If your chef is talented, respected and well paid but your food cost is still a mess, this is for you. I see this problem most often when restaurant owners are not cooks. They hire a chef and assume that is what they need in the kitchen and solves everything. The chef then defines their own role an...
Are you treating your chef like an artist instead of a manager? If so, you're making a big mistake. Let’s talk about why your chef isn’t just a cook — they need to be a leader.
A lot of restaurant owners make the mistake of treating their chef like a creative genius, someone whose primary job is to...
Is it better to hire a chef as a restaurant manager in the kitchen? The short answer is that there's only one difference between a chef as a manager in the kitchen and a manager with general kitchen knowledge. Regardless of which type of restaurant manager you hire for the kitchen, here are the skil...
