Catering

Pizza chef CV: example and template

This example is for pizza chefs at pizzerias, Italian restaurants and delivery kitchens, and for cooks and kitchen assistants who want to specialise in pizza.

The employer wants to know how you make dough, which oven you work with, which pizza styles you know, how many pizzas you make at peak times and how you look after ingredients and hygiene. We show you how to describe this on your CV.

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Example CV: pizza chef

All the details in this example are fictional. Treat it as a model of layout and wording, and replace the content with your own experience.

Bartosz Kazmierczak

Pizza chef

Gdynia +48 123 456 789 bartosz.kazmierczak@example.com

Professional profile

Pizza chef with 6 years of experience at a Neapolitan pizzeria with a wood-fired oven. I make dough with a pre-ferment and up to 48 hours of fermentation, shape and bake pizzas, manage the oven temperature and prepare ingredients. On Friday evenings I bake around 120 pizzas in 4 hours, and the dough and sauce recipes I developed are now the restaurant's standard.

Work experience

Pizza chef

04.2021 - present

Neapolitan pizzeria, Gdynia

  • Pre-ferment dough with up to 48 hours of fermentation.
  • Shaping and baking in a wood-fired oven.
  • Around 120 pizzas in 4 hours on Friday evenings.
  • Dough and sauce recipes adopted as the restaurant's standard.
  • Ordering ingredients, checking deliveries and station hygiene.

Kitchen assistant and pizza maker

05.2018 - 03.2021

Delivery restaurant, Gdansk

  • Preparing ingredients.
  • Pizza in an electric oven.
  • Packing delivery orders.

Education

Cook

2014 - 2017

School of Catering in Gdansk

Skills

  • Making dough and pre-ferments
  • Baking in a wood-fired oven
  • Neapolitan and Roman pizza
  • Working at a fast pace
  • Preparing ingredients
  • Food safety rules

Courses

  • Neapolitan pizza course, 2021
  • Sanitary and epidemiological health certificate
  • Food safety rules training, 2022

Languages

  • English: B1
  • Italian: A2

Additional information

  • Weekend and evening work

I hereby consent to the processing of my personal data for the purposes necessary to carry out the recruitment process, in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 (GDPR).

How to write a pizza chef CV

Professional summary

Write how you make dough, which oven you work with and which pizza styles you know. Add a result, for example pizzas at peak time. The employer is looking for a pizza chef who makes consistently good pizza and does not slow down when a wave of orders comes in.

Kitchen assistant with 2 years of experience at a delivery restaurant. I prepare ingredients, bake pizza in an electric oven and pack orders. I am looking for work as a pizza chef at a pizzeria with a wood-fired oven.

Experience: duties and achievements

Describe the restaurant, oven, dough, pizza styles, pace and ingredients. Show results in numbers. Add courses and a sanitary certificate. Also say whether you train new pizza chefs or develop new menu items.

Weaker: Dough.

Better: Pre-ferment dough with up to 48 hours of fermentation.

Weaker: Pace.

Better: Around 120 pizzas in 4 hours on Friday evenings.

Weaker: Recipes.

Better: Dough and sauce recipes adopted as the restaurant's standard.

Skills worth listing

List dough, the oven, pizza styles, pace, ingredients and hygiene. In your soft skills show resilience to stress, accuracy and teamwork.

Professional skills

  • Dough and pre-ferment
  • Wood-fired oven
  • Neapolitan pizza
  • Working pace
  • Ingredients
  • Hygiene

Personal skills

  • Resilience to stress
  • Accuracy
  • Teamwork
  • Passion
  • Punctuality

Courses

List pizza courses, a sanitary certificate and food safety training. A course in a specific pizza style makes your CV stand out.

First job as a pizza chef

Most people start as a kitchen assistant at a pizzeria. On your CV show kitchen work and willingness to learn.

Add a sanitary certificate. In Poland you cannot work with food without one.

Tailoring your CV to the job offer

A Neapolitan pizzeria looks for a wood-fired oven and dough, a delivery kitchen for speed and consistency, and an Italian restaurant for wider knowledge of the cuisine. Move to the top what the job ad is about. If you know gas and electric ovens, not only wood-fired ones, add this, because it widens the range of jobs.

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Questions and answers

What should a pizza chef put on a CV?

The restaurant, oven, dough, pizza styles, pace, ingredients, courses and sanitary certificate.

Is a pizza course needed?

No, but it helps, especially at Neapolitan pizzerias.

Which results are worth giving?

Pizzas at peak time, recipes developed and few complaints.

Does knowing Italian help?

At restaurants run by Italians it can be a big advantage.

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