Title: What and who makes the easier life in the kitchen and in the hospitality industry?
Introduction
The kitchen brigade is an organizational hierarchy for professional kitchens organized by the legendary French chef, Georges-Auguste Escoffier. (culinaryLore.com, 2017). Born 28 October 1846 in France and died 12 February 1935. He is known as “the king of chefs and the father of kitchen brigade,” who received a global status as manager of the kitchens at the Savoy Hotel (1890 to1899). (Auguste Escoffier, 2017). The kitchen brigade improves or helps to update and simplifies work in the hotel kitchens, removes disorder and repetition of effort and each position has a station and clear tasks. The kitchen brigade signifies efficient work inside
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The classical brigade includes a chef who was directly in charge of production. Production in the kitchen was divided into stations which were overseen by the following chef de partie. Modern kitchens are attractive and stylish and are really suited to those that want their kitchen to be a real work of art. Efficient and fashionable, the modern style makes use of sharp, straight lines and block shapes, as opposed to the curves and organic shapes that are common within the traditional kitchen. (Modern vs. Traditional Kitchen, …show more content…
If I can apply the basic variation of Escoffier's kitchen brigade am sure that as a future leader or manager I will be able to provide the guideline that will help employees to perform vital tasks to stay competitive in the market. Train and educate staff to increase the knowledge about kitchen activities and promote teamwork to improve communication also promote uniform for safety purpose.
Conclusion
The king of Chef Auguste Escoffier carried a structure to the kitchen, with different self-determining roles and responsibilities for line cooks. Keep work clean as you go and every post has division and clear focus job. Many of these roles have been combined or even removed over time. This rearrangement was the primary change among the classical kitchen Hierarchy and the kitchen Hierarchy of today. Helps to know the knowledge, shows the positioning of staff, keeps distance between the position and is developed for the smooth operation in past and is also functioning same even
This discussion is on a food production company which is divided into two groups: Those that prepare and serve food and those that produce and distribute food, equipment, and services needed by food providers. The most common example of the first group food staffs are Restaurants employ who manages 60% of the work to be done within company. The former includes staffs, hosts, and busboys. The latter includes chefs, cooks, managers, and dishwashers. Fast food restaurants limit their employ to food preparation people, managers, and cashiers. The trend of food trucks adds a mobile
One of these many thing was what the kitchen staff wore. Antonin was the first person to implement the double-breasted kitchen jackets, the tall hats for the chefs and the caps for the cooks (Oulton). These were both white to symbolize the cleanliness (Why Do Chefs Wear White). We still see this uniform in kitchens today (Oulton). Another thing that Carême modernized was the organization of sauces. He classified the different sauces in to different categories, Béchamel, Espagnole, Veloute, and Allemande (History of Sauces). His classification would later be changed by Auguste Escoffier. These categories were made up by looking at the characteristics of the sauces. For example, all sauces under the béchamel category would be made from a roux, which consists of flour, boiled milk, and butter (Oulton,
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Hi Chassidy, I enjoyed reading your post. When you mentioned “people think that host and hostess is an easy job” I am so guilty “lol” because I use to think that as well until I did my research. I agree on many things that you discuss in your discussion like for one host and hostess should have good hygiene and cares about the appearance of their uniform. That is very important since they are the first employees that greet the guest when they enter the restaurant. That is some of the issue that I will inform my employees about in my future business.
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