Our Staff
LINDA BENNETT, PRESIDENT AND CREATIVE DIRECTOR
President and founder of Feast Your Eyes! Inc., Linda has had extensive experience in retail, restaurant, cafeteria and food concession business. She has owned and operated several retail stores including gift shops, plant shops, décor store, and gourmet food shop with café, tea house, ice cream parlour and diner before and during operation of a full scale catering and special event company. Linda is responsible for marketing and overall management of the company and is the creative force behind Feast Your Eyes! Event Design.
PAULA D’UVA, SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE
Paula has been with Feast Your Eyes! Inc. for over fifteen years with extensive experience in all aspects of event sales and events from the planning to the execution of all details including food production and service, rental equipment, entertainment, staging, public address equipment and whatever may be required. Paula takes great pride in her overall work giving great attention to details. Working with Paula will ensure a first class event!
Contact Paula: paula@feastyoureyes.ca 905.454.0159 ext. 116
CATHERINE SEARLE, CORPORATE ACCOUNTS
Catherine comes to us with many years of experience in the hotel industry and event industry. She started in the Hospitality Industry in 1985 as a Asst. Manager in the Harvest Room Restaurant at Four Seasons Inn On The Park Hotel. Shortly after she was promoted to Restaurant Manager. After a couple of years she joined the catering team as Catering Manager where she planned bar mitzvah’s, weddings, conventions, and corporate events. She later moved on and became part of the Opening Team for the new Marriott Eaton Centre Hotel where she worked as a Catering Manager. A couple years later she rejoined the Four Seasons Hotel in Yorkville, where she dealt with high end events, including the Toronto Film Festival. Later taking a break from the Hospitality Industry to raise two boys, she has returned to face the challenge of special events. She is currently handling our corporate meeting catering accounts. If you are planning meetings, training sessions or trade shows Catherine will suggest appropriate menus and follow through to make sure that you have everything you need at the right time.
Contact Catherine: catherine@feastyoureyes.ca 905-454-0159 ext. 111
CORY MARKS, EXECUTIVE CHEF
Cory has worked in the food and beverage industry for over 25 years with an extensive background in all types of catering including kosher style catering. Cory has worked in several hotels, restaurants and for numerous caterers in the Greater Toronto Area including Opulence (executive chef) and L’EAT. Cory’s passion for cooking started at a young age and has progressed over the years to the point where Cory likes to work with the freshest ingredients creating new ideas all the time. Cory likes to create custom menus based on the client’s needs and budget. Whatever you are looking for is probably somewhere in Cory’s repertoire.
Chef Cory stars in the popular cable network cooking show: ”Cooking With Cory”.
BRENT USPRECH, SOUS CHEF
As far back as he can remember, Brent just always loved to cook. He attended the University of Guelph to obtain his Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, but along the way he discovered that his true passion was in the culinary field, so he switched to George Brown College in 1991 and obtained his degree in Culinary Management.
His first job after culinary school was The Pickle Barrel where he was responsible for salads and pizzas. Soon he moved on to The Pasta Kitchen where he gained further experience. He landed the position of Head Chef at the well known Toronto restaurant, The Rivoli from 1997 to 2000. While there he enjoyed participating in the Taste of Toronto events for Second Harvest.
Later, as head chef at Tuto Fresco, he eventually took over the business and then partnered with B and B Fine Foods. This gave him the catering experience that brought him to work for some of the city’s most well know caterers. After several years as chef at Jaynes Gourmet and Catering by Risa he joined the culinary team at Feast Your Eyes. Brent’s perfectionism, attention to detail and willingness to get right in hands first and lead by example makes him an excellent addition to the executive catering staff at Feast Your Eyes.
ANDRE PORATO, SERVICE STAFF MANAGER
Andre has been with Feast Your Eyes! Inc. for over eighteen years and is our Senior Service Manager who is the Senior On-Site Manager for most of our larger events. Andre is also a creative and accomplished chef, and has extensive experience and background in the hotel and hospitality service industry. He is responsible for the hiring and training of all Feast Your Eyes! Inc. waiters and bartenders and is in charge of our extensive roster of waiters and station chefs who work exclusively on Feast Your Eyes! catering events
SOME OF FEAST YOUR EYES EVENT STAFF
All of our crew of waiters and station chefs are trained and supervised by our event and staff manager, Andre Porato. We have approximately twenty regular part time waiters and six event chefs, many of whom have been with us for more than ten years. They are all personable, well-groomed and uniformed individuals who have been trained to provide professional, impeccable service to the highest level of Feast Your Eyes! standards.
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Thank you so much for working so hard to make our wedding day perfect! The food was over the top delicious! The presentation was elegant, but also saliva inducing! I have to say that the wait staff, chef & bartender were attentive, friendly and went out of their way to make people comfortable. Just the fact that they introduced themselves to people helped our guests feel at ease around them! They were super!Our guests told us that "hands down" this was the best wedding they had ever been to! I really have to give you and your staff a lot of credit for helping achieve that kind of accolade. Again, thank you so much.
- Libby & Lorenso Valeriani
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