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Jēkabs Birbels

Summary

Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills eager to secure any entry-level position. Ready to help team achieve company goals. I learn fast and adapt even faster. My diligence and diversity of board-based knowledge, experience in, not just being cook, but to everything that has happened around me gave me advantages to be surrounded by elder and wiser people. Everything is possible if you do, go and try.

Overview

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Certification

Work History

Chef

Mission Canteen
  • Cooked memorable dishes that brought new customers into establishment.
  • Evaluated food products to verify freshness and quality.
  • Oversaw scheduling, inventory management, and supply ordering to maintain fully stocked kitchen.
  • Cultivated a positive work culture among kitchen staff through open communication lines and mutual respect within the team.
  • Implemented rigorous quality control measures to ensure consistent taste and presentation of dishes.
  • Monitored food production to verify quality and consistency.

Prep Cook, Cook, Shift Manager

Oak'a Burgers
  • Monitored food quality and presentation to maintain high standards.
  • Coordinated checklists to keep kitchen clean, stocked and sanitary.
  • Established performance goals for employees and provided feedback on methods for reaching those milestones.
  • Communicated clearly with employees, suppliers and stakeholders to keep everyone on same page and working toward established business goals.
  • Maximized performance by monitoring daily activities and mentoring team members.
  • Enhanced customer satisfaction by resolving disputes promptly, maintaining open lines of communication, and ensuring high-quality service delivery.
  • Maintained professional, organized, and safe environment for employees and patrons.

Cook

"Heim"' Lillehanner
  • Monitored food quality and presentation to maintain high standards.
  • Prepared meals efficiently under time constraints for timely service during peak hours.
  • Managed time by organizing and prioritizing kitchen duties to prepare and serve food quickly.
  • Managed opening and closing shift kitchen tasks.
  • Prepared food items in compliance with recipes and portioning control guidelines.
  • Kept kitchen clean and organized by performing daily maintenance tasks.

Construction Worker

BŪVNIECĪBAS PROJEKTI MKEN SIA
  • Loaded, unloaded, and moved material to and from storage and production areas.
  • Helped with door and window installations.
  • Loaded and unloaded materials onto trucks and trailers.
  • Followed instructions and safety protocols to prevent accidents and injuries.
  • Cleaned and maintained tools, equipment and worksites.
  • Installed drywall, siding and other structural components.

Food Waiter

VERTIGO AB SIA
  • Assisted in menu development, contributing suggestions for new dishes and seasonal offerings.
  • Remained calm and poised when dealing with difficult customers or during busy shifts.
  • Efficiently managed reservation system, ensuring minimal wait times for walk-in guests while honoring reservations made in advance.
  • Helped customers with dietary restrictions, allergies and intolerances obtain safe, delicious food by working closely with kitchen staff on alternatives.
  • Maintained customer satisfaction by clarifying questions about orders and specialty items.

Cook

KALNCIEMA EZĪTIS SIA
  • Created identical dishes numerous times daily with consistent care, attention to detail, and quality.
  • Communicated closely with servers to fully understand special orders for customers.
  • Measured, weighed, and mixed appropriate ingredients according to recipe directions.
  • Monitored food quality and presentation to maintain high standards.

Instructor

Riga Wake Park
  • Teaching and helping customers to maintain balance, learn how to ride and jump on wakeboard.
  • Made customers and their overall feeling as good as possible.
  • Guarded private mostly-night events.
  • Operated cable movement with cable-connected device.
  • Maintain kicker's and slide's floating abilities and kept them in the right direction while swiming in ''Daugava'' river.
  • Safety instruction.

Construction Worker

Cēsis
  • Measured dimensions of finished pieces for conformance to specifications.
  • Moved and cleared debris from work sites to dispose of in designated areas.
  • Helped with erecting scaffolding and ladders.
  • Roof demounting and repairing.
  • Helped with door and window installations.
  • Gathered waste and trash from job sites for placement in refuse containers to keep job sites clean and organized.
  • Loaded and unloaded materials onto trucks and trailers.
  • Followed instructions and safety protocols to prevent accidents and injuries.

Advertiser

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  • Showing, cooking, explaining and trying to get by-passer's to try and buy some of my represented food products.
  • Client consultation and communications
  • Worked with team to achieve sales goals for products.
  • Maintained knowledge of current promotions and product features.
  • Maintained clean, organized and professional work environment.

