Yeah, it’s been a blur but it’s been a fun one and even though I wasn’t paying attention the whole time, I still picked up a few things that might help you out. Enjoy. All great Chefs start in the pit and work their way up. I don’t care if …
I think the first time I saw the place it was in a music video back when MTV still aired such things. It was just one of those places that seemed tacky enough to be interesting while still being quality. Two years ago I finally made it while in LA …
Right now things are reopening, closing and reopening again and a whole lot of you are going to be going on interviews. This should help…. People tend to view interviews as a one sided, they’re judging you type of situation. No no no folks, this is simply not the case. …
I’ve been in the industry long enough to know that, each day could be my last and that my income is based on the whims of people who know far less then I do about the Kitchen and cooking. It’s a sad fact but the simple truth is that rarely …
From scratch….. It’s yet another one of those terms that sounds enlightened to morons who overuse it while being ignorant its true meaning. Now it seems that everything is “made from scratch” but no one really understands that it doesn’t really have a definition and it’s more or less a …
For those of you just getting into the industry, here are a few helpful tips to make things easier for both you and your coworkers
This is to the guys who’ve been in the game for ten years or more and are running crews of their own. We seriously need to step up and do a better job at being leaders. We need to spend our time and energy focused on building our crews and …
I’m crazy, clinically so, but I am far from stupid. After spending as much time as I have in Kitchens all over, I’ve learned to see through the bullshit and be able to tell the posers from the pro’s. While I have worked for some really amazing restaurant owners, I’ve …
The first one should have lasted, it’s biggest problem being the fact that it was in a cursed location that kills every place that’s tried to inhabit it over the past few decades. True, the owner didn’t know shit about running a restaurant but I really think that had he …
She was standing there screaming at me with the doors to the cafe wide open. Everyone in the Plaza could hear the whole thing and I swear I wasn’t trying to instigate and at the same time it was impossible for me to take things seriously. By this point I …
