Corporate Chefs, LLC

17/07/2024

🍋‍🟩Mini Key Lime Pies
🍑 Peach Parfaits
We love this fresh, seasonal approach to a dessert bar!

10/07/2024

Meet Oscar Gutierrez, Chef Manager ✨ Oscar lights up the room when he enters, but in the most humble and helpful way. True hospitality runs through his blood. Over the years, Oscar has been leading and inspiring various teams at Corporate Chefs accounts, offering regional support as a Manager for those that need additional leadership (think covering vacations, etc.).

The impact felt by Oscar’s warm and genuine persona is so apparent now that he’s back at a single account, leading at a Cafe in Newtown, Massachusetts. Guests welcoming him back - thrilled to be able to see him and enjoy his delicious food every day. This type of special guest interaction is contagious, and we’re so grateful for the positive energy he brings to us and to our clients.

Hailing from Mexico, Oscar’s heritage is boldly represented in the flavorful foods he serves, but he knows the importance of a diverse menu, and loves making dishes to expand other guests’ culinary experiences at work as well. Oscar says, “yesterday we featured a Santa Fe Caesar Salad, tossed to order, but tomorrow we are featuring my Boss’ Pollo Loco recipe.” Oscar lovingly refers to his co-worker, Renee, as “his Boss,” noting that we are all equals — we’re all a team and all want the same outcome (which is delicious food and happy, satisfied guests).

Gracias, Oscar.
✨ Buen Provecho

10/07/2024

Beat the summer heat and stay hydrated 🍉 Watermelon Pizza is a satisfying treat to boost hydration and can help you feel refreshed. Our Registered Dietitians are hosting tastings for our guests during this week’s heat wave. They’re educating us about the benefits of getting 20% of your daily fluid needs by eating hydrating foods like watermelon, strawberries, lettuce, tomato, cabbage, celery, zucchini, oranges, and more.

Remember, stay cool, eat a cucumber! 🥒

02/07/2024

Miguel Quinteros is grilling up swordfish steaks with wasabi compound butter today!

19/06/2024

🍿This may sound CORNY, but we just wanted to POP by and say thanks ☺️

Special shout out to Foodservice Director Naomi Lovain for always making her guests smile. We love these special touches that make corporate events just a bit more fun and memorable!

18/06/2024

Our BeWell Teaching Kitchen is designed to make health-curious folks more confident in their cooking skills. Eating healthy can be intimidating, so our Chefs and Registered Dietitians help demonstrate easy recipes while the group follows along. It’s been a helpful addition to our programming, and our guests are loving the interactive break from their usual workday.

Ask us how we can bring the BeWell Kitchen to your workplace.

13/06/2024

Congratulations to this small but mighty team, successfully delivering another annual summer cookout for their client in Massachusetts.
 
Foodservice Director Mark Durkin has been with Corporate Chefs for 13 years, leading this account for the past three.
 
Our client remarked, “Mark and Laura are part of our family. We love Corporate Chefs. They have been a big part of our success.”
 
Pictured: Mark Durkin, Jeffrey Lundgren, Carolyn Loring, David Hebert, James King, Laura Kepnes

03/01/2024

As we welcome 2024, let’s celebrate the art of mindful eating. Our commitment this year is to offer you nutritious food that you want to savor!

Mindful eating is a practice, and it takes awareness. Enhance your dining experiences by focusing on the joy of savoring each bite, opting for nutritious choices, and eating in an environment that encourages being present during all of your meals. Embrace a healthier, more conscious approach to dining!

26/12/2023

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22/12/2023

Celebrations have been happening all month long! We’re thrilled to see our client partners happily celebrating their teams with gatherings and fun merriment through festive breakfasts, snack bars, lunches, formal dinners, and cocktail parties.

We have the pleasure of helping our clients plan and host these events, and best of all, our teams love seeing their collaborative planning come to life!

Thank you to our leaders Gino Brogna, Angela Chen, Linda DeNatale, and Kimberly Beal! We love when our leaders collaborate to support one another’s successes 🌟

21/12/2023

Happy Holidays from Val, Angela, Linda, Adrianna, and Sean!

Our teams are still helping our clients celebrate the Holiday season, spreading more and more joy as we approach the end of the year. And thanks to our Manager Buddy for organizing this event, among many, many others this season. We’re incredibly grateful for our teams who put so much thought into celebrating each and every one of these events with special food and beverage!

May your holidays be filled with warmth and cheer!

