Keith Brunell

About Keith Brunell

Experienced Senior Director Food & Beverage with a prosperous history as Senior Director of Culinary Innovation and Operations with a proven history of leading and building process oriented experienced R&D menu innovation teams with a strategic vision for food, beverage, specialty coffee, and alcohol programs to ensure success and profitability. Established and refined structured processes to effectively manage and coordinate the integration of menu and product strategy to marketing teams, customers, and employees. Advises and directs strategic sourcing vision by developing tactics to effectively manage quality, costs and efficiently integrating product changes with national, regional, and business leaders to our guests. Relevant and rich history of subject matter expertise designing kitchens, testing and integrating equipment, opening and remodeling restaurants to improve labor efficiency while managing strict timelines and budgets. Well-built passion for learning and developing talent at all levels of the organization by influencing the design and coordination of core training modules inspired by new ways of learning from C-Suite leaders to employees.

Experience

1. Director Food & Beverage Chef

   Nordstrom

   Jun 2020 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

Education

• Kent State University

  American History (United States) Psychology

  1987 — 1988

• Washburne

  Associate’s Degree, Culinary Arts / Chef Training

  1988 — 1990