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@chef_rodney_117, career, cleaver and blade, culinary tales, customers, direction, drinks, food, kitchen, restaurant, restaurant business, Rodney Lienhart, service industry - March 17, 2020

“Our Thyme is Cumin, So Peas be Patient”

During the outbreak of covid-19, something bad happened. Chef knives were being forced to be put down across the world. You could hear the silent fall of chef coats and aprons everywhere across the world. This was a sound that you could hear, but rather a feeling. This feeling isn't something that can be measured with comprehensible emotions. This travesty is one of the worst things to happen to our lifestyle ever. Most of us were slaves to perfect kitchen cleaning guidelines before this outbreak. Something that a good number of us would take pride in. Floors you could eat...

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@chef_rodney_117, career, chef, cleaver and blade, culinary tales, customers, direction, drinks, food, kitchen, love, restaurant, restaurant business, Rodney Lienhart, service industry - March 12, 2020

“When Life Gives you a Lemon.”

What kills kitchen moral faster than the coronavirus on a rampage to creep into your dining room and steal all of your patrons?

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@chef_rodney_117, career, chef, cleaver and blade, culinary tales, direction, drinks, food, kitchen, restaurant, restaurant business, Rodney Lienhart - March 05, 2020

“Wash Your Hands and Come to the Table.”

Have you ever been compared to another so-called family member with a “better” job than you?

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@chef_rodney_117, career, chef, cleaver and blade, culinary tales, direction, food, kitchen, restaurant, restaurant business, Rodney Lienhart, service industry - March 03, 2020

"Can I Get a Heard That?"

What happened to cooking old school? A lot of people these days say that cooking isn’t what it used to be? Well, with everyone pushing the limits on what we cook and how we cook it, no wonder we have strayed farther from the true meaning of cooking. Take a look at some of the food that's made these days. It should make you think. Goat cheese foam? It's not even cheese anymore at that point. So why call it that? It's a foam that's goat cheese flavored. Not to mention this whole deconstructed phase. Fuck it. People want an...

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@chef_rodney_117, cleaver and blade, culinary tales, customers, direction, drinks, food, kitchen, restaurant, restaurant business, Rodney Lienhart, service industry - February 25, 2020