Syd Berkowitz
david.hayes@centerplate.com - Senior Dev Engineer
This past year has been a successful and busy one. It has been a transitional year with the loss of Chef Molly and the reinstatement of Chef Kayley as our new .. Convention Center business was very large this year with little down time but we managed to see improvements within the pastry department. We continued sustain our pastry process of utilizing excel scripting sheets, production schedules, firing schedules and recipies and new breakfast tick sheets to be more efficient with ordering for our events. Bakeshop had a mostly new crew this year with little experience but we managed to work with our team and train these people in the bakeshop. We promoted a new supervisor and had seen some of ourl old leads leave the bakeshop this past year as well. Specific Goals I had set this year were accomplished at the limelight restaurant. We streamlined production for the new year with new menus, New order guide excel sheets with costs and quantities that fit into our inventory sheets in e tech. Working with the chef Eugene and Chef Bryan Zimmerman we had trained and gotten limelight to start making some of the limelight desserts such as crème brule and some of the simple menu items. Also we had customized menu items for the limelight for special events ie. Hamilton show and some of their pre fix menus. During this past year we had scheduled some of the bakeshop staff to work over at the limelight during some of their larger weeks. Also on the goals list for 2018 was the continued work for the dpac sweets and treats offerings. We were able to create and work with Dainiel and the Dpac team in creating unique themed packaged cookies for the movie nights that the city was doing in the performing arts venue events. In conjunction with this we had participated in supplying pastry menu items for the cast parties as well. We had a very busy year with supplying our sweets and treat overall. We did record numbers and streamlined our production and labor to accommodate this business.. On my goals list was to help modify our printed logo program for cupcakes, cookies….We were successful in getting clients (and to sales)information to utilize our partners in chocolates ala carte to handle the high volume requests for this past year.