World Certified Master Chef (WCMC), CEC, and Certified Culinary Administrator, Israel Calderon has more than 30 years in the Industry. A dynamic and team-oriented leader with a proven ability to multitask, prioritize, inspire, and elevate staff individual & group performance. His experience includes managing restaurants, banquet operations, and room service at five-diamond and worldwide hotels & restaurants.
Recently accomplished two certifications with HarvardX of Harvard University: Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science (physics) and FERM: Food Fermentation: The Science of Cooking with Microbes.
Currently, Mr Calderon is a freelance Chef consulting for several restaurants. His background experience includes several Hotels and Resorts, such as El Conquistador Resort (Puerto Rico), The Standard Hotel (NYC), Chicago Hilton & Towers, and Grand Fiesta Americana Coral Beach Cancun (AAA 5 Diamond Property).
Expertise in solving these types of problems:
- Financial controls= Food cost; waste analysis, Budgeting
- Menu development, purchasing, pricing, and Market trending.
- Organizational effectiveness – Labor cost analysis;; Kitchen flow/layout; redundancies,
- Design/concept development.
- Team Performance = Productivity, morale, training