Culinary Mechanic: Insights, Strategies, Tools and Tactics to help you run your restaurant like a well oiled machine

Culinary Mechanic: Insights, Strategies, Tools and Tactics to help you run your restaurant like a well oiled machine

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The Culinary Mechanic Podcast is focused on exploring the restaurant and hospitality industry to find the insights, strategies, tools and tactics to help chefs, owners and operators run restaurants like a well-oiled machine. Leveraging 30+ years of kitchen experience, Simon shares lessons learned, hard won knowledge and occasionally a good story. Combine those with conversations with chefs, restaurateurs and industry gurus, about what it takes to make your restaurant profitable and a great place to work. Culinary Mechanic was founded in 2022 as a virtual advisory firm for restaurants and culinary operations and is centered on the human aspects of running complex “machines”; employing time tested, industry leading systems and a no nonsense approach to hospitality, leadership and cost management.

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