As a foodservice marketer and traveling chef, Swihart draws on his enthusiasm, his thorough education, and his experience in publicity, promotion and marketing to do creative consulting work. In the past, he's served as a headwaiter, a food lab technician at Culinary Institute of America, executive chef of Lotos Club in NYC, and foodservice director and executive chef at Dudley-Anderson-Yutzy, The Ogilvy & Mather public relations company in NYC.