Todd Lapham

Background

About Todd Lapham

Over 20 years’ industry experience in managing, maintaining and ensuring the success and profitability of multi-million-dollar industrial food service accounts and units. A skilled culinary professional, recognized for a comprehensive knowledge of international cuisine and an innovative approach to setting the stage for a customized dining experience. Seeking a directorship position with a progressive and dynamic organization, allowing for development and growth. • Experienced in various forms of culinary arts including fine dining for resorts, restaurants, country clubs, industrial corporate dining, catered events, and conferences; focusing on refining the art of cooking and hospitality trends; creating and implementing impressive menus; and preparing culinary dishes influenced by ethnic regions around the world. • Creates and leads multiple successful kitchen and dining operations; goal oriented, results driven focusing on business development, leadership, process mapping, improvement and implementation. • Sets standards, directs, monitors and regulates kitchen and dining room activity to maximize profitability. • Excellent financial, budgetary, accounting and computational skills; prepares reports including annual operating budgets and provides guidelines to establish income and expense benchmarks and continuously analyzes to ensure continuous financial improvement through identifying waste and improvement including food costs, labor expenses, employee turnover, customer satisfaction. • Highly motivational team lead, creating and inspiring greatness through challenging and exploratory team activities, coaching and mentoring; has led teams up to 70 in number. • Ability to communicate on various levels including management, peers, client, customer, and associate level; manages internal politics expertly. • Embraces continuous learning, improvement, strategic thinking and organized implementation of organizational mission critical goals and objectives.