What should a chef resume include?
Hotels, restaurants and cloud kitchens in India hire chefs who show the cuisines and stations they know, the covers they handle, food safety training and cost awareness. A clear chef resume states kitchen size, brigade role, signature techniques and outcomes such as food cost, hygiene audits or menu changes, with FoSTaC or HACCP training listed plainly.
Skills recruiters look for:
- Mise en place and prep planning
- Knife skills and basic butchery
- Indian regional cooking
- Tandoor operation
- Continental sauces and techniques
From our sample resumes:
- Vishal’s line on chiller logs and a clean surprise inspection tells head chefs that the fresher already treats food safety as part of the job, not a formality.
- Anitha states food cost as a percentage band and explains the yield testing behind it, which is the language executive chefs and hotel managers use daily.