Right-hand

Zaļa Zāle
  • Contributed to cost savings by identifying opportunities for process improvement and waste reduction.
  • Loaded and unloaded materials onto and off of trucks for fast shipment.
  • Cooking, building burgers
  • Food preparation and quality control.
  • Bringing food, customer satisfaction and wellbeing control. Communicating using 3 languages.

Education

Dining And Customer's Servicee Specialist - Culinary And Customer Service

Rīgas Tūrisma Un Radošās Industrijas Tehnikums
Nīcgales Iela 22, Rīga, Latvija

Skills

  • Customer Engagement
  • Creative Thinking
  • Problem-Solving
  • Supply Restocking
  • Team contribution
  • Energetic and Enthusiastic
  • Accurate money handling
  • Cost reduction and containment
  • Strategy Development
  • Employee Training
  • Logistics Management
  • Menu presentation
  • Item promotion
  • Suggestive Selling
  • High Energy and Stamina
  • Flexible and Adaptable

Certification

Client customer service basics

https://e-kursi.lv?cert_hash=338287005f7c186e


Successful time management

https://e-kursi.lv?cert_hash=b4169f973d9297cf


Currently learning:

  • Excellent leadership skills VIA https://e-kursi.lv
  • English for Career Development VIA Coursera learning platform
  • Going trough these courses i am basically refreshing already earned knowledge.
  • Further courses that i will be taking is going to be intermediate or advanced in terms of desired specialization or what future job will require me to learn so i could do better, faster and more productive.





Additional Information

For most of the time i worked as a cook or at least connected to dinning and/or customer service and the reason for that was my school specialization program and related familly member owned restaurant/cafe. Other than that i was not the one who sat home. I was the one who participated in various activities other than school or main job.

To be more precise about what i mean- since childhood i have been connected to music, singing and everything in between.(Parents and their chosen primary school with a extra music learning programs) I also participated in- kid and teenager productivity centre located in Cēsis, Latvia where practiced drums and rhythm. I tried everything that you can try at the skatepark but for most-bmx and inline rollerblading. I have very good skills in stability and balance. Meanwhile i was evolved in almost every sport games and trained as boxer. Did a lot of snowboarding in winter and around 14 years i was introduced to wakeboarding behind boat and mainly-cable wakeboard where i got my first men's open cable park medal(2nd place) at age 17. Wakeboarding was ''next-level'' because of my mother's brother who opened cable wakepark where i was his right hand doing tasks like cable tower operation and repairing, client service as welcoming, consulting and instructing. Next to the park was a cafe where i was employed as waiter and cook. Since i was besides the owner and manager of cafe and park i was able to learn valuable knowledge about bussines and learn about the things that keep it alive and functioning.

I've always been friends with everyone because i usually didn't speak too much and respected opinions. I'm very good at listening. I have good manner's, don't ask silly questions(mosty because i earned related experience), respect and at least try to understand others and that led me to being surrounded to older-more experienced people from whio i gained even more knowledge and that is why i've mentioned diversity of board-based knowledge.

I am also a father and that gave me huge boost referring to responsibility and knowledge of child needs as well as what it take parents to be a good parent.


I have huge willingness to work somewhere where i can work more with my brain because:

  • I'm tired of physical work which lead me to be less productive at home, can't be as healty as i want to be, be the father as i want to be and be more fluent with finance, bussines and expressing myself.
  • My goal is to open my own bussines-cafe/restaurant or service/product company. I've had enough of physical learning since i am doing that for the most of my past years of working.
  • To be more respected.
  • To be able to gain and improve my body strength and stamina.
  • To be more active in the morning than i am in the evening.


Recently i disabled my activities on my phone for brain detox and dopamine level balance regaining and started to think about what i eat and how much i eat to be as productive, energized and organized as possible.

Languages

Latvian
Native language
English
Advanced
C1
Russian
Intermediate
B1

Timeline

Chef

Mission Canteen

Prep Cook, Cook, Shift Manager

Oak'a Burgers

Cook

"Heim"' Lillehanner

Construction Worker

BŪVNIECĪBAS PROJEKTI MKEN SIA

Food Waiter

VERTIGO AB SIA

Cook

KALNCIEMA EZĪTIS SIA

Instructor

Riga Wake Park

Construction Worker

Cēsis

Advertiser

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Right-hand

Zaļa Zāle

Dining And Customer's Servicee Specialist - Culinary And Customer Service

Rīgas Tūrisma Un Radošās Industrijas Tehnikums
Jēkabs Birbels