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Chef Stefania Panza Scotto is award winning chef with extensive experience leveraging cost planning, inventory purchasing, and vendor negotiation skills to expertly manage a prestigious culinary environment. Award- winning professional with a proven ability to direct all internal operations within a restaurant setting, including cuisine development and standardization, staff acquisition and improvement, profit and loss (P&L) calculations, and cost-saving augmentations.
Collaborative problem-solver with a sound history of coordinating with teammates, senior leadership, and third-party vendors to assess areas of inefficiency in instituting comprehensive process improvements that optimize business practices.
Chef Stefania Panza Scotto is a graduate from The American Culinary Institute in New York.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefania-panza-scotto-271235141/
Among all her culinary awards are:
2006 Readers’ Choice Award Winner |Best Italian Restaurant
2007: News Journal Readers’ Choice Awards: 1st Place Winner, Best Dessert and Finalist, First Date, Crab Cakes, Dinner with Friends, Italian Restaurant, Best New Restaurant, and Best Soup categories
2008: Best Of Newark by US Local Business Association | 2008 News Journal Readers’ Choice Finalist, Best Italian Restaurant: Best First Date & Best Crab Cake
2009: Best of Newark By US Local Association| 2009: Delaware Today Best Décor , Upstate & Critics | 2009: National Restaurant Association | 2009: Restaurant Neighbor Award | 2009: News Journal Readers’ Choice Finalist Best Italian Restaurant: Best Restaurant (Overall), Best Lunch, Best Family Dinning | 2009: Best Italian Fine Dining by Best of Metromix Delaware | 2009: Italian Association “Business Woman of the Year”
2010: Delaware Today Best Contemporary Italian Critic Award | 2010: Ernst & young Semifinalist National Entrepreneurship Award “Greater of Philadelphia”
2011: Best Run Company in the Northeast by SMARTCEO 100 | 2011: American Culinary Federation TOP 8 Chef’s in the Galbany Competition
2012: Best National Plating by Oneida International Plating Competition
2014: Best Italian Chef in the World by the Ospitalia’ Italiana
2015: Woman Entrepreneur of the Year by SBA in Delaware
