This whole ordeal has fucked us far worse than anything I’ve seen in nearly three decades in the industry. So what are we going to do? We’re going to bounce back from and this is how we’re going to do it. We needed to clean house Like it or not, …
I was on hold when I felt the spirit of my Old Man saying “Enough! You’ve proved your point now stop!”. The bastards been dead for nearly 5 years now and yet it feels like he’s still here. He raised me better, he raised me to always take the high …
I’m writing this from Oakland California and let me tell you, it’s weird out here right now. Saturday night and the streets are empty. There’s a collective sense of fear and uncertainty that’s unlike anything I’ve ever felt before. People are scared and confused and no one really knows what’s …
You’re only as good as the dumbest motherfucker on your crews and while a lot of people think that it ends with your staff, it doesn’t. People tend to forget that while there might be a few hundred restaurants in the area, we’re all still in the same game and …
The past few weeks have been a little crazy to say the least and now somehow I’m in New Orleans and clueless which way is up. After what happened, it’s a bit hard to stay focused and motivated. It’s hard to retain a sense of humor right after my entire …
Expectations and limitations….They’re the root of stress and resentment the Old Man used to remind me any time I’d get pissed off about something and, when looking at things objectively, the man had a point. It was always because I didn’t get the phone call or the job, that my …
One of the more recent trends in the industry is banning small children. This, predictably has caused quite a bit of uproar with owners saying that screaming kids are a major disturbance for the majority of patrons while parents are screaming discrimination. So where is the line? Oh, we all …
The restaurant industry is a strange beast and the question has always been “Did I turn out like this because of the Kitchen or did I just fit in the Kitchen because I was always like this?”. A lot of kids are getting in the game for the wrong reasons …
Just recently I did a poll asking people if they trusted restaurants to “self regulate” their own businesses or if they would rather have an unbiased inspection. For me this is common sense, I absolutely want an independent source rating my place. For the record, the poll came back with 89% …
Let’s face it, people and even a lot of animals love to get wasted. It’s hard to say when we first started drinking alcohol since, while we’ve learned to control the process, basic fermentation happens all the time in nature. From knowing what kind of fruit would get us tipsy …
