I wonder how all the complications might be explained within this analogy.
- At this restaurant the waiter cracks the eggs & mixes up the cesar dressing at the table.
- This is a new kind of a restaurant. They cook all the food in front of you on a hot plate and you interact directly with the chef. There are still waiters getting drinks and clearing plates but they don't talk to diners much so they are "officially under" the kitchen staff. Most customer interaction is done by the chef. Originally there was no back end but eventually they decided they still need one for washing dishes and cutting the ingredients into pieces that can easily be handled by a front-end chef. Since all the chefs are out front, the head waiter is in charge of the "not-a-kitchen."
- Katie is the hostess but she also makes the spicy pepper sauce because its her recipe. The head chef traditionally serves the steak supreme when anyone orders it unless when Harry's on. He just doesn't want to do it.
- This place now has 9 locations. Hot food is assembled and plated by cooks. Salads and deserts are plated by the waiters. All the actual cooking, slicing and chopping takes place in a central kitchen and gets delivered 3 times a day. The kitchen is open so "Everyone Is Front End (patent pending)" and everyone where's the same T shirt.
- At this restaurant the waiter cracks the eggs & mixes up the cesar dressing at the table.
- This is a new kind of a restaurant. They cook all the food in front of you on a hot plate and you interact directly with the chef. There are still waiters getting drinks and clearing plates but they don't talk to diners much so they are "officially under" the kitchen staff. Most customer interaction is done by the chef. Originally there was no back end but eventually they decided they still need one for washing dishes and cutting the ingredients into pieces that can easily be handled by a front-end chef. Since all the chefs are out front, the head waiter is in charge of the "not-a-kitchen."
- Katie is the hostess but she also makes the spicy pepper sauce because its her recipe. The head chef traditionally serves the steak supreme when anyone orders it unless when Harry's on. He just doesn't want to do it.
- This place now has 9 locations. Hot food is assembled and plated by cooks. Salads and deserts are plated by the waiters. All the actual cooking, slicing and chopping takes place in a central kitchen and gets delivered 3 times a day. The kitchen is open so "Everyone Is Front End (patent pending)" and everyone where's the same T shirt.