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Chef Resume Template — Culinary CV for Hotels & Cruise

Free chef resume template and culinary CV layout for line cooks, sous chefs, pastry, and private chefs — station skills, HACCP, and service metrics that hotel and cruise ATS can parse.

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Best for

  • Chefs & cooks
  • Hotel / cruise kitchens
  • Private chef & catering

  • Stations up front

    Grill, pastry, garde manger, banquet — named stations recruiters scan for.

  • Food-safety credentials

    HACCP, ServSafe, food hygiene, allergen training near contact — not buried.

  • Service proof

    Covers, banquet size, ticket times, and waste or cost control — without corporate jargon.

What kitchen hiring managers scan first

Lead with cuisine focus, highest station or title, and the largest operation you supported (covers, outlets, or vessel). List food-safety certificates early — cruise, hotel, and multi-unit groups often filter on them before a human opens the file.

Prefer concrete kitchen language: mise en place, ticket times, allergen protocols, banquet plating, inventory counts. Avoid corporate filler ("synergy", "stakeholder alignment") that never appears on a kitchen JD.

How to fill this chef template

1) Contact + city/region. 2) Certifications line (HACCP / food hygiene / allergens). 3) Two-line summary with title, years, and peak covers. 4) Experience newest first — 3–5 bullets per recent role. 5) Culinary school or apprenticeships. 6) Skills: stations, cuisines, tools you can defend in a trial.

  • Write "Ran grill for 220-cover dinner service" — not "Responsible for food preparation."
  • Tailor hotel vs cruise vs private-chef exports from one DocuResume profile.
  • Keep one column for portal uploads; Canva multi-column layouts often scramble dates.

Related examples and guides

Role samples: /resume-examples/chef · /resume-examples/sous-chef · /resume-examples/line-cook · /resume-examples/pastry-chef · /resume-examples/private-chef

Writing guide: /research/chef-resume-guide · FOH layout: /resume-templates/hospitality · Builder: /resume-builder

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