Operational Systems, Labour and Performance is where you stop solving the same problems every shift and start building the systems that hold them for you. Production, stock, labour, all under control, all on paper, all running whether you are on the pass or not.
Self-paced access inside the Academy. Part of the Module 1 to Module 5 path.
When you are the only one who knows the pars, the prep order, the true yield, the roster logic, the kitchen runs on you. It works, right up until you are sick, on leave, or stretched across two sections. This module turns what lives in your head into systems your team can hold, so the standard survives your absence and your labour stops leaking on the quiet shifts.
By the end of this module you can read every one, build the systems that move them, and put them on a scorecard you run every week.
These are the Kitchen Lab's numbers today. Across five weeks you find why they sit where they do, and build the systems that move them.
See the kitchen as systems, not a run of problems you personally solve every shift. Score where inconsistency is costing you, and pick the first system to rebuild.
Standardise the work. Portion variance, standardised recipes, and prep sheets built from confirmed covers, so the plate is the same on a quiet Tuesday as a full Saturday.
Find where the stock actually leaks: receiving, storage and rotation, production, service. Cost the waste, set the pars, and close the gaps for good.
Read labour by revenue per labour hour, not by feel. Roster to real demand, cost the over-rostered shift, and pull the biggest number on your P&L into line.
Bring it all together into one operational scorecard, with a target for every number that matters, and a plan to run it every week from the Monday you finish.
The Kitchen Lab is a dinner-led coastal café you work inside all the way through. You trace the leaks through production, stock and labour, rebuild the systems, and watch the numbers move, then take the same method home to your own pass.
90 seats. $2.4M a year. The systems that decide whether any of it turns into profit.
Self-paced access inside the Academy, at the pace your roster allows.
Five weeks of lessons and worksheets, made for the pass, not the classroom.
The full operational system: production, stock, labour, and the scorecard that holds them.
The Kitchen Lab case to trace, cost, and rebuild before you touch your own numbers.
A capstone that leaves you with an operational scorecard you run every week.
A live wrap-up session with Ricardo at the end of the module.
For the head chef and sous chef tired of being the only thing holding the kitchen together. If the standard drops the moment you step away, this is where you fix it.
Self-paced, start when you are ready. Modules 1 and 2 build the base this one stands on, and you can begin here if you already run your numbers.
They build the financial and menu base this module stands on, so they are the recommended path. If you already cost and read your own numbers, you can begin here.
The module is five weeks of structured work, but your access stays open. Go at the pace your roster allows and come back to the systems whenever you need them.
It is a live wrap-up session with Ricardo for chefs finishing the module together. Bring your scorecard and your questions.
An operational scorecard built on your own numbers, and the systems to hold it every week without living on the pass to do it.