VERONA, N.Y. – Scott Kidd of Lincoln, Calif. has been chosen as vice president of food and beverage at the Oneida Nation’s Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Upstate New York.
He has more than 25 years of experience in the resort food and beverage industry. He will oversee all of the food and beverage operations at Turning Stone, including more than 15 restaurants, catering for hundreds of business meetings and wedding receptions, all beverage operations, room service and the employee cafeteria, as well as a staff of more 1,100 people.
A graduate of famed Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., Kidd was most recently vice president of food and beverage at Thunder Valley Resort and Casino in Lincoln, Calif. Before working at Thunder Valley, he was executive chef and executive director of food and beverage at Barona Valley Ranch and Casino in San Diego. Earlier in his career, he served as executive chef with Grand Canyon National Park Lodges in Arizona and executive chef at Knott’s Berry Farm in California.
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