Skip to content
ATSPrep
Build my resume

Chef resume template

See the finished document, where its evidence is, and the plain text a parser pulls out. Then put your own story in it.

Compare your resume to this chef templatePDF or Word. The file stays on your device.Check my resume

Review score
90
Evidence
78%
Words
265

Scored by the same rules the Studio uses. How scoring works

Why it works

  • One page in all six layouts265 words, so switching designs never pushes it to a second page.
  • 3 of 9 bullets name a resultThe rest show the scale of the work, which a recruiter reads as proof too. Counted by the same Review the Studio runs.
  • Headings an ATS already knowsSummary, Experience, Education, Certifications, Skills, in that order.
  • Credentials have their own sectionFoSTaC Food Safety Supervisor (Advanced Catering), HACCP Level 3, each with issuer and year.
  • Reads back as plain textOne column with no tables or icons. The ATS text tab shows what a parser gets.
What a recruiter sees
Arjun Menon
Chef de Partie
arjun.menon@example.com | +91 98450 55501 | Bengaluru, India | linkedin.com/in/arjunmenon
SUMMARY

Chef with seven years in hotel and restaurant kitchens, running the grill and continental stations. HACCP and FoSTaC trained, with menu development and food cost control at chef de partie level.

EXPERIENCE
Chef de Partie, The Residency Grand
Bengaluru, India · 2022 – Present
  • Run the grill and continental station for an all-day restaurant, cooking for about 220 covers a day with a team of three commis chefs.
  • Cut the station's food cost from 34% to 30% in a year through portion control, FIFO stock rotation and daily prep sheets.
  • Developed six dishes for the new seasonal menu, two of which became the restaurant's top sellers.
  • Keep temperature logs and allergen labels to HACCP standard; the kitchen passed every FSSAI inspection in the last three years.
Demi Chef de Partie, Saffron Table
Bengaluru, India · 2020 – 2022
  • Prepared mise en place and cooked à la carte mains for about 150 covers a night.
  • Cooked for banquets of up to 400 guests alongside the main kitchen.
  • Ordered dry stores and vegetables each week against par levels, reducing weekly food waste by about 18%.
Commis Chef, Coastline Café
Kochi, India · 2018 – 2020
  • Prepared vegetables, sauces and bakery items for breakfast and lunch service.
  • Followed cleaning schedules and kitchen sanitation rules, logging fridge temperatures twice a shift.
EDUCATION
Diploma in Food Production, Malabar Institute of Hotel Management
Kochi, India · 2016 – 2018
CERTIFICATIONS
FoSTaC Food Safety Supervisor (Advanced Catering), FSSAI
2023
HACCP Level 3, Highfield Qualifications
2022
SKILLS
Cookinggrill, continental cuisine, à la carte, banquets, plating, menu development
Food safetyHACCP, food hygiene, allergen control, temperature logs
Kitchen costs: food cost, portion control, FIFO, ordering, waste reduction
Layout

A tight technical sans. Each role sits on one row, with skills in an aligned column. Switching layouts never changes the words.

Use this exampleSee all templates

Opens in the Studio on this device, in the Compact layout. Replace the sample details with your own before you export.

Try it with your name

A preview only. Nothing is saved.

Chef resumes are judged on the kitchen you held up, not on a love of food. A head chef reading one wants your station or rank, covers a service, the cuisine, food safety training such as HACCP or a local certificate, and how you handled food cost, waste and ordering. This example puts each of those in terms a kitchen understands.

Chef resume summary example

Target roleChef de Partie
SummaryChef with seven years in hotel and restaurant kitchens, running the grill and continental stations. HACCP and FoSTaC trained, with menu development and food cost control at chef de partie level.
4 of this role's keywords are in the summary
  • HACCP
  • menu development
  • food cost
  • chef de partie

The candidate is fictional, so swap in your own numbers. Stuck? The resume summary generator drafts one from your title and results.

Why most chefs don't get the call

Skills and keywords for a chef resume

Applicant tracking systems match on literal strings. Spell each term the way the job posting spells it, and group related skills so people and parsers can both follow it.

Kitchen roles

  • chef de partie
  • sous chef
  • commis chef
  • line cook
  • station
  • brigade

Cooking

  • food preparation
  • mise en place
  • à la carte
  • banquets
  • menu development
  • plating

Food safety

  • HACCP
  • food safety
  • food hygiene
  • allergen control
  • temperature logs
  • kitchen sanitation

Kitchen costs

  • food cost
  • portion control
  • stock rotation
  • FIFO
  • ordering
  • waste reduction

Have the real job posting? Paste it into the keyword scanner to see the skills it asks for most, and which ones your resume is missing.

Why each choice was made

  1. Why covers are the headline number

    Covers a service is the number every kitchen understands. It shows the pace you worked at better than any adjective about a busy kitchen.

  2. Why food safety gets its own section

    Kitchens are inspected and hiring chefs check certificates early. A Certifications section with HACCP and the local food safety course lets them confirm it at a glance.

  3. Why food cost appears on a chef de partie resume

    Sous chef roles ask for cost and waste control. Showing it at chef de partie level makes the next step up easy for a reader to picture.

Chef resume questions

See all ATS-friendly resume templates, check your file with the free ATS resume checker, or read how each ATS reads resumes.

What skills should I put on a chef resume?

The skills the job posting names, spelled the way it spells them. For a chef that often includes chef de partie, sous chef, food preparation, mise en place, HACCP and food safety. Show each one in a bullet with a result, then list the core ones again in a short skills section.

How do I write a chef resume summary?

Keep it to two or three sentences: your years of experience and where, the scale of your work, and one result with a number. Leave out words a recruiter cannot check, like hardworking or passionate. The example summary on this page shows the pattern.

Is this chef resume template free?

Yes. Open it in the Studio, replace the example with your own work and download it as a PDF in a free design (Clean, Signal, Editorial and Minimal). Word files and the other designs come with ATSPrep Pro. There is no watermark; downloading needs a free account.

Is this chef resume template ATS friendly?

Yes. It is one column of real text with standard section headings, and no tables, text boxes or text inside images, so parsers read it in order. Run your finished file through the free ATS resume checker to see the text it gives back.

Keep the pattern. Tell your story.

The Studio opens with this chef example loaded. Edit any bullet and the Review score updates as you type. Editing needs no account; downloading needs a free one.

  1. Keep the hierarchy. Same section order, plain-text contact details.
  2. Replace every claim. Your scope, your numbers, your tools. Never borrowed achievements.
  3. Run the Review again. Watch the score respond to the evidence in your version.
Open it in the StudioTrack your applications

$0 forever · No watermark · No card · No account to start

What each system will do to this file.

What each applicant tracking system accepts, read from the vendor's own documentation.