Blaze manages our programs for the restaurant, hotel, and resort clients of the family holdings company. With 5 years of opening and managing restaurants for Curio Collection – Hilton (Houston), Coral Tree Hospitality (Denver), and most recently Life House Hospitality (NYC), his increasing portfolio as Chef de Partie, Sous to Executive Sous Chef at Cape Cod in Massachusetts offers client partners a balanced yet aggressive timeline to increasing revenue targets and guest satisfaction.
From robotic rollouts at the very 1st stadium to offer service to delivery for the NBA to automation and PropTech-based restaurant management for McDonalds, Chick-fil-A, to Top Golf and AT&T Center in Dallas, we are able to support OnDemand Workforce Solutions for FOH-BOH with the world’s best-selling robot and technology brands. Combined for Phase I or II CleanTech Integration, we can provide a 10% Energy Reduction YoY that owner-operators can appreciate in today’s challenging restaurant market.
Restaurant and Hotel Portfolio
Culinary Executive Blaze Viriña
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Executive Sous Chef for the US’ 5th Oldest Hotel and Culinary Lead responsible for Restaurant, Resort Launches and Management
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Simon Malls
Culinary, GrindGrub
From the Gulf Coast and Most Diverse City in the US to the 3rd Most Oldest Hotel in America and the Exclusive Coastal Getaway of Martha’s Vineyard
PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIO —
• Faraway Hotel (Massachusetts): Exec Sous Chef, 2024+
• Pelican Club: Exec Sous Chef, 2024+
• Life House Hospitality (NYC): Executive Sous Chef, 2023
• The Newes from America, Exec Sous Chef, 2023
• Coral Tree Hospitality (Denver), Chef de Partie, 2021-22
• E’terie at Curio Collection – Hughes Landing (Texas): Chef de Partie, 2019-20
• Maine-ly Seafood The Woodlands: Lead Cook and Asst Restaurant Manager, 2016-18
• Baja Cantina – Food Popups & Festival: Food Stylist, 2018-2019
Travel + Leisure portfolio
Curriculum Vitae (or CV as we all call it) literally translates as the “course of life”. Charting the journey traveled in an industry that highlights experiences lived, new places visited, and of course the food enjoyed along the way.