15/12/2023

14/12/2023

Corporate Holiday parties are in full swing! As our clients wrap up their end of year, they’re eager to celebrate with their teams and festive food is always a necessity. Our teams in Portland, Chattanooga, and Columbia have been crafting these delicious seasonal dessert options for their guests. 🧁

05/12/2023

Congratulations to another vibrant, important member of our team! We recently had the pleasure of awarding Danielle Buxton with the Salesperson of the Year award!

Danielle is our Dining & Events Business Development Director, helping clients see the potential and possibilities of a bringing in a phenomenal amenity.

Danielle has worked for Elior North America for 6 years, starting with Corporate Chefs right after graduating college. She’s been promoted several times on her journey, moving from a Floating Chef Manager to a Catering Director. Her deep understanding of the business is apparent, with her roots firmly tied to operational and client successes. She decided to take on a new challenge as Business Development Director and quickly succeeded bringing on new clients, contracts, and happy guests.

She already has endless positive memories with the company, as she had the pleasure of working alongside her father, Steven Buxton, recently retiring from Corporate Chefs earlier this year. Danielle says she is grateful for the “opportunity to start my career and send my dad into retirement. I fell in love with people and food because of him. He taught me how to treat people with empathy and kindness which has truly helped me be successful and build strong relationships.”

Danielle loves being surrounded by her friends and family. Her three nieces and nephew bring so much happiness into her life and she loves watching them grow. As their aunt, she will totally teach them a thing or two about empathetic hospitality 😉

Thank you, Danielle, and congratulations! We are grateful for you!

30/11/2023

Our talented Chefs are the heart of our incredible team. We recently had the pleasure of awarding Corporate Executive Chef David Weigold with our Chef of the Year award.

Chef David joined Corporate Chefs in Massachusetts in 2010 with 20 years of high-end, high-volume culinary experience. He was named Manager of the Quarter in 2016 and promoted to Corporate Executive Chef in May 2022.

David’s strengths include training and coaching. He now works with Corporate Chefs and Constellation Culinary Group on Professional Dining menu management/development, new concept implementation, field support, purchasing compliance, and leading through demonstrating culinary excellence.

David’s involvement with our parent company is inspiring — he’s truly committed to bettering workplace processes and efficiencies. He works on Elior’s Inflation Response Team, Waste Nothing Committee, Culinary Leadership Council, Prepped Cross-Segment Packaged Food Committee, and the O365 Ambassador’s Team. He’s committed to upholding stringent safety and sanitation standards, and most importantly, he leads by example.

He was named Chef of the Year in 2003 by a former employer, and we have the pleasure of giving him this well-deserved title again for Corporate Chefs.

David is passionate about technology, researches everything prior to buying, and lives on a lake where he pursues his love of fresh water fishing. He is a lover of animals, especially his cat, as well as his incredible wife, Betty.

Thank you, Chef David, for all of your significant contributions at Corporate Chefs. We are grateful to have you leading our teams!

🎂 🥳 PLEASE ALSO JOIN US IN WISHING DAVID A HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

29/11/2023

Congratulations to another stellar leader! Laura Grace took home the Unsung Hero of the Year award.

Laura is a fantastic Foodservice Director for a large team in Columbia, South Carolina. She took a leap of faith and decided to move to South Carolina from Pennsylvania for this new role, and moved only 2 days before she started with Corporate Chefs on December 19, 2019. After only two weeks with Corporate Chefs, she opened the cafe she currently leads in January 2020.

One of Laura’s favorite memories is working with the Leadership group that helped flip the location from the former provider into the Corporate Chefs cafe with new brand standards.  She recalls, “the team was so talented and prepared that it seemed flawless.” Laura had the pleasure of helping her new client from the beginning— establishing their new mark on the food and beverage services that Corporate Chefs would be able to offer for their community.
 
Laura is a true lover of food — at home she is a gardener, incorporating healthy food into her lifestyle because she has the benefit of growing it herself, organically. She has experimented with growing all kinds of produce and is now responsibly raising and processing poultry! “Next summer I will add a flower garden, mostly so I can pick fresh flowers, but I will save some for the bees 😊” She admits that the weather in South Carolina is absolutely perfect for growing year-round, which gives her an advantage to eating seasonally and sustainably. She’s grateful and admits, “Corporate Chefs brought me to this weather,” that she can fully take advantage of.

