Valentine’s Day Romance vs Reality and Falling Head-Over-Heels for Food!!
2/9/202644 min
Adrienne and Joe are digging into the busiest restaurant holiday of the year: Valentine’s Day. They tell us why the prix fixe menu is essential to success, operational challenges when everyone needs a two-top, and what chefs really think of the holiday. Plus, we discuss:
Special Valentine's Day menus: Expectations vs. Reality
How chefs would rather spend the holiday when they have the day off
Restaurant friendships and how to maintain your bond after someone moves on
The real drama of workplace breakups
Playing games with your fellow ch...
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First 90 secondsAdrienne Cheatham· Host0:00
[gentle music] This week on The Chef's Cut, we are pulling back the curtain on how chefs really feel about Valentine's Day in restaurants. Every year, we called it the Valentine's Day massacre. The real reason that your favorite restaurant has a special Valentine's Day menu.
Joe Flamm· Co-host0:17
The expectation from most guests is like, "It's a special day. I need a special menu."
Adrienne Cheatham· Host0:23
Right. And we reflect on how to keep the flame burning with those very special work relationships.
Joe Flamm· Co-host0:28
It's like seeing your ex with like, you know, their new person, and you're like, "Oh, really?"
Adrienne Cheatham· Host0:32
This week, we are really gonna focus on Valentine's Day, because we get a lot of questions as chefs and as people who work in the hospitality industry. A lot of people want to know, they actually care, what it's like on the other side on Valentine's Day in restaurants. My perspective is that a lot of people put pressure on celebrating it. You know- Mm ... girlfriends, boyfriends, new relationships, marriages. Some people put a lot of pressure on celebrating Valentine's Day. A lot of people do that by going somewhere to eat. That equals busy restaurants and restaurant reservations. So, you know, let's get into the weeds a little bit on Valentine's Day. And, you know I like my, my new segments and names, so in the weeds is where we're gonna go in- Where we go ... into depth on Valentine's Day.
Joe Flamm· Co-host1:29
[laughs] All right.