant was not so big, ( not more than 100 couvert )
I was handling the tasks of F&B.

Partner & Executive chef à Pizzeria Luciano
  • Liban - Beyrouth
  • octobre 1987 à octobre 1989

Costing, Purchasing Creating new menus and cooking.

private Chef à Jack's Hideaway
  • Liban - Beyrouth
  • mars 1986 à octobre 1987

All the related tasks of a private chef ( purchasing, inventory, managing the crew, preparing menus for events cooking, applying food safety regulations and so on...

Cook à Homenmen
  • Liban - Beyrouth
  • janvier 1984 à février 1986

Conducting cooking training for the community club members and managed the cooking community functions and events .

Ship Chef à The National Navigation Co.
  • Liban
  • avril 1983 à avril 1984

Cooking for the crew.

kitchen Chef (Summer season ) à Hotel La Mairie
  • Liban
  • juin 1982 à octobre 1983

Cooking Lebanese Cuisine, Supervising the food preparation and presentation of dishes.

Éducation

Etudes secondaires ou équivalent, High-school
  • à Beirut technical high school
  • juin 1977

Specialties & Skills

Training
Operation
Costing
Catering
window office

Langues

Anglais
Moyen
Français
Expert
Arabe
Expert
Arménien
Débutant

Adhésions

Armenian non profit social affairs
  • member
  • April 1976

Formation et Diplômes

Strategy and Objectives sessions (Formation)
Institut de formation:
HEISCO -
Date de la formation:
January 2008
ISO certification and compliance (Formation)
Institut de formation:
HEISCO
Date de la formation:
May 2008
Business courses (budgeting & cost analysis ) (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Private
Date de la formation:
June 2007

Loisirs

  • Reading documentary's and novels,painting , cooking , theaters.