In Culinary I spent a significant amount of time in prep, just chopping onions. One day I tried out using the ROBOT COUPE and saved myself countless hours.

The day I decided to use the robot coupe, I was alone for prep that day, the other guy called in sick.  My list doubled.

Giving up... throwing in the towel, wasn't even an option to me. The service must go on.

I looked at the whole list, not just my half.  I basically in my mind was breaking recipes into ingreedients.

I was mapping my own recovery.  In the Kitchen when you get bogged down by the small errors of your own actions,

you land in the weeds.  I had been in the weeds a million times before that day.

I knew, if I didn't have a plan of attack, where I saved time by doing things once,

I was going to be in that prep kitchen from 6:30AM-8:15PM.

So I took my list and my memory of all the prep and went into the matrix for about 12 minutes.

After 3 coffees and 2 cigarettes I had a plan. Write it down... no time... just execute.

The shift was on the books for 6:30-2:30. Doubled work load and I still got the list done by 3:15.

Then, it was off to the night kitchen,  another shift,  a different rush. 

Lets talk about how I got to that point.  I was the kid who got in trouble with school and was ultimately given the options of school or work.

Did I have the brain to stay in school? I know I did.   But I also had this kid who saw the world of men, as a land of money.

Work was the only thing I could do, where being done first, wasn't a reason to be teased or bullied.

And I saw the harder I worked the faster these MEN accepted me.

So I became the machine, oh your bigger than me, ok but I still push a full wheel barrow of concrete down the planks 250 meters from the truck too.

But I don't get tired... I get wired. They saw a kid who was going to hurt himself... But I saw, I could catch the men... I could outlast them, I was young. 

I'm not selling you software; I'm installing the "ROBOT COUPE" for your operations.  While your competitors are still manual-prepping and bleeding labour costs, you'll be focused on the service.

The operational audit is where I take your data(read only), your inbox(read only) and your essay, to simmer the stock.

I look for inconsistencies and leaks to find the current lay of the land.  I look for the why, behind the actions.

Once I know your operation and your intention I can build the custom stack and figure out the most effective line up,  the direction to start in.

This becomes the baseline, then we map the future or adjust course, based on the live data we are collecting to always make the operation better one fix at a time.

Each fix gets rigorously tested to ensure at the busiest time this fix doesn't become the new problem.

They want to hand you a PDF of problems and drink their coffee from your machine and go to the next office. I want to see how your operation works and find the hidden revenue.

Take the money you currently just accept as a cost of business and aim that found time at the P, form your P&L.