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Cake day: March 1st, 2024

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  • Absolutely, it’s amazing how much each spect of the career has different disciplines - for example when you can set up an event from soup to nuts, so to speak: Make a menu, get a budget, get the product, gat the cooks to produce it, execute the event, and then reconcile the costs, feedback from the guests (and your boss/business owner) and have everything go as planned has each its own sense of satisfaction and heartburn.

    This year marks 40 years, everything from McDonald’s to 4* 5 Diamond restaurants, several countries and 3 continents, which finally led to us opening a humble little BBQ joint ran by just us 2 (and a couple neighbor kids during high season) and it took all that experience (and, luck!) to survive the opening 4 months before COVID, lol.

    Cooking at home is more simplified, and more satisfying.


  • Yes, and no.

    Some jobs were hell and some were amazing, but I was always happiest cooking for the family (kids are grown and gone, so now it’s mostly the two of us).

    I like the diversity of what I can prep at home, sometimes (when we’re flat out at the restaurant) seeing what i can week out that’s good with no ingredients.

    Basically it’s the different challenges at home vs. the daily grind that make the difference for me. Some days I like the consistency that work brings, and sometimes it’s just something to check off a list so I can get home and do ‘some real food’.