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Matilde de la Torre has extensive experience in food safety and nutrition, currently serving as the Food Safety Coordinator at Sushi Maki since July 2011. In this role, Matilde oversees compliance for 20 locations, including restaurants, supermarkets, universities, a commissary/production plant, and a catering division, ensuring adherence to regulations from various oversight bodies such as the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, Department of Agriculture, Department of Health, the FDA, along with third-party audits from Everclean and NSF. Prior to this position, Matilde worked as a Nutritional Consultant at Naturhouse from September 2009 to April 2011, where responsibilities included creating customized nutritional and diet plans based on thorough assessments of client needs. Matilde holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science and Technology from Florida State University, obtained in 2009.
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CEO, Abe Ng founded Sushi Maki in 2000. The restaurant has since been recognized as South Florida’s award-winning leader in innovative Japanese cuisine serving fresh, premium quality fare in a relaxed and modern environment. We believe sushi should be approachable and fun for everyone! Our mission is to be the most trusted leader in branded sushi, embraced by health-conscious, luxe-leaning consumers through the operation of stylish sushi restaurants, branded kiosks, and a community-wide distribution ecosystem. Our approach is simple: Sushi Maki is passionate about providing the freshest and finest quality food. We are the only sushi restaurant company in all of South Florida where all seafood is responsibly sourced, sustainable where possible, and free of any preservatives or artificial ingredients. To these pristine ingredients, we add our own unique culinary creativity, spiced with Miami flavors resulting in a menu of diverse selections. Sushi Maki believes in sushi as the food of the future: healthy, balanced, portable, delicious, customizable, natural; the perfect food-on-the-go for the modern lifestyle.