Forty-seven years in La Grange, Kentucky. Twenty-some managing kitchen lines. My work sits at the intersection of systems that serve people — scheduling that respects families, inventory that prevents waste, budgets that fund what matters.
This space is where I share what I've learned. Practical kitchen logistics, seasonal growing notes from my tomato and collard beds, and the occasional reflection on building community through food and order.
Patience is a structural material. An essay on brisket, the dinner line, and tending collards — with my full smoking protocol and a film to go with it.
Read the essay →The actual math I run a dinner line through — yield run-throughs, cost per portion, sell price at a target food-cost %, and the house rules that keep a neighborhood kitchen honest.
Open the coster →Prep sheets, station layout, ticket management — the backbone of a calm service.
Planting calendars, succession schedules, preservation methods for Kentucky gardens.
Notes on feeding people well — church potlucks to emergency meal coordination.
Just launched The Low & Slow Doctrine — an essay and film on patience as a structural material — alongside the Recipe Coster, my plate-build math. Next up: a prep-and-parse logging sheet you can actually stand over during a rush, and current-season notes from the collard patch.
Try the Recipe Coster Read Low & Slow About Rony