364. How to Lead a Great Restaurant Kitchen - Chef Anthony Bucco

Any great kitchen is the “Heart of House”. Honoring this house requires creating a culture of passion, pride, and commitment to consistent quality. This takes a unique leader who both inspires, teaches, recognizes talent, and elevates each and every guest experience from the culinary team right down to the dish pit. In this episode of the Restaurant Rockstars Podcast, I’m speaking with Chef Anthony Bucco, the Senior VP of Culinary Operations for a dynamic family run restaurant group known for elevated dining experiences in historic properties. Chef’s early hospitality beginnings began in his grandmother’s kitchen where the culture of food brought family closer together. Ambition through his pride, passion and hard work rose Chef to the top of our industry. Watch or listen as Chef Bucco talks about: - Early cooking influences and how a culinary career path was developed - How to inspire, train and nurture a great kitchen team - The balance of leadership style and motivation for onboarding and training - Delivering true value to guests and never skimping on quality - Kitchen efficiencies and finding economies of scale - How to have the “big picture” to run multiple great kitchens and a commissary. - The challenges of maintaining margins amidst inflation and high labor cost - Knowing and monitoring critical numbers and key-performance indicators And of course, menu development, R & D and recognizing influential guests Don’t miss this episode, then go out there and ROCK your Restaurant! Roger Learn the Top 3 Restaurant Profit Killers and how to fix them: https://restaurantrockstars.com/profits/ Join The Restaurant Academy: Train your entire team to up level your business, maximize sales and optimize profits - Join the Restaurant Academy: https://restaurantrockstars.com/joinacademy Connect with us on Social Media: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roger-beaudoin-21590016 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/restaurantrockstars/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/restaurantrockstars X: https://twitter.com/RestaurantRock1 Subscribe to the Restaurant Rockstars Podcast: iTunes - https://apple.co/2WaKyqV Spotify - https://spoti.fi/3xGuOd0 Google - https://bit.ly/2VM10P1 Stitcher - https://bit.ly/3iFGAAb Soundcloud - https://bit.ly/3lYBhho Ask Roger a Question or Share a Restaurant story with us: https://www.speakpipe.com/RestaurantRockstars Thank you to our sponsors: The Birthday Club – Get new and repeat business, fill your tables, and boost sales with Birthdays: https://jointhebirthdayclub.com/BirthdayRockstar/ The Restaurant Academy: Everything you need to know to optimize profits and maximize sales https://restaurantrockstars.com/joinacademy/ Xenia: Your operations base camp that scales standard procedures, trains your team, controls operations, and even manages food safety. https://xenia.team/rockstars Popmenu: For a limited time only, popmenu is offering our listeners $100 off your first month plus an unchanging lifetime rate. FREE Demo: https://www.popmenu.com/rockstars