Vijesh Puthen, chief steward at Dubai’s Media One Hotel won the Chief Steward of the Year title at the Caterer Middle East Awards last night, which was presented by A. Ronai managing director Gavin Dodd.
He implemented a new well defined breakage monitoring programme in the hotel and verified the result by daily monitoring, updating information to the concerned outlet managers on a daily basis.
This is Puthen's second time winning the Chief Steward of the Year award. He previously took home the trophy in 2013.
Unfortunately Vijesh Puthen from Media One Hotel couldn't be there to collect his award for Chief Steward of the Year so Girish Babu picked it up on his behalf.
Puthen started at Media One on 2011 in the role of kitchen steward. His previous job in Dubai was with the Address Hotel, Dubai Marina for 15 months, where he also worked as a steward. Prior to this, his hospitality experience was in Kerala, India when he worked with independent hotels as a steward and waiter. In January 2012, he was promoted to stewarding supervisor as a result of his hard work and positive contributions in the F&B Department. He is now responsible for a team of 10 stewards of mixed nationalities and provides an amazing service to the culinary team and hygiene manager.
Highly commended in this category was Ahmed ElSherif from Fairmont Nile City.
Sponsors of the Caterer Middle East Awards include: Gold sponsor DMK, TSSC, Ronai, MMI, Aramtec, MLA, Bragard, GEMCO, Unilever, SIAL, Party Social, Acqua Panna and San Pellegrino and Newby Teas.
You can find the full list of nominations for Chief steward of the Year here.
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