Customized Chef Mug

The Modern Kitchen Brigade Executive Chef - the top chef who manages everything to do with the kitchen, creates the menu, orders supplies, oversees the staff, communicates and reports to the owners and/or managers. Executive chefs may oversee more than one restaurant kitchen, as when there are several restaurants in a hotel or resort. Not all restaurants have a separate executive chef and chef de cuisine, defined below and an executive chef may spend much of his or her time cooking, instead of involved in administrative duties. Chef de cuisine - the kitchen chef who is the head chef of the kitchen. May report to the executive chef, or directly to the owner, if the owner maintains control of the kitchen. In some cases the executive chef and the chef de cuisine may be one and the same. Sous chef - next in line under the chef de cuisine, same as the under chef in the classic system, and in command when the head chef (or executive chef, if applicable) is not present. Oversees the preparation, portioning, and presentation fo the menu items according to the standards of the executive chef or chef de cuisine. Area chefs - these are basically the chefs de partie or station chefs, responsible for a particular area in the kitchen. Depending on how closely the kitchen follows the classic brigade, the station chefs may have line cooks under them, or line cooks and station chefs may be basically the same position. Any of the positions of the classic system are possible, such as saucier, poissonier, rotisseur, or grillardin, etc. and in modern kitchens, duties may rotate. Line cooks - works for the area chef and assigned a particular position in the assigned kitchen area. Expeditor - (aboyeur) takes orders from servers in dining room and announces them to the kitchen and facilitates the efficient coordination of each dish. May make a final check on the finished plate and apply finishing touches. Makes sure the servers deliver the plates promptly and correctly, and may deliver orders themselves, in some cases.