Joseph Moore

123 Main Street, Stateland, ST, 99999

Cell: 555-123-9876  – sample.email@livecareer.com

August 27, 2014

RE: Chef and Sommeliers, August 27, 2014

Dear Michael Jones,

As an accomplished professional with 7+ years’ experience driving food service and kitchen staff performance in a fast-paced military environment, I offer expertise that will benefit your company.

My background includes facilitating food service operations by cultivating strong team alliances, managing budgets, and ensuring regulatory compliance. During my tenure with the U.S. Army, I earned three promotions to oversee staff training, quality assurance, and base kitchen operations while creating menu items to meet the nutritional and dietary needs of up to 1,500 soldiers. Furthermore, I am highly successful at managing inventory control and operating budgets in collaboration with management.

Key achievements include:

• Preparing and serving Thanksgiving Dinner for 1,345 people, winning the Garrison Award on Schofield Barracks.
• Ensuring all meals were prepared and completed on time and within Army standards as shift leader, earning a coin from a Major General for Thanksgiving meal feeding more than 800 people.
• Improving standards for an under-performing field dining facility through sanitary improvements to provide three hot meals daily for 250 personnel with no incidents of foodborne illness outbreaks.

To complement this background, I expect to complete a culinary arts diploma from L’Academie de Cuisine in 2014.

In summary, I can make an immediate and positive impact on the operational performance of your organization. I would welcome a personal interview to discuss how my qualifications would benefit Chef and Sommeliers position.

Thank you very much for taking the time to review my resume and for your kind consideration.

Sincerely,

Joseph Moore