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Kitchen crew resume examples from 2025

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Updated March 26, 2025
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How to write a kitchen crew resume

Craft a resume summary statement

A well-written resume summary is basically an elevator pitch. You are summing up your skills and experience in a few sentences to wow recruiters, hiring managers, and decision makers into giving you an interview. Here are some tips to putting your best foot first with your resume summary:

Step 1: Mention your current job title or the role you're pursuing.

Step 2: Include your years of experience in kitchen crew-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 kitchen crew interviews.

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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:

  1. Start with the job listing. Frequently, the keywords looked for by recruiters will be listed. Be careful to include all skills in the job listing you have experience with.
  2. Consider all the software and tools you use on a daily basis. When in doubt, list them!
  3. Make sure you use accurate and up to date terms for all the skills listed.
These five steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some kitchen crew interviews.

Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a kitchen crew resume:

  • Food Handling
  • Safety Standards
  • Cleanliness
  • Culinary
  • Food Quality
  • Food Products
  • Food Orders
  • Fryers
  • Customer Service
  • Kitchen Equipment
  • Dishwashers
  • Food Service
  • Food Preparation
  • Food Safety Procedures
  • Customer Orders
  • Clean Kitchen
  • POS
  • Quality Products
  • Kitchen Floors
  • Buffets
  • Phone Orders
  • General Maintenance
  • Cooking Food
  • Clean Environment
  • Deep Fat Fryers
  • Making Salads
  • Customer Complaints
  • Cooking Surfaces
  • Large-Volume Cooking Equipment
  • Deep-Fat Fryers

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How to structure your work experience

Your work experience should be structured:

  1. With your most recent roles first, followed by earlier roles in reverse chronological order.
  2. Job title, along with company name and location on the left.
  3. Put the corresponding dates of employment on the left side.
  4. Keep only relevant jobs on your work experience.

How to write kitchen crew experience bullet points

Remember, your resume is not a list of responsibilities or a job description. This is your chance to show why you're good at your job and what you accomplished.

Use the XYZ formula for your work experience bullet points. Here's how it works:

  • 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.

This creates bullet points that read Achieved X, measured by Y, by doing Z.

Here are great bullet points from kitchen crew resumes:

Work history example #1

Kitchen Crew

Cracker Barrel

  • Facilitated communication among staff and management.
  • Ensured proper communication through several channels of restaurant to tend to guests.
  • Coordinated birthday parties -Attained quality fast food service -Monitored efficient business through frequent restock -Operated cash registers and drive-thru
  • Mastered Point of Sale (POS) program to ensure accurate cash and credit transactions.
  • Ensured a positive customer experience through good communication and proper training.

Work history example #2

Car Washer

Carpool

  • Worked directly with clients; understanding their needs to ensured complete customer satisfaction using written and oral communication.
  • Cleaned shelves, walls, and other room surfaces and swept and mopped floors with disinfectant.
  • Required advanced problem solving and troubleshooting different situations, along with strong communication with co-workers.
  • Developed and promoted the 15 degree tipped axis Neptune Washer concept which has been adopted by numerous other washer manufactures.
  • Vacuumed interior, cleaned upholstery, rugs and other surfaces, added air freshness.

Work history example #3

Cook/Team Member

McDonald's

  • Cleaned and prepped kitchen Washed dishes Cooked food using grill and deep fryer Assembled sandwiches
  • Maintained a positive attitude, followed professional guidelines and kept customer satisfaction above all.
  • Communicated clear and positive directions.
  • Ensured area met McDonalds health and hygiene requirements by cleaning and stocking.
  • Interacted with customers at drive-thru window and at counter.

Work history example #4

Kitchen Crew

Burger King

  • Managed drive-thru, to assist in speedy production of quality fast food products and meeting adequate standards of Burger king cooperation.
  • Washed dishes, ran line.
  • Supervised cleaning of the store Customer service on front counter and drive-thru Fill in shifts when other employees were absent.
  • Worked kitchen area to help make burgers, sandwiches and other food items sold as needed.
  • Operated Drive-Thru Stocking and Inventory.

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Add an education section to your resume

The education section should display your highest degree first.

Place your education section appropriately on your resume. If you graduated over 5 years ago, this section should be at the bottom of your resume. If you just graduated and 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 for resumes:

Doctoral Degree in business

American InterContinental University, Chandler, AZ

2015 - 2018

High School Diploma

2016 - 2016

Highlight your kitchen crew certifications on your resume

Certifications are a great way to showcase special expertise or niche skills. Some jobs even require certifications to be hired.

Start simple. Include the full name of the certification. It's also good to mention the organization that issued the certification. Next, specify when you obtained the certification.

If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your kitchen crew resume:

  1. OSHA Safety Certificate

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