Lynny Schriock grew up in Ellensburg, Washington where there were many fresh vegetables (corn and many apple orchards…where you would find Lynny munching on apples). Lynny loved to help her mom when she was quite young - around 5 years old. She was and is always willing to help in the kitchen. Lynny has three older siblings and she is blessed with a supportive family-“If you dream it…it can happen”!

Lynny always wanted to go to a cooking school, but decided to go into studying Hotel & Restaurant Management…she went to C.W.U. (Central Washington University) in her hometown and eventually got her B.A. in Leisure Studies and a minor in Administrative Management…(she also went 1 ½ years to W.S.U.-Washington State University where she studied Hotel & Restaurant classes…but there was quite a waiting list to get into the program…so went back to C.W.U. and graduated. Lynny worked her way through high school & college at various foodservice establishments…

She began her “official” foodservice career at C.W.U. foodservice during the summers doing everything from scrape line to serving at banquets and various functions. This helped lead her into opening a Perkins Restaurant 5 days a week for the owners; while carrying a full load of college courses. Then when Lynny came back one summer from W.S.U. she decided to work to get credit for her cooking & catering skills at the local Holiday Inn (now Best Western) for her “practical experience” thus leading her into more skills to run the kitchen as a “sous chef” for the holiday Inn.

Lynny has worked at Crater Lake, OR. running the bar/lunch restaurant for a summer, then the following year in 1986 she worked as a 1st cook at Glacier Park’s main lodge where she and 2 others prepared approximately 250-300 dinners nightly! After continuing working she loved to travel and the next adventure landed her in Sun Valley, Idaho where she not only met the rich and famous but got to cook and manage a few banquets for a few of them too! She worked here for more than 2 years before moving to Seattle, WA.

Lynny was fortunate to have a friend of the family help her get a major job with Nordstrom’s Department store at the #2 store in Bellevue, Washington. Lynny learned quite a bit about the retail side of foodservice. Even though, Lynny moved to different parts of the country she ended up in Montana as a Foodservice Manager with a local University.

In addition, she has learned quite a variety about the restaurant and foodservice business, and (even has a published recipe in the Northwest Bounty Cookbook); every job/career move has helped her contributed to her wanting to work for herself. That is where PCN has come into play-to being a personal chef. She has attended the past two Personal Chefs Network conventions and is very active in the association.

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