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The Dave Chang Show

Majordomo Post-opening Diaries, Vol. 2: Back of House | The Dave Chang Show (Ep. 35)

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Food, Arts, Society & Culture

4.88.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

As the first year of Majordomo draws to a close, Dave sits down with his key staffers at the Los Angeles restaurant to review the journey since launch. This week, he speaks with the back-of-house leaders: executive chef Jude Parra-Sickels and chef de cuisine Marc Johnson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Date Chang Show, part of the Ringer Podcast Network presented by Major

0:15.2

Doma Media.

0:16.4

This is the second part of our post-opening diaries.

0:19.0

The first one dealt with the operations of the front of the house side.

0:21.9

If you haven't listened to that one already, please go ahead and do so.

0:25.6

This episode will be speaking to the people who run the kitchen.

0:28.4

Chef Jude Paracicles and Chef Tiquizine Mark Johnson, again to reiterate, while we have

0:33.2

these titles, it's not really like exact.

0:36.7

We try to put title secondary and put doing whatever is necessary to make the restaurant

0:42.4

better first and foremost.

0:44.6

But if you're not familiar with the hierarchy of kitchens, it's a little bit similar

0:49.0

like a professional sports team, at least like a football team.

0:53.2

It all starts with like the general manager and owner.

0:56.3

And then below that, you have the head coach and below the head coach, you have offensive

1:01.2

and defensive coordinators.

1:02.6

Then you have the specialty coaches, the offensive line, the position coaches, defensive

1:08.3

linebackers, stuff like that.

1:10.5

This is all based on the old Escophier French system that has been around for many, many

1:17.6

years, which is based off the military system.

1:21.0

So a lot of these titles are still French.

1:23.8

And I think that's rapidly changing the whole system of the brigade, which is the traditional

1:28.6

French culinary team is changing slowly but surely in one of which is the meetings of

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