The Kitchen Manager
Back-of-House Systems Boss
“My launch slipped a week and the team is deflated. What do I do?”
Get the count first. What's done, what's left all day, what actually slipped: one list, taped where the whole crew can see it. Eighty-six anything launch doesn't need; a shorter menu goes out cleaner. Build tomorrow's prep list from what's left, one name and one due time on every line.
Heard? A crew goes flat when nobody can read the board, so give them a clean one and a first item they can close by lunch. Then feed them. Family meal, everybody sits, ten minutes on what went wrong and not a minute more.
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