Snapshot

  • Location: Elk Grove, CA
  • Gender: Male
  • Status: Involved
  • Age: 21

About Me

  • First job: Krispy Kreme
  • Where I work: Maloof Sports and Entertainment
  • Best things about my gig: Great work atmosphere and people are awesome
  • Worst things about my gig: Not enough work hours
  • Career ambitions: Hope to own my own restaraunt.
  • Joined BiteClub for: Networking and better job opportunities
  • Home Town: Sacramento, CA
  • Education: High School/ Culinary School
  • My mentors: Executive Chef Gary Gainey
  • Heroes: My Grandfather
  • Favorite restaurants: BJ's
  • For my last meal I'll have: Lobster Tail with a Filet Mignon with Mashed Potatos
  • Favorite travel destinations: Carribean
  • This is always in my fridge: Cheese
  • Favorite munchies: Nacho Cheese Doritos
  • Interests and hobbies: Cooking, Gaming, loving life
  • You'll never find me at: You'll never find me at your moms house.
  • Recommended reading: Cooking for dummies
  • Tools of the trade: My mind!
  • Last vacation: Mexico

Industry Insights

  • Recent in the weeds story: My boos tol,d me he was going to marinade the meat for my station and I came in the next day and low and behold my meat was nowhere to be found. So I was behind all day not to mention my beef tasted just okay not like it should have been.
  • What makes a good chef: Being able to think outside the box a little bit while at the same time keeping that old school rustic feel in your cooking I think.
  • What I eat at home: Chicken, Fish, lots of Vegtables.
  • Food philosophy: You have to try everything once!
  • Wine recommendation: Not old enough to drink it........White Zinfandel!
  • My biggest responsibilities to the public: Making sure the food I give them was cooked and as well excecuted as the best that I possibly could have.
  • Years in the trenches: Only 3 but working my way up the ranks.
  • Most memorable career experience: Having a man come up to me and give me the greatest compliment I have ever herd.
  • Knife of choice: 12" Chefs Blade
  • Your cocktail of choice: Jack And Coke.
  • Worst injury: Broken Ankle
  • Favorite beer: Good old Corona With a Lime Wedge in it
  • What or who inspires me to cook and why: My Father inspires me to cook
  • Most memorable meal: My dinner at mossimo's in the bay area
  • Favorite cookbook: Cooking 101
  • Foreign city that has the most influence on my menus: Grece
  • Favorite food city: Italy
  • In the kitchen, I can't live without my: Herbs and Spices