Tony Budde

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT TONY BUDDE

After owning and running a successful Bar/Grill and restaurant in Fife we sold up and moved to Dumfries & Galloway. For the past six years I have been working in partnership with the local high schools Home Economics Departments. The purpose of this partnership is to develop our young people’s skills and confidences in relation to food and the hospitality industry and to provide a real life dimension to their course work. So far with the help and guidance from the school teaching staff, Head master and the 5th & 6th years, we have held events such as a showcase dinner for over 100 invited guests and at the beginning of this year we opened a pop up restaurant catering for 80 guests. The work I have been doing with the Schools has been rewarded by the Master Chefs of great Briton when they accepted me into The Master Chefs of Great Briton association. While working for Catering companies, I also worked in restaurants and Hotels at the weekends and evenings to gain more experience I have been lucky to have had the Chance of work experience with some great chefs over the years, Willie Pike MBE, Anton Edelmann Savoy London, Madhur Jaffrey, Paul Heathcote, Ken Hom, Cyrus Todiwala, Gary Rhodes Paul Rankin I also worked in Padstow Cornwall with Rick Stein on a ten day work experience. I have recently been putting all of my experience gained over the years by working with local catering outlets advising on menus, setting up systems and help with training which can be both rewarding and challenging