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Tom Holloway Partner/Executive Chef and Director of Operations
Over time he was promoted to preparatory cook, and eventually lead line cook by the age of 17. Tom worked his way through his college studies in Restaurant Management at the University of New Hampshire, Whittemore School of Business & Economics, returning home on the weekends to work in the kitchen honing his skills. Tom continued his Studies of the Culinary Arts at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, RI. where he received an A.O.S. in 1992. After graduating J & W, Tom started his career at Legal Sea Foods (LSF), first as a line cook in their Burlington, MA location in1993. He was asked to join the LSF management team after just 8 months and became Kitchen Supervisor, then Kitchen Manager, and then Senior Kitchen Manager, to finally being named Chef (appointed by then Executive Chef Jasper White) Tom acted as Chef for many of LSF's highest volume Boston locations including the Prudential Center & Copley Plaza locations. In 1999 Tom was promoted to Corporate Training Chef. As Corporate Training Chef, Tom was responsible for training hundreds of restaurant managers and line staff members, and for traveling up and down the East coast, opening a total of 8 new LSF restaurants. In 2001 Tom was offered a partnership in The Savory Cafe, a gourmet cafe and catering company in Takoma Park, Maryland just outside of Washington, D.C. It was a strategic move that would allow Tom the time for outside concept consultations and development operations for other restaurants in the greater D.C. area, which had now become his home. After selling the Savory Cafe in 2003, Tom Joined The Capital Grille as Executive Chef of their Charlotte, NC restaurant for a brief time before catching the eye of, and joining, Jim Cafarelli in October of 2003 as Corporate Chef of Pescado in Coral Gables, FL. Tom unmistakably again proved he was a true team leader and In March of 2004, Tom moved back to Boston to oversee the opening of Rustic Kitchen, Cambridge, the second of 3 and soon-to-be-more Rustic Kitchen developments in the Northeast. It was here as Corporate Chef and General Manager that Tom began streamlining operations, changing menus, and restructuring the day-to-day operations for each of Jim's restaurant concepts and locations. Now as a Partner and Director of Operations for all Rustic Kitchen locations, Tom Holloway has come full circle. He will no doubt be instrumental in expanding the development plans for future Rustic Kitchen concepts, while maintaining internal structure and harmony within existing locations. |
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