Track Overview
The job: decide what the food program is, whether it earns its place, and where it is going.
The shift: none. This is a quarterly job with weekly touches, and its decisions surface months later.
What makes it hard: the job requires holding two truths at once. The kitchen is not the main business and it is not incidental either — it is a retention mechanism whose revenue lands at the bar, and a director who forgets either half will either starve the kitchen or over-invest in it.
Prerequisites: Modules 35, 42, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53. Plus the Kitchen Manager track.
Contents
- Deciding What the Room Is
- Building the Menu Around It
- Does the Kitchen Earn Its Place
- Program Standards
- Capacity and Growth
- The Event Calendar as the Planning Unit
- Building the Bench Across the Program
- Deciding What Comes Off
- Working With the Room's Other Departments
- Where the Program Goes
Lessons
- Lesson 1 — Deciding What the Room Is
- Lesson 2 — Building the Menu Around It
- Lesson 3 — Does the Kitchen Earn Its Place
- Lesson 4 — Program Standards
- Lesson 5 — Capacity and Growth
- Lesson 6 — The Event Calendar as the Planning Unit
- Lesson 7 — Building the Bench Across the Program
- Lesson 8 — Deciding What Comes Off
- Lesson 9 — Working With the Room's Other Departments
- Lesson 10 — Where the Program Goes