Joel Hoachuck

Joel Hoachuck has overseen restaurant teams from ten to hundreds of employees over his more than 30 years in the restaurant industry and has trained all of them. He began his career in France as a waiter, set sail on the QE2 as captain waiter and settled in the Napa Valley to hone his skills at the renowned Tra Vigne before holding various restaurant management positions at a variety of four-star restaurants including Bouchon, Auberge du Soleil, and Bottega. He is currently General Manager at El Dorado Kitchen in Sonoma, California.