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Description: Watch the video for my thoughts on transitioning from Executive Sous to Executive Chef. If you’re an Executive Chef, leave a piece of advice for an Exec Sous transitioning to Exec Chef in the comments. If you’re an Executive Sous, ask your questions about transition to an Exec Chef in the comments. www.legitconcepts.com

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Watch the video for my thoughts on transitioning from Executive Sous to Executive Chef. If you’re an Executive Chef, leave a piece of advice for an Exec Sous transitioning to Exec Chef in the comments. If you’re an Executive Sous, ask your questions about transition to an Exec Chef in the comments. www.legitconcepts.com

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In a lot of ways, the executive sous chef job feels like the executive chef job. And you know, it's not until you cross the hurdle that you really understand what you don't know. I know that's the case for me. And I mean that as respectfully as humanly possible. What I think it takes to get from Executive Sue to executive chef is really doing your job as perfectly as possible and trying to take the pieces off of your chef's plate. Now what I mean, right, I like to be as organized as humanly possible and so I like to organize my thoughts. And you know, if you break the job down into what we do, the majority of the time when we're talking about running an operations, we're talking about the purchasing of food, the production of food, the execution of food and the breakdown. That end, end of the day cleanup. And if you chop those things up into smaller pieces, you've got more finite detail. I think the biggest ability that an executive chef has, that an executive sous chef needs to develop is the idea that you can go to a higher level, zoom out and see the picture more as a whole, and then be able to recognize and zoom in on an area that's causing problems. So being able to see the operation. From a whole working in all of the little areas and knowing where the little blips might be coming from, where your challenges might be. And then obviously a great executive chef's going to know how to resolve them. There's always going to be new problems. There's always going to be new challenges. There's always going to be things that you haven't dealt with. So that's where it's important to have resources and it's important to have friends, colleagues, mentors, coaches, teachers, right? There's always going to be something new. There's always going to be a hidden aspect. Master the job that you have and do it as excellently as humanly possible. Once you do that. And you can communicate and you can manage with your cooks. Then you can support your shaft, your executive chef, whatever your boss's title is, and you can also start to support them in their role, working through budgets and financing and hiring pieces, right? Understand the more you climb that ladder, the further you get from the kitchen, and that may seem appealing, but it's a very uncharted territory, especially if you're used to cooking.

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Watch the video for my thoughts on transitioning from Executive Sous to Executive Chef. If you’re an Executive Chef, leave a piece of advice for an Exec Sous transitioning to Exec Chef in the comments. If you’re an Executive Sous, ask your questions about transition to an Exec Chef in the comments. www.legitconcepts.com

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From Reflection to Reinvention: Lessons Learned as a Chef Reflecting on past experiences as a sous chef, gaining valuable lessons, and transforming into a skilled chef. Embrace the opportunity to improve and avoid the mistakes of the past. Explore the journey of growth in this insightful video with Jordan Silverman #ChefLife #LessonsLearned #CareerGrowth #CulinaryJourney #ReflectionAndReinvention #KitchenExperience #ProfessionalDevelopment #GourmetInspiration #ChefTips #CulinarySkills
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A successful business isn't about the capacity or size of the structure. It's simply about the managerial executives skills and the extra comfort and love you have for doing that particular business. It's all about food quality and taste! ...... Then comes good customer services and visibility. Stop creating unnecessary labor cost in businesses. Some single restaurants with 3 different managers, head Chef executive Chef, Sous Chefs, Jr Sous Chef, Chef De Parties, demi chefs, come 123. Different supervisors, categories of hostesses and waiters/waitresses, Baristas of different categories. Then companies partners or bosses. Etc. Such types of companies will usually pay very low salaries because of unnecessary positions leading to high labor cost.
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Patience is so important in my opinion if you want a successful career as a professional chef. More and more I speak with Commis Chefs, thinking they're CDP's and CDP's thinking they're Sous Chefs. Take your time and learn your craft. Pick a great kitchen to work in and if you're patient and can stick at a good place for a long time and not be distracted by the external noise of jumping positions, carrots being dangled of huge pay rises & promises that the grass will be much greener elsewhere then you will go far in our industry. What are your thoughts? I'm interested to hear your comments below 👇 #ProfessionalChef #CareerDevelopment #ChefLife #CareerDevelopment
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