Breakfast cook resume examples from 2025
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How to write a breakfast cook resume
Craft a resume summary statement
A resume summary is your opening statement that highlights your strongest skills and top accomplishments. It is your chance to quickly let recruiters know who you are professionally - and why they should hire you for the breakfast cook role.
Step 1: Mention your current job title or the role you're pursuing.
Step 2: Include your years of experience in breakfast cook-related roles. Consider adding relevant company and industry experience as relevant to the job listing.
Step 3: Highlight your greatest accomplishments. Here is your chance to make sure your biggest wins aren't buried in your resume.
Step 4: Again, keep it short. Your goal is to summarize your experience and highlight your accomplishments, not write a paragraph.
These four steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some breakfast cook interviews.Please upload your resume so Zippia’s job hunt AI can draft a summary statement for you.
List the right project manager skills
Your Skills section is a place to list all relevant skills and abilities. Here is how to make the most of your skills section and make sure you have the right keywords:
- Look at the job listing and skills listed. You need to include the exact keywords from the job description to get your resume in front of an actual human. Do you have those skills? Fantastic! Be sure to list them.
- Include as many relevant hard or technical breakfast cook skills as possible for each job you apply to.
- Be specific with the skills you have and be sure you are using the most up to date and accurate terms.
Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a breakfast cook resume:
- Food Handling
- Cleanliness
- Culinary
- Food Service
- Quality Standards
- Kitchen Equipment
- Food Products
- Fine Dining
- Dependability
- Guest Satisfaction
- Hotel Guests
- Slicers
- Safety Standards
- Breakfast Food
- Soups
- Breakfast Service
- Breakfast Buffet
- Dinner Service
- La Carte
- Steamers
- Food Orders
- Portion Control
- Fifo
- Food Preparation
- Cooking Surfaces
- Roasting
- Food Preparation Equipment
- Dishwashers
- Broilers
- Stoves
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How to structure your work experience
Your work experience should be structured:
- With your most recent roles first, followed by earlier roles in reverse chronological order.
- Job title, along with company name and location on the left.
- Put the corresponding dates of employment on the left side.
- Keep only relevant jobs on your work experience.
How to write breakfast cook experience bullet points
Effective job bullet points do more than just describe your job duties. Instead, they should be specific and measurable accomplishments. Here are some strategies to mastering job bullet points:
- Use strong action verbs like Led, Built, or Optimized.
- Follow up with numbers when possible to support your results. How much did performance improve? How much revenue did you drive?
- Wrap it up by explaining the actions you took to achieve the result and how you made an impact.
Here are examples from great breakfast cook resumes:
Work history example #1
Banquet Cook
Aramark
- Prepared food items for the Saute/ Deli / grill stations and catering events.
- Worked as a First Cook, graduated to a Sous Chef.
- Practiced all Hazardous Analysis Critical Control Point Procedures (HACCP) and protocol procedures.
- Engaged in extensive verbal interaction and communication with co-workers.
- Trained all employees for servsafe certification.
Work history example #2
Short Order Cook
McDonald's
- Carved deli meats for cold sandwiches or filled orders from steam table.
- Cooked and preped the food unloaded truck cleaned dishes & floors took out trash
- Cleaned and prepped kitchen Washed dishes Cooked food using grill and deep fryer Assembled sandwiches
- Cooked customer orders, dishwasher, kitchen prep, lobby custodian, kept kitchen clean.
- Handled food prep after receiving orders from customer service, operated grill, food handler and was a dishwasher.
Work history example #3
Chief Cook
Burger King
- Washed dishes, ran line.
- Operated oven, and washed dishes.Worked front counter, took customers orders, and took correct money for orders.
- Conducted food safety training to employees; obtained a ServSafe Certificate.
- Washed dishes, glasses, or utensils using machine, or on occasion by hand using the 3 sinks.
- Started as dishwasher and was promoted through many positions over several years, learning all necessary components of restaurant operations
Work history example #4
Breakfast Cook
Applebee's
- Promoted directly from dishwasher after outstanding leadership reviews.
- Established a high functioning kitchen team by promoting communication and efficient time management.
- Started as a server then moved to the BOH.
- Started off as a busboy, became Dishwasher, worked Pots and Pans and then Middle Line.
- Maintained sanitation of food areas utilizing HACCP procedures.
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Add an education section to your resume
Here is the best way to format your education section:
- Display your highest degree first.
- If you graduated over 5 years ago, put this section at the bottom of your resume. If you lack relevant work experience, the education section should go to the top.
- If you have a bachelor's or master's degree, do not list your high school education.
- If your graduation year is more than 15-20 years ago, it's better not to include dates in this section.
Here are some examples of good education entries from breakfast cook resumes:
High School Diploma
2014 - 2014
Highlight your breakfast cook certifications on your resume
If you have any additional certifications or education-like achievements, add them to the education section.
To list, use the full name of the certification and the organization that issued it, along with the date of achievement.
If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your breakfast cook resume:
- ServSafe Food Protection Manager Certification
- Certified Food Manager (CFM)
- Certified Professional - Food Safety (CP-FS)