We absolutely love Laura’s passion for agriculture and how she incorporates her love of food into her leadership role for Corporate Chefs. Her client is passionate about wellness and sustainability, and Laura’s personal values align well to help lead her team toward shared successes.

Congratulations again to Laura Grace for being named our Unsung Hero of the Year. You’re an inspiration and we’re grateful for you!

24/11/2023

Congratulations to another inspiring leader on our Corporate Chefs team. We recently had the pleasure of awarding Executive Chef Robert Weinstein with the Superstar of the Year award.

Chef Robert leads a large team of passionate culinarians in McLean, Virginia. Starting at an aggressive account in 2018, Robert has also become an integral part of his client’s community, consistently creating healthy and innovative plant-forward menus. His involvement extends beyond their kitchens and onto the field — he joined his client’s company softball team and is lovingly known as “chef” on the ballfield.

Nominated for his forward-thinking & consistent ability to deliver innovation for our clients, Robert has a proven ability to navigate change, impart knowledge, and provide an environment that inspires others.

Earlier this year, Chef Robert helped spearhead the pilot of our Forward Food program, becoming an integral part of the success of Corporate Chefs delivering new plant-based recipes for our guests. “I try not to think about making a ‘vegetarian’ or ‘vegan’ dish,” Weinstein says. “I’m just going to develop and build the flavor profiles where the protein is tempeh or white beans.” Chef Robert has witnessed the plant-forward transformation on his client’s campus, and he’s proud to be driving positive change by innovating and offering sustainable and more wellness-focused foods.

Robert is a proud husband & father to his young daughter, Jules. When he’s not at work, Robert can be found cooking for his family and enjoying the outdoors. He is a graduate of Johnson & Wales University, who now currently resides in the D.C. area.

Thank you, Chef Robert, for your incredible teamwork, vision, and passion. We are lucky to have an inspiring leader like you and we are grateful for your culinary talents — we are thankful for you!

📸 2nd Photo courtesy of Nils Granholm.

22/11/2023

We recently had the pleasure of awarding another incredible leader with a Unit of the Year Award.

Suzanne Gaudrault is the General Manager and leader of an incredible team in Bar Harbor, Maine.
 
Suzanne started with Corporate Chefs in 2004 as a Floating Manager— assisting everyone in her region who needed help. Six months after starting, she became the leader of a small, two person account in Massachusetts. Now, Suzanne’s current account is thriving under her thoughtful leadership and attention to detail.

Some of her most fond memories with Corporate Chefs include curating special meals for her client such as Board of Director events. “I love being able to utilize my skills to create upscale food for a small group,” says Suzanne. “I remember one CEO who loved high-end cheeses. I would travel 30 miles to get his cheeses from a specialty store in Cambridge, MA. Everything was always made from scratch, including the crackers and the pasta.” It’s clear that her enthusiasm for culinary arts is equally matched by her dedication to creating welcoming and warm atmospheres.

Suzanne has two daughters, ages 10 and 13. When she’s not working, she’s devoted to them. She enjoys getting up early on the weekends and she is currently in the process of hiking all the trails in Acadia National Park! Suzanne and her older daughter are fans of indoor rock climbing and bouldering, something they do 2-3 times a week together.

It’s a pleasure having dedicated and inspiring individuals like Suzanne leading our teams, operations, and clients towards success! Thank you, Suzanne. We are grateful for you.

21/11/2023

The heart of Corporate Chefs is our incredible team. We recently had the pleasure of awarding Mike Ciccolini the Trailblazer of the Year award.

Mike started with Corporate Chefs in June 1996 at Boott Mills — an old cotton textile Mill — in Lowell, Massachusetts as Chef Manager (🆒 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boott_Mills)

Through growth, loyalty, and incredible leadership, Mike has lead teams for 27 years with Corporate Chefs.

Mike excels at what he does because he understands the importance of active learning when leading. One of Mike’s favorite memories is learning TTM– Teach, Train & Motivate — to help him with his staff of 50+ individuals. In the spirit of continual learning, Mike also found purchasing seminars to be extremely useful. He learned how to control costs to help his client, better manage his business, and be able to invest in other areas that were needed.

Sarah West, Director of Operations, says “Mike is a leader and trailblazer everyday! He was nominated because he leads by example and paves the way for others with programs.”

Mike is lover of fishing and a family man who spends much of his time with his daughters who are very active academically & in sports.

We are so thankful for you, Mike!

