Professional Career
Chef Cantu graduated from Western Culinary Institute (now a Le Cordon Bleu School). Shortly after graduating Cantu began working for free in nearly 50 top restaurants on the west coast of the United States. He moved to Chicago in 1999 to work for world renowned Chef Charlie Trotter. After leaving Charlie Trotter's in 2004, he was unemployed for one year while waiting for his restaurant Moto to open. During this unemployment period, Cantu spent hundreds of hours researching new technologies that he would patent and eventually integrate into his new restaurant. Chef Cantu has been approached by numerous Fortune 500 companies to assist in creative ideation and product development.
In the fall of 2009 Chef Cantu installed a state-of-the-art laboratory in his restaurant, Moto for his new television series Future Food and to expand his research and development capabilities with his company, Cantu Designs.
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