ABSTRACT
As you probably gleaned from the quotation in the introduction, I’m a huge Anthony Bourdain fan. But unlike Kitchen Confidential, this book isn’t about exposing the underbelly of an industry. I referenced Bourdain because he is one of the best Lean thinkers on the planet (though he is probably wholly unaware of this). He learned about Lean thinking the hard way. By conducting a retrospective analysis of why so many of the restaurants he worked in failed, and incorporating the lessons that he learned from an imposing character he refers to as Bigfoot, he came to understand what was truly required to run a successful kitchen.
