Rod Knight

Executive Chef, Manager - West Kendall Baptist Hospital @Baptist Health

Miami, FL, US

Provide chef-driven, high-quality, nutritious, cost-effective meals. Supervise the daily operations of food production and service.Regularly represent at a variety of community, marketing and public relations events to promote and share culinary expertise.Responsible for testing, training, and implementation of equipment and computer systems upgrades and changes. Establish and maintain a safe work environment by providing ongoing safety training, and adequate equipment maintenance. Comply with all federal, state and local regulations.Participate in strategic planning to develop and implement new techniques, procedures, and instrumentation. Develop goals and operational reports that support the strategic plan.Evaluate department performance and address business opportunities as appropriate. Hire, counsel and develop staff. Orient, train, supervise, and conduct timely performance evaluations. Manage budget and costs. Perform analysis of food trends, raw cost, retail pricing, contract management with vendors, daily recipe creation and menu planning including the implementation of cost-saving opportunities. Participate in multiple committees/councils (i.e. Culinary Council, Cost Standardization and Analysis Committee, etc.). Oversee and direct all special catering events and wellness initiatives for the hospital. Maintain the community wellness blog, online recipes, internal/external magazines and local newspaper. Partner with Wellness Advantage to spearhead any new hospital wellness initiatives. Maintain the proposed standardized menu for all the EarlyLearning Centers to alleviate cost and increase a healthier ELC menu and establish future opportunities for new menu initiatives. Partner with the Corporate Government and Community Relations and Marketing departments.Develop recipes and menus, conduct cooking demonstrations, lecture series, interviews, tasting samples, press conferences and local news networks at events.

Barry University

Business Administration and Management, General