Adrienne Zastrow
Coon Rapids
Summary
Forward-thinking professional with more than 20 years of experience working in fast-paced kitchens. Skilled at staying focused and productive in high-stress situations and maintaining calmness in busy times. Strong focus on teamwork and adaptability, ensuring seamless collaboration and efficient service. Skilled in diverse cuisines, food safety, and customer satisfaction. Reliable and results-driven, ready to meet evolving needs and exceed expectations.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Personal Chef
01.2023 - Current
- Create menus
- Communicate with clients about their needs (before, during, and after), special dietary restrictions, time/place, etc.
- Shopping, prepping, packing all necessary equipment and traveling to clients home, cooking, clean up, etc
- Ensuring food safety and quality all through out
Baker/Chef/Manager
Truffles & Tortes, Anoka
03.2022 - 01.2023
- Create, prep and make from scratch pastries, and do the am bake-offs
- Work the line for breakfast and lunch while prepping new and current ingredients, closing tasks
- Organizing, manage stock, ordering, shopping, answering calls/questions, interacting with guests
- Hiring, scheduling, coordinating with staff tasks needing to be taken care of
- Ensuring food safety and quality all around
Executive Pastry Chef
Honour Cafe, NE Mpls
07.2021 - 04.2022
- Create, prep and make, new breakfast items and flavor combinations
- Prep/make From Scratch all soups, sandwiches, salads Scones, breads, bars, cookies, croissants, danishes, turnovers, pop tarts, muffins, quiches, frittatas, biscuits
- Set up case, Organize, Clean
- Manage stock/Ordering
- Hiring
- Barista
Personal Chef
Chef for Seniors, Mpls
11.2021 - 02.2022
- Get 4 meal options from the client.
- Converse with client what is needed
- Shop for items needed for meals
- Cook the 4 meals (3 servings each) for client in their own with companies cooking supplies
- Clean kitchen areas
Cake Decorator then Kitchen Manager/Cook
The Buttered Tin, St. Paul
03.2017 - 06.2019
- Started in bakery baking and decorating cakes and cupcakes. Then Helped in the kitchen then became the Kitchen Manager as well as doing all the prep cook.
- In charge of running kitchen, inventory/ordering, scheduling/hiring, training, invoicing, menu changes, specials, prepping
- Basically anything that needed to be done I got it done
Education
Associates of Applied Science -
Le Cordon Bleu
Mendota Heights, MN01.2008
Skills
- Food Safety
- Knife skills
- Microsoft Word/Excel
- Menu planning
- Baking/cooking
- Leadership
- Inventory Control
- POS
- Customer Service
- Forecasting
- Cost Management/Control
- Labor Cost Analysis
- Ordering
- Catering
- Management
- Scheduling
- Client relationship building
Certification
- ServSafe Manager 2025-2028
- CERTIFIED PERSONAL TRAINER Oct 2022-Oct 2024
- First Aid, CPR, & AED Certification Oct 2022- Oct 2024
- Personal Care Assistant 2019
- Drivers License
Timeline
Personal Chef
01.2023 - Current
Baker/Chef/Manager
Truffles & Tortes, Anoka
03.2022 - 01.2023
Personal Chef
Chef for Seniors, Mpls
11.2021 - 02.2022
Executive Pastry Chef
Honour Cafe, NE Mpls
07.2021 - 04.2022
Cake Decorator then Kitchen Manager/Cook
The Buttered Tin, St. Paul
03.2017 - 06.2019
Associates of Applied Science -
Le Cordon Bleu