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Nestlé Golden Chef’s Hat Award alumni share their career advice

Hospitality Magazine

Competed: 2001–2003 My advice is to get involved and submerge yourself into everything the industry has to offer. I get inspired to make every day better than the last and I am driven by training and developing the next generation of chefs. A lot is learned and gained through repeat training and honing that training during service.

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Smart devices, smarter hackers?

Smart Brief Hospitality

It’s a pretty classic horror movie question, one that video games like System Shock and Portal and movies from “Demon Seed” to “2001: A Space Odyssey” have given a technological edge. How businesses can manage security for AI and the IoT What if your house wanted to kill you?

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Gilpin Hotel and Lake House announces three new chefs

Hotel Owner

he trained at Restaurant Hywel Jones and was also head chef of the Brasserie at Lucknam Park. The Gilpin Hotel and Lake House is run by Zoë and Barney Cunliffe, having joined Barney’s parents, John and Christine Cunliffe in 2001. Ohol worked as sous chef at HRiSHi. He has also been named National Chef of the Year for Wales.

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Adam Byatt named new chair of RACA

Hotel Owner

Byatt’s style of food is modern British with a French gastronomic influence due in part to his grandfather’s experience as a cook in the army, and his mother’s career as a professionally trained cook. In 2001, Byatt opened Thyme, his first restaurant, which was an instant success winning awards including Time Out Restaurant of the Year 2003.

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Experience Is the Best Teacher: Five Things My Father — and Hard Times — Have Taught Me About Leadership in the Restaurant Industry

Modern Restaurant Management

In the good times, this looks like rigorous training, a dedication to time-honored processes, and a focus on building your culture. It was extremely expensive, but well worth the cost considering the value of our trained, knowledgeable teams. Get Better. Several months into 2002 we had lines out the door, and we were ready for them.

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Creating a Celebrated Culture

Modern Restaurant Management

When she started there in 2001, she admits they followed more traditional Human Resources approaches: 360-degree feedback reviews, training managers on performance reviews, and creating manuals that no one would even open. ” Schatz has seen the evolution of the culture at Sonny’s BBQ firsthand.

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The Pandemic’s Effect on Restaurant Supplies

Modern Restaurant Management

In 2001, Tim was wrapping up work on one of the very first online operations in our industry and preparing to launch our website when he died suddenly. We also continually invest in our associates with team building, support, new benefits, and trainings that equip them to better serve our customers. What is the history of KaTom?