16/11/2023

Congrats to our newest leader, Chef Michael Boyd. Chef Mike was recently promoted and is now leading his own team at our newest location in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

Chef Mike brings us awesome prior experience, traveling and opening locations for a well-known quick service restaurant, and most recently as a Sous Chef for Corporate Chefs at another location in Minnesota. We are thrilled to have his expertise and excited to see what the future holds for him at Corporate Chefs!

👏 Congratulations on your promotion, Chef!

16/11/2023

Our team in Columbia, South Carolina is always so thoughtful with their incredible seasonal spreads. Pictured here you’ll find a variety of autumn-themed treats like Pumpkin Pie Parfaits, Caramel Apple Parfaits, Cranberry Orange Cheesecake, and Hot Cocoa Mousse.

Thank you to Foodservice Director, Laura Grace for always providing her clients and guests with a welcoming and unique experience!

14/11/2023

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It's always all smiles when you are part of the Corporate Chefs, LLC team! Just ask deli station prep cook Gloria Rojas and food service director Sue Krynicki, who on any given day, can be spotted, sharing a laugh while collaborating on various initiatives aimed at crafting a vibrant and engaging experience for the guests they serve!

09/11/2023

Welcome to the team, Chef Megan Senese! Megan joins Corporate Chefs with an extensive background in the culinary arts in the Chicago area. We are excited to keep growing in Illinois and are so proud of the women leading our teams here.

Megan recently had the opportunity to host a Catering Showcase for her client, demonstrating the versatility of our menu options. Catering Showcases are a way to help our clients visualize what is possible when they need to entertain!

Special thanks to Chefs David Weigold and Devon Gatteny for giving Megan support and inspiration!

08/11/2023

🍩 We DONUT know what we’d do without DONUTS

Our team got creative with a classic favorite.

What’s your favorite way to dress up a donut?
Pretzels? Bacon? Chocolate Drizzle?

01/11/2023

Happy World Vegan Day! We’ve noticed a delightful trend — a growing love for plant-based foods.

Our Chefs have been working behind the scenes to develop innovative, plant-based options that are crave-worthy and delicious.

🌱 The pros of increasing plant-based foods are endless:

🟢 Adopting a vegan diet can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Livestock farming contributes to 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

🟢 A plant-based diet requires less water and land. It takes about 2,500 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of beef, while 1 pound of wheat requires only 25 gallons.

🟢 A vegan diet can be rich in essential nutrients like fiber, vitamins, and antioxidants, and tends to be lower in calories and saturated fats.

🟢 Studies have shown that a vegan diet may reduce the risk of chronic conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, and certain cancers.

🟢 A shift towards plant-based options can foster economic opportunities in plant-based food industries and sustainable agriculture.

🟢 A vegan diet encourages the exploration of a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes, contributing to a diverse and satisfying diet.

It’s essential to plan a vegan diet carefully to ensure that it includes all the necessary nutrients your body needs. We recommend consulting a healthcare or nutrition professional if you’re considering a drastic lifestyle change. Regardless, increasing your intake of plants is always a good idea!

01/11/2023

Our teams love an excuse to give you a fun experience- so here’s even more Halloween creativity! Our team in Columbia, SC shared some amazing pumpkin carvings and themed lunch specials.

Special thanks to Foodservice Director Laura Grace and to Aaryn Li-Jenkins for making this extra spooktacular. 👻

31/10/2023

🎃 Step into a spooktacular experience at our café in Chattanooga, TN where their inspiration, “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” comes alive! 🦇

Happy Halloween!👻

27/10/2023

At Corporate Chefs, we’re not just about serving great meals, we’re passionate about creating unique experiences. From crafting custom menus to curating special events, our dedicated teams pour their hearts into every detail.

This team brought a client’s annual conference to life with unforgettable food in a beautiful pop-up setting. We received countless “thank yous” for the ambiance, service, and inclusive menus, “making our international audience feel well taken care of.”

Thank you to our incredible teams receiving stellar reviews including Sue Krynicki, Executive Chef Robert Weinstein, Keith Thomas, Corey Dumitrescu, Helder Pedrosa, and Rose Shertick.

20/10/2023

Happy International Chefs Day!

Today, we celebrate all of the culinary artists on our teams who bring flavors from around the world to our plates.

Tag your favorite chef and share a food memory that left your taste buds dancing! 🤤❤️

19/10/2023

🌱 Our grills are sizzling with flavor, bringing you a variety of mouthwatering, plant-forward options that are sure to satisfy your cravings.