In addition to your Infusion Catering , you also act as a consultant . Tell us about some of the work you ’ ve done in that capacity . I ’ ve consulted for a number of restaurants and Food Festivals . It started in 2006 when I was in Toronto and met the then owner of Round House Restaurant in Bathsheba , Barbados Mr Bob Manley at a hotel bar watching a basketball game . He was having problems there and needed to turn things around and I offered to help . Looking back at it now , it was a monumental task . I was twenty-four , a year out of school , and here was this guy trusting my instincts , and my training sufficiently , I guess , to advise him . So , I jumped in the at the deep end and went at it . We created a whole new Inventory Control System , I wrote him a new
menu got rid of a lot of bad staff , trained the ones that were left and hired new ones , and helped him go from making a loss every month to a profit . Since then I ’ ve consulted on the Barbados Food & Wine and Rum Festival , Taste of Barbados Festival , Blue Room Bar , and the recently opened Brito ’ s Eat Fit Ave .
Any cooking tips and tricks you ’ ll like to share ? Cooking at its base is the application and control of heat . Once you understand how each cooking technique applies that heat and how to control it , then there is literally nothing you cannot do !
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