History
Chef de cuisine, executive chef, chef manager, head chef, and master chef This person is in charge of all activities related to the kitchen, which usually includes menu creation, management of kitchen staff, ordering and purchasing of inventory, and plating design. Chef de cuisine is the traditional French term from which the English word chef is derived. Head chef is often used to designate someone with the same duties as an executive chef, but there is usually someone in charge of a head chef, possibly making the larger executive decisions such as direction of menu, final authority in staff management decisions.
Specialties
Our Process Our job boils down to one thing: maximizing your profit. At The Culinary Edge, we understand every client faces a different set of challenges in meeting this goal. This is why we've honed a flexible six-step process proven to create solutions that drive profitability by producing strategic branding, culinary, and operational solutions that work. DEFINE: Frame your business challenge We begin by investing time with you to bring consensus on a set of clearly defined business objectives. Reviewing your business's past activities, current practices, and future vision enables us to move forward decisively--articulating where you want to go and prioritizing the activities to get there. IDENTIFY: Unearth your opportunities Now with a clear sense of direction, we dive in and explore avenues of possibility. Through activities such as operations and culinary assessments, marketplace evaluation and guest satisfaction reviews, we identify opportunity spaces and strategies to drive the creative process CREATE: Create the solutions Here is where we begin to generate ideas. Through creative sessions, we develop the recommendations and tactical solutions that will make it possible for you to realize your opportunities DEVELOP: Produce the products With a plan in hand, we can now begin to make things. Whether developing gold standard recipes, prototyping packaging or creating kitchen blueprints, we translate the ideas into real, tangible products.