Our Team
Our Team
The Festive Kitchen rockstars
STAFF
meet the team
Randy Botelho
Culinary Chief Chef/Coach
With vast expertise in food presentation, Randy brings savvy experience, creativity, and leadership to the culinary team at the commissary kitchen.
Sandy Korem
Founder/CEO
Self-taught in the culinary arts, Sandy started the company in 1991. Under her guidance, The Festive Kitchen has been awarded numerous awards including The White House Food Service Medallion. She is also a frequent speaker at national restaurant shows, and contributor to several national food publications.
Leslie Riddle
Captain of the Mothership
Heading up operations of two retail food shops, commissary kitchen, a dessert production kitchen and a frozen production kitchen is a hard work, but Leslie loves the creativity and challenges of the job.
Patti Hunter
Retail Operations General Manager
With 26 years of continued growth, Patti keeps the company in compliance so we can change “on a dime” to meet the needs of our customers.
Terri Felts
Snider Food Shop Manager
With many years of corporate retail food experience, Terri reminds us all every day how much she loves her customers!
DIANE ZANOTELLI
RICHARDSON FOOD SHOP MANAGER
Years of corporate catering experience + love of people = enthusiasm. Diane’s trademark brand of customer service!
CHRISTI MANN
Catering Producer
Christi has vast retail experience with FK food shops and event rentals. Her contagious enthusiasm is a hallmark of her unrivaled client customer service.
Jared Schmidt
Dignity Account Manager
Jared’s background in culinary operations is well suited for this exclusive account that
operates 24/7 … 365 days of the year.
EDDIE SZEP
Catering Producer
With many years of high end retail food experience, Eddie brings his can-do attitude to work every day to help our customers have an easy, memorable experience.
JODI DELAY
Director of Catering and Food Shop Culinary Operations
With over 20 years of Festive experience, Jodi leads our catering and food shop teams in making our customer’s event and shopping experiences Festive Fabulous!
LULU RODRIQUEZ
KITCHEN MANAGER
1-800 LuLu. Anything, anytime, anywhere…she can do it all.
MARIA MONCADA
FROZEN PRODUCTION MANAGER
Maria has managed the production of over 8 million of our hand-scooped cookie dough balls…and still counting. Her team produces over 60 of the items sold at Festive Kitchen food shops on a daily basis.
