Associate of the Month

Our spotlight employee for the month of February is Anthony Leaks, he was born July 9th, 1986, in Miami Florida, Tony as we affectionately call him, was born to Tammy leaks and Anthony Martin. he attended Miami Southridge Senior high School… And Gainesville high School in Gainesville Florida.

In 2005 Tony became a father to his beautiful daughter followed by his son in 2007. Tony started working as a dishwasher at the Dragon fly sushi restaurant in Gainesville FL. By 2008 he was head of prep and doing major catering events with the university of Florida and the Florida Gator football team.

In 2010 Tony decided he needed more and move to Springs Colorado where he enrolled in college, to start his culinary course at Paragon Culinary School.

By 2012 he moved back to Gainesville and became the head chef at Beef o Brady’s while at Beef’s He competed in multiple restaurant competitions such as soup competition to burger competition while helping create special burgers every week which included reaching out to the local brewery and doing a beer pairing with the burgers. In 2017. He left Beef’s to become the head chef at Blue Highway for 2 years and was a certified culinary professional with Darden for a couple years. We are happy to have Tony a part of the Prado family.